{"id":283140,"date":"2010-02-05T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:49:06","slug":"brooklyn-commemorates-national-black-hivaids-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283140","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Commemorates National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014The Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, the Brooklyn Linkage to Care Coalition (BLCC) and the Watchful Eye <\/strong>are bringing together community leaders, HIV\/AIDS experts, service providers and consumers to commemorate National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day on Monday, February 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center. Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham, founder of Caribbean Women\u2019s Health Association, Inc., will be the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n

With 100 more HIV\/AIDS-related deaths than Manhattan and the other boroughs in 2007, Brooklyn has sadly become the epicenter of the epidemic in New York and the nation for blacks, women, adolescents and children living with the virus. Brooklyn has consistently outpaced the nation with the largest number of individuals who, when diagnosed with HIV, are also diagnosed with AIDS, perhaps an indicator that they are not benefitting from access to the care and treatment that can extend their lives.<\/p>\n

Divinah Bailey, founder and executive director of the Watchful Eye, will introduce the revitalization of the Brooklyn Red Ribbon Campaign, and BLCC representatives will present the first-ever Brooklyn HIV\/AIDS Strategic Plan. The assistant commissioner of the Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control, Monica Sweeney, M.D., will provide a preview of the \u201cBrooklyn Knows\u201d HIV testing campaign to begin in December 2010. Breakfast and lunch will be served, and Junior\u2019s Restaurant will provide a dessert tasting of their world-famous cheesecake.<\/p>\n

The Center for Study of Brooklyn<\/a> is the first and only Brooklyn-based institution dedicated to serving the borough by elevating critical policy and public affairs issues to the citywide discourse, conducting and providing access to Brooklyn-based data and research, and advancing community initiatives that impact change. The BLCC, formed in 2006, includes representatives from Brooklyn-based hospitals and clinics; the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; researchers from CUNY, SUNY and the National Development and Research Institutes; direct service providers; religious institutions; policy makers and funders. The Watchful Eye Testing, Outreach and Prevention initiative is a community mobilization effort with the major goals of encouraging individuals to get tested, learn their status and become involved.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, February 7, the coalition will celebrate an \u201c<\/em><\/strong>An Evening of Praise and Awareness\u201d at Long Island University. Hosted by Bishop Albert Jamison, the event is a special tribute to Congressman Edolphus Towns (D, NY-10) that will feature elected officials, gospel choirs and testimony from people living with HIV\/AIDS. Scheduled to appear are Senator John Sampson, Assemblyman Darryl Towns, Councilman Al Vann, recording artist Kristina Halloway, Bishop Gerald Seabrook and the Rehoboth Cathedral Church Choir, Bishop Eric Figueroa, Sr. and the New Life Tabernacle Choir, Chadrick Coleman, Jason Hendrickson, Kalvin LeVeille, Nakeesha Witherspoon, Q The Prophet and Michelle Lopez. Free on-site HIV\/AIDS testing will be available. The event will take place in Luntey Commons at Flatbush Extension and DeKalb Avenue at 4 p.m. No registration is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2014The Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, the Brooklyn Linkage to Care Coalition (BLCC) and the Watchful Eye are bringing together community leaders, HIV\/AIDS experts, service providers and consumers to commemorate National Black HIV\/AIDS Awareness Day on Monday, February 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center. Brooklyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}