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This week’s theme for Manic Monday meme is shower. Have you seen the movies where folks are rushed into a shower to cleanse themselves of hazardous materials. We’ve seen these hot HazMat showers in atomic labs or emergency rooms or government offices. I often wish that folks with HIV/AIDS could simply take a special shower to remove the disease from their body. My wish is not coming true. We’ll need to do something else if we hope to eliminate HIV/AIDS in our community.
The incidence of HIV/AIDS has reached alarming rates among African Americans, and young Blacks are being hit hardest. To address the crisis, our blog is supporting efforts by TheLoop21.com and Magic Johnson Foundation, a recognized leader in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, for an online awareness campaign this summer.
We will participate in the national conversations about the crisis during the weeks of June 21-27 and July 19-25. The whole idea is to call attention to an epidemic often ignored by the mainstream media and to search for a way to begin addressing a problem that’s deeply affected our community and is only getting worse.
Get involved by reading about why a campaign like this is needed. Read about why HIV/AIDS has become a crisis or how Congress can get involved, find some books on the subject, sign our petition or become one of our partner organizations or bloggers and check back often for more of the kind of stories about this issue you won’t find anywhere else.
What you can do right now?
- Add the logo to the right to your blog or Facebook page (Here’s how: right click, or control-click on a Mac, and "save image as" to your computer)
- Start an online discussion about AIDS on your blog or Facebook page
- Subscribe to our HIV/AIDS Awareness groupsite.
- Join in the first national online discussion June 21-27
- Sign our petition and encourage others to do the same.
Please take a moment to share your thoughts on this effort to stop AIDS in the Black community.
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AND tell Obama that needle exchange programs are ESSENTIAL IN FIGHTING aids AND THAT HE CAN’T WAIT FOR CONGRESS TO MOVE ON THIS ISSUE.
Wow, Villager. Thank you for the consciousness-raising! So many fresh hells. This is a longstanding and escalating one!
@ubetchiam – Do you have specific legislation on needle exchange program that you feel should be passed?
@libbyliberal – I hope you and others will help spread the message about the dialogue we hope to have next week.