Clark Atlanta University
Hosts
Annual LIFE AIDS Black Student Summit
February 5-7
Students from across the country representing historically Black colleges and universities will converge on the Clark Atlanta University campus on February 5 to 7 for the annual LIFE AIDS Black Student Mobilization Summit. The summit is sponsored by the Black AIDS Institute and the Magic Johnson Foundation in conjunction with the Act Against AIDS campaign, a CDC HIV/AIDS public awareness campaign.
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President Urges HIV Testing Obama Releases Video on HIV Testing Day June 2009
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Greater Than AIDSSM,
a new national movement seeks to inspire hope and promote the possibility of change in the AIDS epidemic facing Black America through the united actions of individuals, families and communities.
BLACK AIDS INSTITUTE is proud to support Greater Than Aids.
More illness. Even though blacks (including African Americans) account for about 13% of the US population, they account for about half (49%) of the people who get HIV and AIDS.
Shorter survival times. Blacks with AIDS often don’t live as long as people of other races and ethnic groups with AIDS.This is due to the barriers mentioned above.
More deaths. For African Americans and other blacks, HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of death.
Report reveals the U.S. AIDS epidemic is 40 % greater than previously believed. And the Black community again paces the nation in all key statistical categories.
Lenee graduated from Virginia State University in 2006. She now lives and works in Washington DC, where she just
completed training to become a risk reduction counselor in the HIV/AIDS area.
While a student at Virginia State University, Lenee Richards had the opportunity to listen to a guest speaker share her experience living with AIDS. Her story was so inspiring it ignited a sense of
responsibility within Lenee to spread awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic to her peers, and
beyond.” Read more
"All of the Above"
Victoria Kirby Howard
University
She received her B.S. in speech and applied communications in May 2009.
A major concern for Victoria is the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community. “Black people have to come together. We need to talk about it and not around it.” Read more
The “Truth” about why Black AIDS groups struggle for funding and what we can do about it.
Ledge speaks with Jamil Fletcher, leading fundraising expert. Funding is the life’s blood of all non-profits. For Black AIDS groups, it is a never-ending, uphill battle. Ledge had the opportunity to speak with Jamil Flecther, one of the nation’s leading development experts, on why this is the case and what we can do about it.
Young Black Men are Precious, Too Opinion Editorial by Phill Wilson
"My recent op-ed piece entitled "Precious, and a Princess" kicked up a firestorm. Some readers were offended because I compared the lives of some young Black women to the life of Claireece "Precious" Jones in Lee Daniels's film Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire--even though many Black females live under the burdens of poverty, domestic violence, molestation and, yes, HIV infection.
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