Tori Cooper is the first out Black transgender woman to be appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. One of her priorities is 'to be a voice for trans people, gender-nonbinary people and gender-expansive people.'
Cooper said one of her priorities as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS is “to be a voice for trans people.”Tori Cooper said the first time she used her voice as an advocate was about 20 years ago, when she worked on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program called. She and another transgender advocate adapted the HIV risk-reduction program meet the unique needs of trans women.
“One of many priorities I have is certainly to be a voice for trans people, gender-nonbinary people and gender-expansive people, making sure that our voices are heard,” she said. “And simply making sure that all policies that we’re looking at are inclusive of folks and that the HIV movement takes a much more inclusive and diverse trajectory moving forward.”Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS found that transgender people are 49 times more likely to be living with HIV.
The institute's We the People campaign, a Black strategy to end HIV, found that addressing HIV disparities means addressing “those structural determinants of health that we’ve seen throughout the Covid epidemic, how Black and brown folks are disproportionately affected, and the same thing exists with HIV.”
For the same reason, he said it’s important that PACHA includes diverse voices such as Cooper's and Black AIDS Institute CEO Raniyah Copeland, who has also been appointed to the presidential council. Whether trans people can access routine health care affects whether they can, or will, access HIV prevention and care, she said.
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