Module Category: Stigma

Stronger Futures: Re-Entry Support for Black Women with HIV

This powerful webinar spotlights the resilience of Black women living with HIV as they return to their communities after involvement in the justice system. This engaging session will uncover how stigma, systemic inequities, and gaps in care shape health outcomes, while also lifting up real-world strategies that work. Participants will leave inspired with tools and best practices to expand access to care, strengthen support systems, and amplify the voices and experiences of Black women at the center of this conversation.

Engaging African Immigrants in HIV Prevention and Care

Engaging African Immigrants in HIV Prevention and Care is a self-paced e-learning course designed to equip healthcare and service providers with culturally responsive strategies to improve HIV prevention, testing, and care engagement among African immigrant communities. The course explores social determinants of health, stigma, migration-related barriers, and trust-building approaches. Through expert insights and practical tools, learners will enhance their ability to deliver affirming, community-centered services that reflect the unique needs and strengths of African immigrant populations.

Opportunities and Barriers to Transgender & Nonbinary Healthcare Equity and Inclusion Excellence

Despite advances in gender-affirming care and growing acceptance of gender diversity, transgender and nonbinary (TNB) people continue to experience barriers to inclusive care, such as stigma and social determinants of health. This webinar will familiarize Washington, DC providers with culturally-responsive and equitable healthcare for TNB patients. The faculty will review best practices for improved health outcomes among TNB people in order to reduce health disparities that affect the transgender population. Implementation of these practices will also contribute to higher retention in care at your organization.

This course is jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and HealthHIV.

The Trans Experience: Pride in Our Health

Transgender and gender-diverse people seek preventive health care and health screenings less often than do other people due to a variety of factors including lack of insurance coverage, being refused care, difficulty finding a health care provider with expertise in transgender care or fear of discrimination in a health care setting. This webinar will address the need for accurate comprehensive data on transgender health, as well as how to provide specialized, culturally competent care to transgender individuals in a non-stigmatizing environment.

Faculty

Jasmine Ford LPN, BA, HIV Care Services Clinical Coordinator, VDH

Earline Budd, Non Medical Case Management Specialist, HIPS

Panelists

Sherri Meeks, Whitman-Walker

Tyree Williams, Brothers of Bonds

Kaniya Walker, Heart to Hand

Achim Howard, Trans Men Rising

Kym Gordon, Damien Ministries

Addressing Stigma and Stigmatizing Language in the Workplace

Stigma is one of the biggest challenges in HIV prevention and care. The negative, often subliminal, impact of stigmatizing language can leave people living with HIV feeling “less-than.” Stigmatization can be eliminated through the combined efforts of clinical and non-clinical staff, the community, and even patients by learning and integrating improved terminology.
This thought-provoking webinar addresses stigmatizing language used when talking about HIV, mental health, and substance use disorders and how this language perpetuates bias in the workplace.