News 2012
WHO: Contraceptive Advice Not Changed—Dual Protection Urged
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Al Brown: Creating Mentors, Paying It Forward
One in an occasional series about members of the Black Treatment Advocates Network, a collaborative of HIV/AIDS advocates who connect Black people living with HIV/AIDS to care and treatment, strengthen Black leaders, and advocate for change in policy and research priorities.
Michael Jai White: Actor, Fighter, Educator
The Transformative Power of Prayer
Praying Through the Night has been the signature event of The National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS at Metropolitan Interdenominational Church for almost two decades. Every year in the Nashville-Davidson county (Tennessee) area, 12 congregations from across the faith community share in an all-night prayer vigil focused on HIV/AIDS. Characteristic of the brilliant vision God gave to National Week of Prayer founder, Pernessa Seele, during Praying Through the Night, we set doctrinal, theological and faith differences aside to pray for the elimination of the scourge of HIV/AIDS that has affected our people.
It's Time to Turn Down the Volume
Being both black and gay can be, well, interesting. But rarely has this dual identity manifested itself as dramatically as during the current controversy between the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and the Black TV and radio commentator Roland Martin.
- Brian White: Actor, Author, Activist
- Ask the Doctor: How Can You Prevent HIV-Related Peripheral Neuropathy?
- The Black AIDS Institute Issues 8th Annual State of AIDS in Black America Report, Says That the Tools Now Exist to End the Epidemic
- Road to AIDS 2012: A Series of Town Hall Meetings--Birmingham, Ala.