You don’t hear a lot about HIV/AIDS and the impact on the Black community these days. Health officials don’t speak about it as much today like they did maybe 20, 30 years ago. What would you say has been the most vital advancements when it comes to HIV/AIDS over the last two decades, when it comes to education, treatment, prevention, outlook, outreach?
You’re right that there hasn’t been as much attention to HIV in Black communities recently. The interesting thing is it’s getting less attention, but the technology that we have, the advancements that we’ve made in HIV, have led us to a place where when we talk about HIV, we talk about ending HIV within our lifetime, which is a pretty extraordinary thing, that we have these amazing biomedical tools that theoretically could get us to the end of HIV.
Black Woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Developed the Scientific Approach to the Coronavirus Vaccine
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Published December 24, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease doctor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the African American community’s fears of accepting the new coronavirus vaccine.
“To my African American brothers and sisters … this vaccine that you’re gonna be taking was developed by an African American woman. And that is just a fact,” Dr. Fauci proclaimed during a recent National Urban League event.
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Dr. Fauci noted that Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a Black woman, has been at the forefront of the vaccine process.
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CNN s Don Lemon and Dr. Sanjay Gupta explore vaccine hesitancy in the Black community on CNN TV s The Color of Covid: The Vaccines Friday, December 18 at 10p ET. (CNN)Vaccines are on everyone s minds these days.
As the first shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are administered in the United States, and as Moderna gets closer to authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration, a recently released Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows 71% of the public says they definitely or probably would get a vaccine, up from 63% in September. Getting enough of the population vaccinated is key to achieving herd immunity and eventually returning to life as we knew it.
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