The Audacity of Hope: Stories of Resilience and Empowerment | World AIDS Day 2024
Relive The Audacity of Hope, a powerful webinar hosted on December 9, 2024, in honor of World AIDS Day. This thought-provoking event provided a platform for people living with HIV to reclaim their narratives and highlighted the transformative power of hope.
Through open dialogue, personal stories, and expert insights, the webinar celebrated the resilience, strength, and worthiness of those affected by HIV, fostering community, empowerment, and optimism for the future.
Panelists
- Paul Aguilar
- Tom Villa
- Rebecca Denison
- Moderated by Morris Singletary and Alecia Tramel-McIntyre
This event was hosted in partnership with the HOPE Collaboratory and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
About the HOPE Collaboratory
The HIV Obstruction by Programmed Epigenetics (HOPE) Collaboratory is led by researchers at Gladstone Institutes, University of Florida, and Weill Cornell Medicine. It also includes members from Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology in Germany, the US Military HIV Research Program, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, UC Berkeley, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, the Makerere University Walter Reed Project in Uganda, and Lakehead University in Canada. The HOPE Collaboratory is supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number UM1AI164559.
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