Posts Tagged ‘AIDS’
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2009
Posted in Blog, tagged AIDS, HIV, Shavon S. Greene on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SEX S.Y.M.B.A.L.S. brings HIV awareness to campus
Posted in Blog, tagged AIDS, education, HIV on March 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Shavon S. Greene
We are all familiar with the AIDS crisis in Africa. Day after day the media bombards us with images of dying Africans going from infancy to adulthood in decaying bodies. These news reports have built up a stigma around HIV and AIDS within the Black and Latino communities in the US. Without [...]
HIV-awareness vital to high-risk communities
Posted in Blog, tagged AIDS, education, HIV, sex on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One HIV-positive college student’s take on life and the importance of educating Black and Latino communities
By Shavon S. Greene
Grissel Ganados, a senior sociology major at the University of California-Santa Barbra was diagnosed with HIV at the age of five. She was infected as an infant through breast milk, while her mother caught HIV through a [...]