Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, speaks at the White House LGBT Conference on HIV/AIDS at Morehouse School of Medicine, Thursday, April 19, 2012 (Photo courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine).
Last month, the White House Office of Public Engagement and Office of National AIDS Policy partnered with Morehouse School of Medicine to host the White House LGBT Conference on HIV/AIDS in Atlanta, Georgia. Hundreds of advocates, community organizers, health care providers, elected officials, and interested members of the public joined Obama Administration officials in Atlanta for an important conversation on the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
There have been tremendous advances in HIV testing and treatment. But there is still much work to do: there are nearly 50,000 new HIV infections in the United States each year. Among these new infections, nearly two-thirds are among men who have sex with men, with infection rates the highest among black men. And gay men are 44 times more likely to be HIV-infected compared to other men in the United States.
