News 2013
Join Our Train-the Trainer Webinar Series and Become Brown-Bag-Lunch Leader
The Black AIDS Institute invites you to engage in the Train-the-Trainer webinars and the Brown Bag Lunch series. The Train-the-Trainer Webinars are a seven-segment series that aims to improve HIV care and treatment through training, networking, and mobilization. Participants, who will be called “Brown Bag Lunch Leaders,” will attend four trainings and implement four educational and/or advocacy events locally.
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What's ‘Sequestration’ Mean in Real Life?
With politicians and pundits throwing around words like “sequestration” and debating the arcana of federal budgeting, it can be tough to grasp what’s at stake for real people and their communities. It doesn’t help when some in the debate are deliberately confusing the matter. But let’s be clear: The $1.1 trillion in automatic spending cuts that are set to begin next week constitute a nuclear bomb that’s poised to go off in communities of color.
Hospital Executive Bracing For Budget Cuts Says ‘We Need To Deal With Medicare’
David P. Blom is one of thousands of hospital executives across the country who are bracing for a reduction in Medicare payments as part of a series of federal spending cuts that begin Friday. Blom, 58, is president and chief executive officer of OhioHealth, a Columbus, Ohio, based not-for-profit health care system that includes 18 hospitals, 23 health and surgery centers, home-health providers and other facilities.
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Budget Sequestration Will Undermine the Fight Against HIV in Black America
On Friday, federal budget sequestration went into effect. This will result in across-the-board cuts of 5.3 percent in most non-defense discretionary programs, including Ryan White, HIV prevention, HIV research, AIDS housing support, and prevention and treatment programs for people with substance abuse problems.[i] By withholding vital funding from essential HIV programs that have seen minimal increases in recent years, these looming cuts will undermine efforts to achieve the targets set forth in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.[ii] The most severe effects will be felt in Black America, which has been more heavily affected by the HIV epidemic than any other racial or ethnic group.
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Let Our Faith Light the Way
The National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS was started in 1989 by Pernessa Seele, the founder and CEO of the Balm in Gilead, as the Harlem Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS. What started as a door-to-door outreach to faith leaders in Harlem, N.Y., almost 25 years ago has grown to an international faith observance that is being marked this week, March 3-9. (To learn more about it, click here.)