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HIV, STD Prevention Programs Urgently Needed, Researchers Conclude

HIV, STD Prevention Programs Urgently Needed, Researchers ConcludeSAN FRANCISCONew research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concludes that high-risk sexual behaviors were common among HIV-infected and uninfected young African American men having sex with men (MSM) in North Carolina, and that HIV and STD prevention programs targeting young Black MSM, both in […]

April 7, 2004

Health

President Bush Awards Harvard $107 Million in Africa AIDS Fight

President Bush Awards Harvard $107 Million in Africa AIDS FightWASHINGTONAt a State Department press conference last month, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Randall L. Tobias announced that the Harvard School of Public Health’s AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa […]

March 24, 2004

Health

AIDS Treatment Study in Africa Enrolls First Participants

AIDS Treatment Study in Africa Enrolls First ParticipantsCHAPEL HILL, N.C.After overcoming numerous financial and governmental obstacles, doctors have enrolled five people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in the first National Institutes of Health-funded AIDS treatment research study in Africa.When those patients complete four weeks of successful therapy, another 15 will be enrolled […]

December 3, 2003

HBCUs

Researchers Find Growing Number of HIV Cases at North Carolina Colleges

Researchers Find Growing Number of HIV Cases at North Carolina CollegesGREENSBORO, N.C.Researchers are alarmed by a recent outbreak of the HIV virus among college students in North Carolina in which 53 male students — most of them Black — have contracted the virus. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and state researchers say the […]

August 27, 2003

Sports

Keeping the Ashe Legacy Relevant

Keeping the Ashe Legacy Relevant By Ronald Roach Although tennis is regarded as an elite sport, the success that came to Arthur Ashe Jr. during and after his tennis career helped make him a figure whose impact reached far beyond the narrow confines of the tennis world. Among his exploits, Ashe is the first and […]

April 9, 2003

Students

Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology Program

Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology ProgramBy Ronald Roach WASHINGTON, D.C.Microsoft has announced a $15 million software grant to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) technology initiative, which is a multi-year effort to raise more than $100 million to upgrade technology at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The software grant will be distributed […]

March 26, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Spelman College To Address HIV/AIDS In African Diaspora

Spelman College To Address HIV/AIDS In African Diaspora With a series of international conferences and new health courses planned, one of the nation’s leading historically Black colleges is poised to tackle one of the most urgent issues facing women in the African Diaspora — the spread of HIV/AIDS. Spelman College will kick off the first […]

January 29, 2003

Health

HIV AIDS A Predator in Paradise

HIV AIDS A Predator in ParadiseToday the Caribbean has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Some Caribbean scholars are taking steps to educate the academy and national leaders about curbing the spread of the disease.By B. Denise HawkinsThe Caribbean is legendary for the soothing rustle of blowing palm trees, sugar white beaches […]

January 29, 2003

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Making Our Voices Heard

Making Our Voices Heard When the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case and render what will undoubtedly be a landmark ruling on the issue, I honestly thought there would be more of an outcry from civil rights groups lobbying the administration, making the case in support of […]

January 29, 2003

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Blacks Are in a State of Emergency

Blacks Are in a State of EmergencyIt is becoming ever more unpopular for me to assert that I am an African American. It appears that I would have more fans if I would just accept myself as a “diversity.” But, I am not a “diversity,” I am not a “multiculturalism,” and I am not a […]

July 31, 2002

Health

Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Classroom

Addressing HIV/AIDS in the ClassroomEducators encouraged to teach the ‘whole child’By Phaedra BrothertonWASHINGTONA 20-member panel of scholars, practitioners and teacher education experts came together last month to determine the core information K-12 educators need to know in order to address HIV/AIDS in their classrooms and, ultimately, to help prevent the spread of the disease.  Funded […]

July 17, 2002

Health

Race Matters Health Care

Race Matters Health CareExperts say eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities is the civil rights issue of our dayWASHINGTONWhen the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine released its report earlier this year documenting that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care, many African Americans in the medical and health care […]

May 22, 2002