Stopping HIV in the Black Community

Though African Americans have been disproportionately affected by HIV for years, much of the community seems not to have noticed. Since 1999, Phill Wilson, the founder and director of Black AIDS Institute, has worked tirelessly to make sure that HIV is on the African-American agenda. He's helped break years of silence on HIV within the black community by bringing together some of black America's most prominent leaders. What makes Phill's efforts all the more inspiring is that he is HIV positive himself -- in fact, he's been living with HIV for 26 years. In February, Phill sat down with us to talk about the current state of the black HIV epidemic in the United States and what must be done to curb the alarmingly high rates of HIV among African Americans.