‘Even Me 2.0’ Shines Light on HIV’s Disproportionate Toll on Black Women and Older Adults

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent

A decade after its acclaimed debut, the award-winning documentary Even Me returns with a powerful sequel, Even Me 2.0: Unfinished Business. Debuting on Prime, the new film revisits the lives of older African American women living with HIV, an often-overlooked group at the center of a crisis that still grips Black communities across the United States.

Created by San Diego State University researcher and filmmaker Dr. Megan Ebor, Even Me 2.0 follows a suspenseful journey to reconnect with the original cast, capturing the emotional and, at times, heartbreaking outcomes of their stories. The film provides a rare longitudinal lens into the evolving HIV epidemic and confronts the persistent stigma and systemic inequities that cont