Drive Out AIDS, Win a New Car
As you know, on World AIDS Day the Black AIDS Institute launched a new campaign to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS in our community, with our Drive Out AIDS, Win a New Car raffle held in partnership with Car Pros Kia of Carson, a Los Angeles-area car dealership.
First, I want to thank everyone who has already bought raffle tickets. Secondly, I want to make an exciting announcement about our early bird raffle: Anyone who registers before Black AIDS Awareness Day on February 7th will be entered into a free raffle for a 4-Day Carnival Cruise for two—you get 2 raffles for the price of one! We will draw the winner of the cruise on February 7th, as a part of our Black AIDS Awareness Day activities. That means that your registration has to be in by 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific on Thursday, February 6th.
And it couldn't be easier. There are 5 ways to enter. You can either:
1) mail your registration to the Black AIDS Institute, 1833 West 8th Street, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA, 90057
2) fax your registration to the Black AIDS Institute: 213-989-0181
3) email your registration to us at
4) or the easiest way is to call us: 213-353-3610, extension 107.
To get a registration form or learn more information about the Grand Prize, the 2014 Kia Forte, or the Early-Bird 4-Day Carnival Cruise, go to www.AIDSRaffle.org.
Yesterday a contingent from the Black AIDS Institute marched in the Los Angeles Kingdom Day Parade as part of our collaboration with the Far West region of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, where we promoted AIDS awareness and fought stigma in Black communities.
We want to thank Ken Phillips and Car Pros Kia of Carson and especially Alabama Lovett for donating the car for the raffle. This is an example of a business in our community putting its money where its mouth is to address a major issue in the community. I hope you will help us show Car Pros Kia that their faith in our community was justified by helping to make this campaign a huge success. Don't delay: register for both raffles today.
In this issue we continue our look at HIV/AIDS-related ignorance, stigma and criminalization by examining how they negatively impacted school-aged children last fall in Pea Ridge, Arkansas. We also run a Q&A with longtime Black AIDS Institute Board Member Grazell Howard, who recently became the first woman to lead the institute's board of directors. Grazell shares her vision about the leadership she will bring to both the Institute and the movement to end the HIV epidemic in Black communities.
Our friends at AIDS.gov report about a series of new media training sessions to help PLWHA and people working in HIV/AIDS who are age 50 and older more effectively use social media. We also run two stories from Kaiser Health News—one that focuses on the young adults who comprise about one-quarter of the 2.2 million people who have signed up for the Affordable Care Act and the second shifting the public's perception of the Affordable Care Act.
We hope you like this issue of the Black AIDS weekly. But like it or not, we would love to hear from you.
Yours in the struggle,
Phill