Coming Dec. 6, the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV’s (LACHIV) Black Caucus is joining forces with local leaders and organizations to host a community-focused World AIDS Day event, emphasizing the sexual health needs of Black communities.
Political news briefs about activities throughout the state of California.
According to a study by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH), Black and African Americans make up less than 13 percent of the general population but account for more than 49 percent of newly reported HIV/AIDS cases compared to Whites and Hispanics.
December 1, World Aids Day, was also a day of celebration because a new super weapon was unveiled. “The Love Bus is a preventive mobile health unit. It is meant to meet people where they are, but also where they want to be,” shared Dazon Dixon Diallo, who recognized a growing need in the African American community for health care services in 1989.
“Jimi Hendrix is one of the most important figures in American pop culture, not just American music,” said Dr. Steven Lewis, curator at NMAAM. “This guitar provides a physical reminder of the power of his music, his personality and his brand of self-expression that was as influential in the 1960s as it is today.”
APLA Health commemorates World AIDS Day and continued fight against AIDS epidemics
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
The Los Angeles Sentinel chats with singer/motivational speaker Rebecca King-Crews at 2016 AIDS Healthcare Foundation event held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
According to AHF, over 1.1 million people died of AIDS in 2015, with roughly 44% of new cases affecting African Americans in the United States
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.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, commemorated World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1st through dozens of free HIV awareness and testing events throughout US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Asia. The organization also celebrated reaching the milestone that as of November 13th, AHF is providing lifesaving HIV/AIDS medical care and services to 502,237 patients in 36 countries. Over half of these patients reside in South Africa, the nation with the largest population of people living with HIV/AIDS. Amber Rose, actors Vivian Lamolli and Oskar Rodriguez of Hulu’s East Los High, and choreographer Debbie Allen were