The Jacques Initiative

04/14/2026

The Jacques Initiative joins Baltimore Safe Haven for National Transgender HIV Testing Day on Wednesday, April 15, showing up for our community with real resources and real talk. See you there!

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Your status is your power. 💙🩷🤍
On National Transgender HIV Testing Day, we're doing what we always do — showing up for our community with real resources, real panelists, and real talk.
Trans women deserve spaces where their health, their lives, and their stories are centered. Wednesday, April 15 is that space.
Join us for a trans woman-centered panel on HIV testing, owning your status, and thriving on your own terms — featuring Renee Lau, Arielle Stewart, JaNae Tyler, and Rhonda Carr. Four women showing up and speaking truth.
✨ Free HIV testing on-site
🍽️ Free food
💬 Real conversation. Real community.
📅 Wednesday, April 15
🕙 Doors open at 10:45 AM | 11AM–2PM
📍 814 N. Collington Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205
Come as you are. Tag someone who needs to be in that room. 👇
Presented by Baltimore Safe Haven, in partnership with Gilead Sciences.
🔗 baltimoresafehaven.org
"We Are Community. We Won't Be Erased."

02/19/2026

It’s Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! 💚🤍🖤
Held each year during the first full week after Valentine’s Day, this week celebrates people who experience little or no romantic attraction.
The aromantic spectrum is diverse — and so are the ways people love, connect, and build meaningful lives. Friendship, chosen family, community, and queerplatonic relationships are just as valid and powerful as romance.
Let’s challenge the idea that romantic love is the “default” or ultimate goal. 💚🤍🖤

12/06/2025

As we end the first week of , we’re excited to share a new episode of the podcast!

This week, we talk with The Thrive Program Baltimore’s Eric Anderson and Robyn Palmerio about the power of patient-centered care. Their passion and dedication remind us what World AIDS Awareness Month is all about: compassion, connection, and community.

🎧 Listen to the episode and join us in honoring this month of awareness and action.
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12/01/2025

The IAS Person-Centred Care (PCC) programme improves health services by prioritizing the integration of health concerns and the responsiveness of healthcare ...

12/01/2025

Today on World AIDS Day, we join the global call to “Overcome Disruption and Transform the AIDS Response.” At IHV, we’re proud to support research, innovation, and community partnerships that move us closer to ending HIV for good.

11/18/2025

Sierra Cary-Brown of the Institute of Human Virology The Jacques Initiative, presented “Spilling the Tea on HIV Prevention: Co-Designing Wellness in Baltimore's Black Salons” at the American Public Health Association 2025 Annual Meeting. https://vist.ly/4d8p3

The Tea Talk Project uses trusted community spaces, such as beauty salons, as platforms for health promotion in Baltimore https://www.jacques.ihv.org/teatalk/

10/20/2025

The BOYZ are BACK! Join us for a night of celebration and transmasculine community. Crafts, snacks and good times will be provided, guaranteed!

Masks will be provided but are not mandatory. Please stay home if you're sick.

12/11/2025 5pm-9pm
Peabody Heights Brewery Pennant Room
401 E 30th St. Baltimore MD 21218

09/24/2025

Calling ALL beauty and grooming professionals.

Join us at The Beauty Hub and sip on some hot tea!
Chat with us about pleasure, protection, and health and how you could help the women in your chairs and in your community. Your clients lean on you for support. Come to Tea Talk so you can give them all you've got!

09/19/2025

🎙Walker Weinstein, RN, a Baltimore native with the Jacques Initiative, shares how his roots shaped his path into HIV care and the challenges patients face accessing treatment on Institute of Human Virology new podcast.
Walker reminds us our patients aren’t statistics but community members we’re honored to serve.

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09/17/2025

WE'RE HIRING!

Join our team to lead community outreach and coordinate linkage to care services for individuals living with HIV. Help connect people to vital resources, build trust, and support health equity.

09/15/2025

Beauty professionals, we’re spilling the tea at The Beauty Hub. Bring your cup to catch this heat!

Learn the latest on sexual health, get real about pleasure, protection, and prevention, and own your role as a frontline educator!

Hosted by The Beauty Hub & The JACQUES Initiative, this is where glam meets grit. No fluff. No shame. Just facts, empowerment, and community.

08/25/2025

Beauty professionals, you already change lives - now let’s save them too.
You’re not just stylists, barbers, estheticians… you’re trusted voices, community leaders, and lowkey health heroes.

DM us or call us to get trained up on sexual health

Let’s make health part of the glow-up.