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.

This presentation discusses realities of Sex Workers, differences between trafficking and consensual engagement and harm reduction in the profession.

During this presentation, we will examine vaccination rollouts of Hepatitis A, Meningococcal disease, and Monkeypox this year across the U.S. We will discuss what key insights we have learned, and what public health strategies from these rollouts could be used to minimize new HIV cases and the stigma surrounding HIV.