KC-area project utilizes churches for TIPS on addressing AIDS among blacks

By | June 27, 2014 |
Two women who organized TIPS in KCK

When activists worldwide marked three decades since the emergence of a mysterious immune disease, Kansas City, Kan., participants posted a timeline of key events in the fight against the AIDS pandemic in a building foyer in their community. Yet this was no ordinary lobby; it was the main entrance to Mt. Carmel Church of God…

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Photography exhibition takes aim at stigma associated with HIV and AIDS

By | June 26, 2014 |
Sean-aka-Seandretta Duane Cramer Duane Cramer Creative

This Friday is National HIV Testing Day, first created almost 20 years ago to encourage members of the public to learn their HIV status. Since then, what it means to be HIV-positive has changed dramatically. Individuals diagnosed as positive today can expect to live as long as they would without the virus, as long as…

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