Resource Topic: Stigma

Real Talk, Real Impact: HIV Prevention and Sex Work

This webinar explores the intersection of sex work, access to healthcare, and community safety. Participants will learn practical strategies for building trust, engaging respectfully, and supporting autonomy while working to reduce stigma and create safer, more inclusive service environments.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe key structural factors that affect the health and well-being of sex workers
  • Identify effective approaches for building trust and rapport
  • Describe safety-focused engagement strategies for working in community settings

Faculty: Kaniya Walker

Ending the HIV Epidemic by Being the Change You Seek

This webinar provides participants with an overview of HIV criminalization laws and data, along with strategies for combating HIV stigma and advocating for decriminalization.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:

  • Define HIV criminalization and identify the data that is most alarming.
  • Explain five reasons why criminalization is a problem.
  • Describe the nuances of strategy vs. implementation in legislative success.

About the Speaker:

Living with Black Girl Magic, HIV, and chronic optimism, Kamaria Laffrey serves nationally as a speaker, advocate, and Co-Managing Director for HIV policy reform with The SERO Project, and a spokesperson for treatment adherence and self-care campaign Positively Fearless with Janssen. Her local work extends to rural and underserved areas, as she serves on the FL Dept. of Health Community HIV Advisory Group and is a member of the West Central FL Ryan White Care Council. She also co-leads the FL HIV Justice Coalition to modernize laws that criminalize Floridians for their HIV status. In these roles, Kamaria believes that when she represents PLHIV she is lifting Black women living with HIV, their presence is visible, and their power is not denied.

Please note that continuing education credits are not available for this session.