How do you fight a 100% preventible disease? With the truth!
The National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is March 10, 2009. The purpose of this annual day is to raise awareness of the increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls and encourage women and girls to take action.
Two years ago, Sandra's seemingly perfect world with her husband and two children was shattered. During a routine physical, her doctor noticed Sandra had swollen lymph glands in her neck. Sandra didn't worry when the doctor ordered an HIV test; after all she was married to a wonderful, God-fearing man and she had tested HIV-negative prior to their marriage. Five days later, the test came back positive and Sandra was devastated. That evening she tearfully told her husband of her positive test results. Later that night he went to the store...never to return. She later discovered love letters her husband had written to his former prison mate. Today, Sandra and her two children reside in her parents' basement while Sandra struggles with depression, illness, and financial debt.
"Unfortunately Sandra's story is one of many e-mails received on a daily basis," says Joy Marie, the author of the explosive book, The Straight-Up Truth About The Down-Low: Women Share their Stories of Betrayal, Pain and Survival (Creative Wisdom Books-March 2008). Joy Marie is the pen name of two women who have survived marriages to down-low men.
How Can You Get Involved?
There are so many ways to get involved in the 2009 NWGHAAD campaign! Get started now by using one of the tools below.
- Place your HIV/AIDS Events on our Nonprofit Calendar
- Get tested
- Support the development of Edwin's Place
- Support AAPCI/Africa
- Be an active participant of our Nonprofit Forum and Blog Lounge
- Place our logo/banner on your site
- Download the AAPCI Toolbar
- Make a donation to AAPCI
- Additional HIV/AIDS Resources