Racial Disparities in Health Care Headlines UVA Symposium: A nine-member panel discussion on HIV/AIDS by community activists and health care providers last week ended the three-day Symposium on Race and Society hosted by the University of Virginia Health System designed to call attention to the issue of health disparities in the United States.
A crowd of about 150 community members, and UVA faculty and students filled Jordan Hall Conference Center Auditorium to hear the professionals field questions such as what barriers prevent people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS from taking their medication. What inhibited people with a diagnosis from disclosing their disease to others? And how to fight the secrecy that surrounds the disease and helps it spread throughout the community?
