Snoop Dogg Supports GLAAD’s HIV Prevention Panel At HBCU

Last Updated on November 7, 2025 8:17 PM CST

Snoop Dogg made an appearance at Jackson State University in support of an HIV prevention event. GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, hosted a panel as part of its “Generation Z and HIV: Human Issue. Southern Solution. An HBCU Tour.” The rapper highlighted the importance of prevention and addressed past controversial comments about LGBTQ+ representation in entertainment.

At the panel, Snoop Dogg sat down for a conversation with Darian Aaron, GLAAD’s Director of Local News: U.S. South.

A disease shows no prejudice,” the rapper said. “The best thing you can do is get protected, find more information.”

Aaron added the importance of the tour in helping share life-saving information with students.

“HIV in Black communities is far from over, and Black people in the South, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, or number of total partners, remain at disproportionate risk,” he said. “The tour will help inform and protect students with essential knowledge about HIV, including that it is preventable with an injection or daily pill, as well as survivable and untransmittable when properly treated.”

The highest rates of new HIV diagnoses are in the South, with Black/African Americans and Hispanic/Latino people making up 70% of estimated new HIV infections in 2022. GLAAD also shared that 37% of people aged between 18 and 26 feel knowledgeable about HIV.

“HIV is nearly 100% preventable through knowledge, access, and care, yet the youngest generations remain starkly unaware of the basic facts that can protect them,” Aaron said. “The HBCU Tour is one way GLAAD is arming those most at risk with the information necessary to safeguard their health.”

Snoop Dogg emphasized the importance of prevention but also information about HIV as he shared his own experience with disinformation about the disease during the 1980s.

“How do you treat it [HIV]? How do you prevent it? Hopefully, in 2025, there will be more information,” the rapper said. “There was no medical information to let us know what was going on. We were so scared, we stopped everything.”