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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…
1 in 22 Black People Will Contract HIV. That’s Why I Cried.
Luvvie’s note: A couple of weeks ago, I was on Twitter and saw an impassioned rant. The person behind the tweets was speaking with such fervor about the issue of HIV/AIDS and its effect on women. I asked her to write a blog post for the Red Pump blog, and…
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…
Get Tested, Stay Protected
By Cristina Pena In 1986, my family discovered that I was HIV positive. I was one of only 20 infants in the greater Los Angeles area who had been born with HIV, before we really understood the virus and how to prevent its transmission from mother to baby. As a…
Being Latina and Naïve about HIV/AIDS
Being Latina and Naïve about HIV/AIDS I remember the first time I heard the word AIDS, right down to where and what I was doing: Mexicali, Baja – Mexico, pumping gas and still remember the paperboy screaming “Rock Hudson dies of AIDS, read all about it.” It only caught my…
Resurrection of a Legend: Stigma
by Kara Carrell Once Upon A Time there was a vivacious people living in the City Of Wind, who were being terrorized by The Evils Of Infection, and the All Powerful monster called The Stigma.’ The Stigma struck the people from the land with ignorance about their own bodies, and…
Why I Rock the Red Pump
by Christina Dogbey (Red Pump ambassador for Philadelphia, PA)You mean besides the fact I look amazing in red pumps? I rock the red pump because it matters. It matters that women and girls are the fastest growing demographic of new HIV/AIDS cases. It matters that in this group, women and…
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…
Victim of HIV/AIDS?
Written by Shay Johnson Today on a very special episode of…. I kid, I kid, but I do want to discuss a very serious topic, HIV and AIDS, specifically HIV and AIDS and black women. According to the CDC website: “Women account for more than one quarter of all HIV/AIDS…