This interactive webinar will define trauma and explore trauma-informed care approaches. It will also help the participant to recognize signs of trauma and the effects of trauma on preventing, testing, and treating HIV. It has been demonstrated that trauma-informed care improves health and allows for a comprehensive and holistic approach to various treatments, including HIV. We will discuss the importance of developing HIV treatment programming that considers all the needs of those most at risk to assist in treatment, testing, and prevention effectively.

This presentation will discuss the disparities between HIV & Homelessness; treatment and suppression challenges in this population; and how to reach Millennials & Gen Z

This highly interactive workshop explores the historical context of Black women, their sexual image, sexuality, and how it impacts HIV prevention. This workshop will explore the sexual pleasure of Black women and how it can be integrated into the HIV prevention landscape. Lastly, the workshop will explore the solutions to including Black women in culturally relevant HIV prevention and linkage to care from a sex-positive pleasure-focused perspective.

Presenters Kamaria Laffrey and Lashanda Salinas will outline for participants what HIV criminalization looks like beyond the courtroom, how a person living with HIV is faced with a lifetime of ramifications from the criminal justice system which further perpetuates stigma. Lashanda will be sharing her personal lived experience as a survivor of HIV criminalization and explain to participants that they care about HIV criminalization, they just may not know it yet.