People living with HIV often feel unseen. Scott Elliott, Executive Director of the Dr. Peter Centre, is working to change that. With Gilead's support, this organization is pioneering a holistic approach to #HIV treatment and care for program participants helping them to feel seen and heard. Watch the video.
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The personal journeys of six people in the United Kingdom living with HIV, hepatitis C and cancer – and the challenges they face due to stigma and health inequities – come together in the form of a new, intentionally difficult-to-read book from Gilead. Entitled “From the Margins,” each person’s experience is deliberately written around the margins of the book in order to raise awareness of what it feels like to live on the periphery of society with a chronic or life-threatening disease.
Nearly 36 years ago the AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed for the first time to memorialize and physically represent lives lost to HIV. Gilead has always actively supported the Quilt, and creating a new panel made sense for a company dedicated to helping end the HIV epidemic for everyone, everywhere.
When Shirley Cantin was a law student, about half of her classmates were women. Yet when she joined a corporate law firm, Shirley noticed that most of its leaders were white men. And when she left a decade later, little progress on the leadership team’s diversity had been made.
In the late 1980s, people in Dr. Shyam Sundar’s homeland in eastern India were dying by the hundreds of thousands of a debilitating parasitic disease known as visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
Dr. Shringar Rao’s inquisitive nature and dedication to addressing health inequities drive her eagerness to help advance innovative scientific breakthroughs. Even as an early-career researcher, she has a distinct and ambitious mission – to not lose anyone to a preventable HIV-related death – and is working with numerous other researchers in support of this goal.
Claudia Hardy says she’s found her life’s mission. As director of Community Health Access and Relations for the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham – the only National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Center in the state – she brings cancer resources and preventive care to communities in Alabama’s Black Belt like the one she grew up in.
Many teenagers have some idea of what they want to do for a career – but few are as crystal clear as Sandra Patterson was. From a young age in Guatemala, Sandra was naturally good at math and accounting, and decided she wanted to spend her life using them to solve complex issues.
As a career service member in the Navy and a travel enthusiast, Esther was an active young mother of three when she discovered a lump in her breast.
