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 way that we can ignore [...]
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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 United States are reported, but [...]
Read moreby 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 few African Americans that participate [...]
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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. Up to 1,000 youth and [...]
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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 public voting, will receive grants [...]
Read moreWashington 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 AIDS Partnership, a collaboration of [...]
Read more“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 discussed everything from denial and [...]
Read moreNine 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, get involved and tested, and [...]
Read moreWhen 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 is allowing us to have [...]
Read moreAre 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 will be raffles, giveaways and [...]
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