News 2014
Q&A: Grazell Howard, Incoming Board Chair of The Black AIDS Institute
Strategic consulting expert and longtime health advocate Grazell Howard has been named chair of the board of The Black AIDS Institute. The North Carolina entrepreneur and New York native has worked for New York Rep. Charles Rangel; as a prosecutor and as an attorney for a major insurance company; and as an adviser, coach and partner with some of America's top executives and their organizations. Along the way Howard has also nurtured a passion for health issues. Here's where she sees the Institute heading.
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Reaching Aging Adults Living with or at Risk of HIV, A New Media and Technology Strategy
Editor's Note: Our July 23, 2013 post announced support for 10 organizations serving communities of color, other communities at highest risk of HIV, and people living with HIV with the intent to stimulate and support new media planning. Today we start an intermittent series of posts to feature the varied experience of each organization as each built their capacity to integrate the use of new media in response to HIV.
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Nearly A Quarter Of Health Marketplace Enrollees Are Young Adults
Nearly a quarter of the 2.2 million people who've enrolled in health coverage in the health law's insurance marketplaces are young adults — the population that's hardest to reach and yet most vital for the long-term financial stability of the new exchanges, the Obama administration announced Monday.
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Children of Poz Mom Return to School in Pea Ridge, Ark.
Pea Ridge, Ark., was named both for the mountain ridge near which it was founded and for the turkey peas on which early settlers subsisted.
With a population of just 4,794 at last count, the generally low-key town was pushed into the national spotlight in September 2013, when three schoolchildren were subjected to misinformation and old-fashioned fear about HIV and the way it is contracted.
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Celebrating Dr. King's True Legacy
Tomorrow is Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. If he were alive, he would be 87 years old. I always think it's odd that the predominant (and almost only) reference to Dr. King is his 1963 March on Washington "I Have a Dream" speech. But I think it's sad that we forget that Dr. King was not just a dreamer; first and foremost, he was a doer. He actually changed the world by his actions.