News 2012
Community Mobilization with African American Youth: The Black AIDS Institute’s African American HIV University (AAHU) Class of 2011
March 15, 2012
11:00 a.m. PST (2:00 p.m. ET)
The Black AIDS Institute would like to invite you to a webinar on community mobilization with recent graduates of the African American HIV University Community Mobilization College (AAHU CMC).
Commemorating National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Since the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women have been infected and affected disproportionately. Of the more than 1.1 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS today, almost 30 percent are women. And 57 percent of new infections among women occur among Black women.
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Where We Enter: Black Women and HIV-Prevention Research
Only the Black woman can say ‘when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole…race enters with me.’ – Anna Julia Cooper, born enslaved in 1852 but in 1924, the fourth Black American woman to earn a doctorate degree
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Confronting Stigma in African and Caribbean Immigrant Communities
On May 18, 2011, the New York Post decided to publish an "exclusive" article titled, "Hotel Maid in HIV Shock." The article covered emerging details surrounding the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual-assault case.
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The Power of Sharing Our Stories
After learning that I was HIV positive, I realized that I wouldn't survive long unless I confronted the mental anguish that my diagnosis had caused. Like so many people with HIV (or whose loved ones are HIV positive), I felt depressed, anxious and generally bad about myself and assumed that other people would think negatively of me.