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Jaguar Health Subsidiary Napo Pharmaceuticals to Host HIV Activism Digital Summit December 13, 2019 at 3 p.m. Eastern
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 10, 2019 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAGX) ("Jaguar" or the "Company"), today announced that the Company's
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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 10, 2019 / Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAGX) (\"Jaguar\" or the \"Company\"), today announced that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (\"Napo\"), is hosting an HIV Activism Digital Summit on Friday, December 13, 2019 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. The summit will feature commentary by prominent HIV advocates Bruce Richman, Maria Mejia, and Ken Williams (AKA Ken Like Barbie), as well as by Jaguar CEO Lisa Conte and Napo employee Brian Coppedge. Josh Robbins will serve as the host of the event, which will be the first completely digital, activist-led virtual program in the HIV community and is intended to continue fostering the important conversations needed to address living with HIV and living with comorbidities like HIV-associated diarrhea. To sign up for free to view the live summit, visit https://napopharma.com/summit. The discussion can be viewed on Napo's Facebook page (facebook.com/napopharma), Napo's website (https://napopharma.com/summit) and on Crowdcast (https://www.crowdcast.io/e/hivsummit).\"We are very proud that Napo's first HIV Activism Digital Summit will feature such extraordinary activists,\" Robbins commented. \"These powerhouse advocates comprise an HIV activism dream team because of their incredible work that continues to lead to real change for people living with HIV.\"Richman, who will serve as the summit's keynote speaker, is the founding executive director of the Prevention Access Campaign and the \"Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U)\" campaign. He has worked in global philanthropy for over two decades developing foundations, cause-marketing and grantmaking programs, social marketing campaigns, and interventions on a range of issues including HIV stigma and prevention. Richman was honored for his work with U=U as Healthline's HIV influencers \"2017 Person of the Year\" and named Plus Magazine \"#1 Most Amazing HIV+ People of 2018\". He received his Ed.M. in Administration, Planning & Social Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.Diagnosed with HIV in 1991, Mejia has since become a tireless advocate for people living with HIV. She is a global ambassador for The Well Project, an international nonprofit for women and girls with HIV, the founder of two international Facebook support grou...