[NASW Alaska Chapter Listserve] FW: J.L. King/National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day next week!

[Summer LeFebvre]

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2007
February 9-10, 2007
Unveiling the Crisis
J.L. King Lecture and Book Signing
                   
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Join the Four A's, Shiloh Community Development Inc.'s Minority Health
Coalition and the University of Alaska's AHAINA Student Programs and Student
Activities for an exciting National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day event in
Anchorage.  Nationally known author and publisher, J.L. King will be
presenting a lecture and book signing about HIV/AIDS awareness and education
in the African American community.  King¹s books On the Down Low and Coming
Up From the Down Low have greatly increased HIV/AIDS awareness and education
in the African American community.  King has played an important role as a
peer educator and breaking down many barriers that have prevented the Black
community from talking about HIV/AIDS.  King¹s workshops and presentations
are nationally known to be provocative and enlightening.     For more
information about J.L. King, visit www.jlking.net/biography.html
<http://www.jlking.net/biography.html>

 

 Join us for the following events:

                               Unveiling the Crisis

                               Friday, February 9, 2007, UAA Wendy
Williamson Auditorium-    7 p.m.

                                      J.L King, national HIV advocate,
speaks to the HIV crisis in our community.   This event is free to the
public and will contain adult conversations .

                 

                               Book Signing

                               Saturday, February 10, 2007, Borders Books
and Music-   2- 3 p.m.

                                       Get your copies of On the Down Low
and Coming Up From the Down Low signed by the author himself!

 

 

 About National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBAAD) is February 7 each year and is
a national mobilization effort designed to encourage African Americans to
get educated, get tested, get involved and get treated in regards to
HIV/AIDS.  African American men and women continue to be disproportionately
affected by HIV/AIDS since the epidemic¹s beginning, and that disparity has
deepened over time.  At the end of 2005, the Black community represented 12%
of the U.S. population but made up 50% of the AIDS cases.  Blacks account
for more HIV/AIDS cases, people estimated to be living with AIDS, and
HIV-related deaths than any other racial/ethnic group.  In addition, Blacks
with HIV/AIDS may face greater barriers to accessing care.  In 2004, this
population accounted for half of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States
alone.  Black women account for the far majority of new AIDS cases among
women (67% in 2005).  Black teens (aged 13-19) represent only 15% of the
U.S. teenagers but account for 73% of new AIDS Cases reported among teens in
2004.  This national trend is occurring in Alaska as well.

 

Contact Michael King, Director of Prevention, at (907) 263-2048 or
mking at alaskanaids.org  <blocked::">mailto:mking at alaskanaids.org>
<mailto:mking at alaskanaids.org>
for more information.
 
 

 
 

 


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