Featuring

• [Moderator] Chelsea Boyd, Resident Research Fellow, Integrated Harm Reduction, R Street Institute

• Toni Newman, Director, Coalition for Justice and Equality Across Movements, and Acting Director, Training Center to End the Epidemic, NMAC

• Sen. Megan Hunt, Nebraska Unicameral Legislature

• Katherine Wells, Director of Public Health, City of Lubbock, Texas

Overview:

How can we persuade the public and reluctant policymakers to continue the work to end the domestic HIV epidemic? The federal goal of 90 percent reduction of new HIV infections in the United States by 2030 cannot be achieved without increased focus on communities that are most at risk. But this unevenly distributed risk can lead to an “it won’t happen to me” mindset and to deprioritization of the issue among the general population and policymakers. Join us for a conversation with people on the frontlines of the work to end the HIV epidemic. We’ll hear how they persuade skeptical audiences that HIV still matters and why prioritizing populations most vulnerable to HIV infection results in good outcomes for all of us.