Dr. Finkel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She has been a community medical provider for more 16 years and has coordinated community care for diverse populations at risk, including immigration detainees, LGBQT marginally housed youth and persons who use drugs. She has served as a Principal and co-investigator in the Rutgers NIH sponsored HIV Clinical Trials Unit in both treatment and prevention trials. A member of the Ending the HIV Epidemic working group of the HIV Medicine Association, which produces this blog, she answered questions from Science Speaks the challenges the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the administration’s initiative to stop HIV transmissions among some of the most affected areas.