Violence in America: What Can I Do?
June 2, 2022
There are many organizations already at work lowering guns deaths through prevention, intervention, and follow-up response, but they still need support.
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention
“HIV/AIDS – Forty Years and Counting”
July 11, 2019
Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, African Americans continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS.
AIDS HealthCare Foundation Sends Sharp Rebuke of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for World’s Aids Day Messaging
December 1, 2018
Dec 1, 2018–AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) once again sharply criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) after it issued a World AIDS Day message promoting HIV prevention and treatment in an email to colleagues in the community. The 400+ word letter/update on HIV/AIDS and prevention in the U.S. failed to make any mention of safer sex or condom use. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be ashamed of itself for failing to take the opportunity to promote safer sex and condom use on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the first World AIDS Day,” said Michael
Wendy’s Window-Suicide Should Not Be The Answer
September 14, 2018
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, close to 1 million adults report attempting to commit suicide and 800,000 people die due to suicide every year worldwide. It has also been reported that calls to suicide prevention hotlines have doubled since 2014. Why is this? The answer to this question is complex. There is no one answer.