By LaKeshia N. Myers As we observe World AIDS Day on December 1st, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed … [Read more...]
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EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MILWAUKEE COURIER
Revisiting the AIDS Epidemic Forty-Three Years Later
By LaKeshia N. Myers It has been forty-three years since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a report on five previously healthy young gay men diagnosed with KS/OI. This was the … [Read more...]
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Revisiting the AIDS Epidemic Forty-Two Years Later
It has been forty-two years since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a report on five previously healthy young gay men diagnosed with KS/OI. This was the first recognized sign of what … [Read more...]
Dec. 1, World AIDS Day
More than half of young HIV-infected Americans are not aware of their status Young people between the ages of 13 and 24 represent more than a quarter of new HIV infections each year (26 percent) and … [Read more...]
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS: World AIDS Day
Special to the NNPA from the Black AIDS Institute The 2011 theme for World AIDS Day is “Getting to Zero.” The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS commends the Obama Administration on its … [Read more...]
World AIDS Day program to be held at St. Gabriel COGIC
On Tues., Dec.1, 2009, we along with other countries around the world will be observing “World AIDS Day!” World AIDS Day, established in 1988 by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), mission is to … [Read more...]