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Ending the HIV Epidemic 2021 COVID-19 Medical Mistrust in the Meantime Spring 2021 Contents Wants to Be Your 4 6 10 12 ITMT Ending the Rising Above Dr Spring 2021 Ending the HIV Epidemic 2021 COVID-19 Medical Mistrust In The Meantime Spring 2021 Contents Wants to Be Your 4 6 10 12 ITMT Ending the Rising Above Dr. LaShonda Personal Tester Responds HIV Epidemic Spencer 18 24 28 30 A History of A Profile We Will Collective Wisdom Mistreatment in Courage Always Thrive of the Village 4 6 12 18 Message is published quarterly by In The IN THE MEANTIME Meantime Men’s Group, Inc., 2146 W. EDITOR BOARD Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018- AND OF 2039. Mailing address: Box 29861, Los Angeles, CA 90029-0861, 323-733- PUBLISHER DIRECTORS 4868, [email protected], www.inthemeantimemen.org, Jeffrey C. King Joel Byrd, M.D. Facebook @ inthemeantimemen Gary Houston ART Get Te st ed © 2021 In The Meantime Men’s Group, Inc. Stewart Jones All rights reserved. DIRECTOR Jeffrey C. King The slogan “Creating Unity and Affirming Alan Bell Earl Wooten Instant HIV Test Results Available in 1 Minute Our Common Bond” is a trademark of In The Meantime Men’s Group, Inc. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are PHOTOGRAPHY ON not necessarily those of ITMT. Publication of the name or photograph of a person Alan Bell THE 818-441-1216 or 323-733-4868 does not indicate the sexual orientation COVER or HIV status of the person or necessarily Jeff Gritchen constitute an endorsement of ITMT or Dr. LaShonda Spencer In The Meantime Wellness its policies. Message is designed for 2146 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018 educational purposes only and is not engaged in rendering medical advice or InTheMeantimeMen.org professional services. Some photographs in this publication use professional models. Spring 21 MESSAGE 3 YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL ITMT Responds Community Resources Address Both HIV and COVID Pandemics By Jeffrey C. King elcome to In The Meantime 2021. Let’s celebrate today BoiRevolution Was we begin to create the world we desire to live in. LA’S HOTTEST URBAN SOCIAL CLUB Today, In The Meantime has answered the call from the commu- Young Black Gay Men 18-29 Years of age nity. We asked you what was most f @BoiRevolution2017 I @inthemeantimemen important to you, and you responded with the following: 323-733-4868 1 We will continue our grab- and-go food service and plan to expand this service for one additional day per week. We will provide Quarterly Social Events you with an update by the end of February. Community Outreach/Condom Distribution 2 The Young Black Gay Men’s Task Force identified housing, mental health, and substance abuse treat- MyLife MyStyle Health Education Empowerment Series ment as the three top issues faced seling sessions, closed group-level by them and their peers. Today, ITMT interventions, and more. offers transitional housing support, 6 Our staple Brothers Reaching Throw It In The Bag mental health services, and sub- Brothers Social Discussion Group has Drop-In Social Discussion Groups stance abuse education and linkage developed a social media life of its services as an answer to your call. own, and is now hosted on Zoom. 3 In The Meantime has ramped LIFE 7 Free condoms and lube are Personal and Professional Development Trainings up its efforts to provide free protective provided upon request and are made gear, including masks, hand sanitizer, available every Tuesday night 5-7 p.m. and gloves. during our grab-and-go give out. The Bridge 4 Our HIV outreach and preven- We are grateful to everyone who Resource Linkage and Referral Service tion capacity efforts have expanded supported our fundraising efforts as we remain committed to providing for the King-Bremond Scholarship HIV testing, STD linkage, and medical In The Meantime Get Tested Fund. We can now start the year with HIV Testing and STI Screenings/Peer Navigation linkage to care services. resources to support those seeking to 5 Our seven-layered My Life My advance themselves through higher Style intervention for young Black gay education. This project is supported by funds received from the U.S. Centers men has been converted to an online for Disease Control and Prevention and the County of Los Angeles Department protocol to include telemedicine and Jeffrey C. King is Founder and Executive of Public Health, Division of HIV and STD Programs case management, one-on-one coun- Director of In The Meantime Men’s Group. 4 MESSAGE Spring 21 Ending the HIV Epidemic A Plan for America nding the HIV Epidemic: infrastructure of many HHS agencies A Plan for America (EHE) is and offices. In its first phase, the ini- E a bold plan that aims to end tiative is focusing on areas where HIV the HIV epidemic in the United transmission occurs most frequently, States by 2030. In the State of the providing 57 geographic focus areas Union Address on February 5, 2019, with a rapid infusion of additional re- Geographic Hotspots: The 48 counties, plus Washington, DC, and San Juan, PR, where President Donald J. Trump announced sources, expertise, and technology to >50% of HIV diagnoses occurred in 2016 and 2017, and an additional seven states with a his Administration’s goal to end the develop and implement locally tailored substantial number of HIV diagnoses in rural areas. HIV epidemic in the United States EHE plans. within 10 years. EHE is the operational plan developed by agencies across HIV in America of access to HIV prevention, testing, the U.S. Department of Health and Goal and treatment; and a lack of aware- Human Services (HHS) to pursue that The new initiative seeks to reduce HIV has cost America too much ness that HIV remains a significant goal. the number of new HIV infections in for too long and remains a significant public health threat. The plan leverages critical sci- the United States by 75 percent within public health issue: entific advances in HIV prevention, five years, and then by at least 90 per- • More than 700,000 American Right Data and diagnosis, treatment, and outbreak cent within 10 years, for an estimated lives have been lost to HIV since 1981. response by coordinating the highly 250,000 total HIV infections averted. • More than 1.1 million Ameri- Right Tools cans are currently living with HIV and successful programs, resources, and Data tell us that most new many more are at risk of HIV infection. infections occur in a limited num- • While new HIV diagnoses ber of counties and among specific have declined significantly from their populations, giving us the information peak, progress on further reducing needed to target our efforts to those them has stalled with an estimated locales that will make the biggest 40,000 Americans being newly diag- impact on ending the HIV epidemic. nosed each year. Without interven- Further, today we have the tools tion another 400,000 Americans will available to end the HIV epidemic. be newly diagnosed over 10 years Landmark biomedical and scientific despite the available tools to prevent research advances have led to the transmissions. development of many successful HIV • The U.S. government spends treatment regimens, prevention strat- $20 billion in annual direct health egies, and improved care for persons expenditures for HIV prevention and living with HIV. Notably: care. • Thanks to advances in anti- • There is a real risk of an HIV retroviral therapy, the medicine used resurgence due to several factors, to treat HIV, individuals with HIV who including trends in injection drug use; take their medicine as prescribed and, HIV-related stigma; homophobia; lack 6 MESSAGE Spring 21 Spring 21 MESSAGE 7 as a result, maintain an undetectable viral load can live long, healthy lives Whole-of-Society and have effectively no risk of sexually Initiative transmitting HIV to a partner. Achieving EHE’s goals will require • We have proven models of ef- a whole-of-society effort. In addition fective HIV care and prevention based to the coordination across federal on more than two decades of experi- agencies, the success of this initia- ence engaging and retaining patients tive will also depend on dedicated in effective care. partners working at all sectors of • Pre-exposure prophylaxis society, including people with HIV or (PrEP), a daily regimen of two oral at risk for HIV; city, county, tribal, and antiretroviral drugs in a single pill, has state health departments and other proven to be highly effective in pre- agencies; local clinics and healthcare venting HIV infection for individuals at facilities; healthcare providers; provid- high risk, reducing the risk of acquir- ers of medication-assisted treatment ing HIV by up to 97 percent. for opioid use disorder; professional • New laboratory and epidemio- associations; advocates; community- end the HIV epidemic in the U.S.: Di- And stigma—which can be a logical techniques allow us to pinpoint and faith-based organizations; and agnose, Treat, Prevent, and Respond. debilitating barrier preventing people where HIV infections are spreading academic and research institutions, living with, or at risk for, HIV from re- most rapidly so health officials can among others. Engagement of com- Funding ceiving the health care, services, and respond swiftly with resources to stop munity in developing and implement- respect they need and deserve—still the further spread of new transmis- ing jurisdictional EHE plans as well as The Administration and Congress tragically surrounds HIV. Responding sions. in the planning, design, and delivery have approved additional resources to HIV is not just a biomedical issue, With these powerful data and of local HIV prevention and care to begin this multiyear initiative fo- but a social challenge, too. tools, we have a once-in-a-generation services are vital to the initiative’s cused on ending the HIV epidemic in Effective interventions have driv- opportunity to end the HIV epidemic.
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