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2nd Annual AIDS 5K Run/Walk |
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VAIN is having its 2nd Annual AIDS 5K Walk/Run. This event is to raise money for awareness, education, and advocacy of HIV/AIDS and those infected or affected by it. This is still a growing issue. We need your help! Assemble a team and help us fight!
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written by Bob Skinner, President/CEO of VAIN
As all of you well know, we have been dealing with one of the most challenging financial times this country has seen in decades. People have lost their jobs, their cars and even their homes, most importantly their health insurance. A large percentage of people are barely surviving and are not even getting the basic necessities it takes to live.
People living with HIV/AIDS are not immune to this crisis. There are currently over 6,000 HIV positive individuals in 10 states that have been placed on wait lists, they are unable to access their medications because of these lists. Many state managed ADAP’s (AIDS Drug Assistance Programs) have already run out of money. Oregon’s ADAP, is called Care Assist, which does not have a wait list. This is just the tip of the iceberg!
I personally have attended two ADAP crisis summits, the first held in Washington DC in July of 2010 and the most recent held in Fort Lauderdale Florida, my old home town.
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HIV Infection Tends To Be Concentrated Where Sex Education Is Lacking |
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Researchers from the CDC are, for the first time, able to map the incidence of HIV around the country, and have discovered a disturbing trend. Among the states with the highest rates of new HIV diagnoses were nearly all of the states in the deep south, many of which don’t require school districts to teach “medically accurate” sex education, and some of which don’t require any sex education at all.
The highest rates weren’t limited to the south, though the concentration there is significant. Illinois, for instance, also ranks high, but is an island among other Midwestern states. The City of Chicago’s board of education just recently voted to expand the city’s sex education program in response to the alarming STD infection rate seen there. According to DNAinfo.com Chicago, the amount of sex ed that children currently receive is “limited to a few minutes over a few grade levels.” The new program will seek to start discussing family life as early as kindergarten, and continue that through the fourth grade. Comprehensive sexual health education will begin in fifth grade and continue through the end of high school.
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