AIDS

HIV/AIDS

African Americans account for almost half of new infections and represented more than one-third of people living with HIV in 2013

Kelsey Scott at the AHF Keep the Promise Concert

Actress Kelsey Scott talks about her role on Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots” at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation Keep the Promise Concert red carpet.
Host Brittany K. Jackson

TROUBLE AHEAD FOR NIGERIA AS OIL PROFITS PLUMMET

Tumbling oil prices have been a gift to some but they’ve blown a huge hole in Nigeria’s balance sheet which some fear may set the once promising African economy into a tail spin. What could be worse than finding you have a trillion dollar budget gap and an insurgent group that threatens to hit whatever oil wells remain?

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, February 7, 2016

Sunday, February 7, 2016 is National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The theme of thisYear’s campaign is ‘I am My Brother’s and Sister’s Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS’. The emphasis of the 2016 campaign is on the role that everyone can play in HIV prevention and television personality and Co-Founder of 6in10.org, Karamo Brown wants that message heard loud and clear!   Brown co-founded 6in10.org with Donta Morrison to eradicate the HIV statistic that says that 6 in 10 African American gay or bi-sexual men will contract HIV by the time they are 40 according to the Centers for Disease Control. Among African Americans,