30 min

Toni Newman on why HIV is hitting Black women disproportionately hard For The Win

    • Politics

Now that Republicans have a new speaker, they are going to try pushing through the harsh cuts to federal funding for HIV prevention and treatment that they've been threatening for months. Here’s the surprising thing: that would hit Black women harder than any other. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Toni Newman, a leading HIV advocate, to talk about why Black women have the highest HIV rates in the country and what can be done to prevent the epidemic from ravaging them even more harshly.

Now that Republicans have a new speaker, they are going to try pushing through the harsh cuts to federal funding for HIV prevention and treatment that they've been threatening for months. Here’s the surprising thing: that would hit Black women harder than any other. On our newest episode, Jasmine and Yochi sit down with Toni Newman, a leading HIV advocate, to talk about why Black women have the highest HIV rates in the country and what can be done to prevent the epidemic from ravaging them even more harshly.

30 min