Empowered LA Youth Host 6th Annual ‘Spring into Love’
This year’s event will focus on health topics that dramatically affect young people of color in the South Los Angeles community.
This year’s event will focus on health topics that dramatically affect young people of color in the South Los Angeles community.
The basics in dealing with STDs is first and foremost, using condoms, male or female.
National Medical Association addresses HIV/AIDS at its 114th Annual Convention
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the reasons why African Americans are at a higher risk of contracting HIV is because we tend to have sex with partners of the same race/ethnicity. Simply put, we tend to have sex with each other, thereby increasing the spread of HIV/AIDS in our community.
It’s been 35 years since the reporting of the first case of HIV in America and it saddens me to say it, but this nation was late at best, in answering the call to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. What is even more egregious is the deafening silence when it came to supporting HIV education, prevention and care in all communities but even more so in the Black community.