This program, presented by Helena Kwakwa, MD is open to all case managers and their supervisors funded by AACO.

Social Work credits will be offered.

Participants will be able to : 

-Define health inequity, health disparity and health equity.

-Review the diverse ways in which black women in the US identify, encompassing their daily realities and lived experiences. 

-Examine the social determinants, health inequities and disparities that disproportionately affect Black cisgender women and Black transgender women as related to HIV and other comorbidities.

-Address the ways in which those stressors uniquely experienced by Black women can impact individual and collective mental health.

-Identify the qualities to look for in a health care provider/clinician to best meet the needs of Black women living with HIV.