Archive for Awareness
An Open Letter in Recognition of World AIDS Day
Dear Red Pump Supporters, Today is World AIDS Day and The Red Pump Project proudly supports the work being done both in the United States and on a global scale to end this epidemic. As an organization raising awareness about the disease’s impact on women and girls, there is no…
Why Should We Care About HIV/AIDS Today?
by Dr. Kimberly Y. Smith As we turn our attention to World AIDS Day, it is important for us to renew our focus on confronting HIV as it continues to cause tremendous hardship, pain and devastation within the Black community. Each year, new statistics describing the HIV epidemic in the…
Are African Americans Still Concerned With HIV/AIDS In Our Community?
by Lisa Pollard On July 24th, I participated in the AIDS Walk of Central Ohio. Actually, I volunteer every year as a tribute to my former co-worker and dear friend who lived with AIDS. Nonetheless, every year I become a little more disappointed at the fact that there are so…
Upcoming HIV/AIDS Events Around the World
There are HIV/AIDS events happening all over the world! Take a look at how people across the globe are spreading awareness, with these upcoming events! *Social Events August 7, 2010 – AIM for Youth’s Back 2 School Community Kids Day in Atlanta, GA is FREE and open to the public….
Vote T.E.A.M. HIV/AIDS: Provide teens with peer to peer education and awareness
In January 2010, Pepsi launched The Pepsi Refresh Project. This initiative, aimed at encouraging individuals to make a positive impact on their communities, plans to award over $20 million this year to ideas that “refresh” the world. Each month, the project takes 1,000 submissions and the best submissions, based off…
DC Doin’ It!: Grassroots Campaign to Distribute 500,000 Female Condoms
Washington D.C. – HIV infection amongst women is nearly 12 times the national rate in the District of Columbia. With the launch of DC Doin’ It!, a grassroots campaign to encourage the use of female condoms, The Washington AIDS Partnership hopes to increase awareness while decreasing HIV infections. The Washington…
If Only You Knew…
“People have moved on. The AIDS community has moved on and the Black community is in denial.” On February 11th, I had the immense pleasure of hearing Emmy Award Winning HIV activist Rae Lewis-Thornton speak at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Encouraging an honest dialogue about the disease, Rae…
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Prevention is Priority
Nine years ago, five organizations collaborated with the Center for Disease Control to make February 7th of every year National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The day exists to raise awareness about the impact of the disease in the Black Community, with a goal of mobilizing African Americans to get educated,…
Someone is infected every 9 1/2 minutes. What’s your status?
When I came across this post yesterday, I had to ask the author permission to feature it on The Red Pump blog. It is just the type of content that we’ve been yearning to get from women on their various points of view on HIV/AIDS. I’m so pleased that Dana…
Red Pump Meetup & Afrobella’s Welcome
Are you going to be in Chicago during the Blogging While Brown Conference? Well, on June 20th, the Red Pump Project is having a meetup in honor of the Beauty Blogger extraordinaire, Afrobella. Bella just moved to Chicago from Miami, and we’re welcoming her to our city of Wind. There…