Chadwick Campbell

Chadwick Campbell is the Project Director of the You & Me Study at the Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality (CREGS), SFSU, He has worked in the fields of HIV prevention, community education, and HIV prevention research. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, and a Master of Public Health Degree in Community Health Education from San Francisco State University. Chadwick has worked mostly with black gay and bisexual men, and trans-women in HIV prevention programs and research studies. His research interests include understanding the impact of HIV/AIDS on communities of color and the socio-contextual factors that influence HIV- and STD-risk behaviors.

Now that We’re Done with the “PrEP Rally,” Some Food for Thought

I am not against PrEP. But I am against its domination of today’s HIV prevention discourse. We have huge barriers to address, and putting all of our eggs in the PrEP baskets may allow us to circumvent some of them, but without social, structural, and behavioral intervention, it will not create the real change that needs to happen in communities around the globe to address this epidemic and future ones.