ROLE Models Project

Today we recognize National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD), a day to uplift the voices, health, and resilience of women and girls while renewing our commitment to ending HIV.

Women, especially Black women and girls, continue to face disproportionate impacts from HIV due to structural inequities, stigma, gaps in access to care, and social determinants of health. NWGHAAD reminds us that awareness alone is not enough. We must invest in prevention, expand access to testing and treatment, support PrEP and other prevention tools, and center the leadership of women and girls in the fight against HIV.

When women and girls have access to accurate information, quality health care, supportive communities, and stigma free spaces, they are empowered to protect their health and thrive. Ending HIV requires listening to their stories, amplifying their voices, and addressing the systems that shape health outcomes.

Let us continue to stand in solidarity with women and girls living with HIV, honor their strength, and commit to building healthier communities where everyone has the opportunity to live long, healthy, and fulfilled lives.

Together we move from risk to reasons, from stigma to support, and from awareness to action!

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Today we pause, reflect, and recommit.

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is more than a date on the calendar. It is a call to action. It is a moment to confront the realities our communities face, to challenge stigma, and to strengthen the systems of care, compassion, and prevention that sustain us.

Black communities continue to carry a disproportionate share of the HIV epidemic, not because of who we are, but because of inequities that have shaped access to care, education, housing, and opportunity. This day reminds us that health equity is not optional. It is essential.

Awareness must lead to action.
Action must lead to access.
Access must lead to outcomes that affirm the dignity, health, and future of Black people everywhere.

We honor the advocates, clinicians, educators, and community leaders who have carried this work for decades. We uplift the voices of those living with HIV who show us daily what resilience, strength, and truth look like. And we recommit ourselves to building a future where prevention tools are accessible, stigma is dismantled, and every person has the opportunity to live a full, healthy life.

Know your status.
Protect your health.
Support one another.
End the stigma.
End the epidemic.

Happy Black History Month!!

Black History Month is more than a reflection on the past. It is a living, breathing reminder that Black history has always been central to the story of this country and the world. Our brilliance, resilience, creativity, and resistance have shaped culture, expanded freedom, and redefined what is possible, even in the face of exclusion and injustice.

This month invites us to honor our ancestors who endured, dreamed, and built paths where none existed. It also calls us to recognize the leaders, innovators, artists, healers, and everyday people who are making history right now. Black history did not stop being written. It continues in classrooms, boardrooms, churches, community spaces, laboratories, voting booths, and homes across generations.

As we celebrate its 100th year establishment, we are reminded that remembrance is not passive. What we choose to uplift, protect, and invest in today becomes the legacy we leave behind. Black history is not only something we study. It is something we live, shape, and pass forward with intention.

May this month inspire pride in where we come from, clarity about where we are, and responsibility for where we are going. Black history is American history. Black history is world history. And Black history is being made every single day.

Happy New Year!!