News 2011
Back-Up Plans For The Individual Mandate?
What happens if the health law's individual mandate -- the provision that requires almost all Americans to obtain health insurance or face a penalty -- is overturned by the Supreme Court?
HBCU b Healthy Tour Hits the Road!
Greater Than AIDS and b Condoms are teaming up this fall to bring HIV awareness to the mid-Atlantic, South, and Southeast through the HBCU b Healthy Tour. The HBCU b Healthy Tour aims to inspire, unite, and leverage attendance at HBCU campuses, football classics, and homecomings to promote health and wellness, raise awareness about health disparities, and encourage testing for illnesses that are common within minority communities.
In This Issue
Once for president of New York City's largest borough—Manhattan—and then one of the first Black women to run for mayor of that city, C. Virginia Fields now runs one of the most important organizations in the Black AIDS movement: the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS. This week writer Candace Y.A. Montague interviews Ms. Fields about NBLCA's conclave in Washington, D.C.
Q&A: C. Virginia Fields, AIDS Movement Leader and Power Broker
C. Virginia Fields, CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA), is standing tall these days as her organization makes waves in the fight against AIDS. Here, the former Manhattan borough president shares what happened at NBLCA's conclave in Washington, D.C., this spring, how it is working with Southern churches and what is coming soon from the organization.
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Google+: A primer for the HIV/AIDS Community
Google+ was released to a limited audience (in beta) on June 28, 2011 and has received a lot of attention since then. Within the first month, over 10 million people signed up to try it out. You may have seen the +1 logo which is similar to the “like” on Facebook, but what’s it really about?