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CHAMP is a reliable, accurate and insightful resource for the press. RECENT CLIPS
8/11/10: Ayana Jones, Philadelphia Tribune Local HIV/AIDS activist speaks at int’l gatheringFor local activist Waheedah Shabazz-El, delivering the closing speech at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria was an unforgettable experience. Shabazz-El delivered a speech titled “Human Rights as a Conscious Achievement” to world leaders and over 25,000 delegates who gathered for the weeklong conference. During her speech, Shabazz-El called for women living with HIV to be involved in the policymaking process and ending the criminalization and violation of women living with HIV and AIDS... ... Shabazz-El, who was diagnosed with AIDS in 2003, is a community organizer and trainer with the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP).
9/24/09: Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press In a first, an AIDS vaccine shows some success9/23/09: Johnathan Briggs, Huffington Post The Politics of AIDS and Health Care ReformTwo weeks after President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned address on health reform to the nation and a joint session of Congress, I sat down with David Ernesto Munar of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Julie Davids of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) to discuss how the Obama administration is approaching the fight against HIV/AIDS.
9/03/09: Jim Burress, WABE News (Public Broadcasting, Atlanta) "Preliminary" CDC Report Says Gay/Bisexual Men 50-times More Likely to be HIV-Positive
ATLANTA, GA
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Before doctors knew what HIV was, they referred to the virus as "Gay Cancer" because it overwhelmingly affected gay men.
More than 25 years later, AIDS activists say the CDC's finding that gay and bisexual men are 50 times more likely to contract the virus is the first time the government has given a concrete view of HIV's effect on that population. "The CDC has never been willing to issue rates before. So we would only have absolute numbers, and whether these numbers are going up or down." Walt Senterfitt is an epidemiologist and board chair of CHAMP, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project. "Starting with the facts and the truth, and then digging down into why these particular facts might be the case, is the best way to generate good public policy." The CDC declined to be interviewed for this story, saying the statistics are preliminary. Reply |
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CHAMP closed down as of 12/31/11. For more information, contact champnetwork.org. The HIV Prevention Justice Alliance is now hosted by AIDS Foundation of Chicago and can be reached at www.preventionjustice.org or 646-431-7525. Project UNSHACKLE is now hosted by VOCAL and can be reached at www.vocal-ny.org, or (718) 802-9540. |
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