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Local events in Atlantic City and Galloway Township marked World AIDS Day on Tuesday.

Laurence Ganges, assistant commissioner of the New Jersey health department's Division of HIV/AIDS Services, spoke at the All Wars Memorial Building, in Atlantic City. The World AIDS Day Life Celebration in Atlantic City featured a series of workshops, health screenings and a display of the memorial AIDS quilt.

The event was organized by the city's Department of Health, AtlantiCare and other local organizations.

The Richard Stockton College recognized World AIDS Day Tuesday with free HIV testing and information on preventing and living with AIDS. World AIDS Day was initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988 to mobilize resources to combat HIV and AIDS, increase awareness of the disease, and fight stigma and prejudice.

The local event was sponsored by the Stockton Center on Successful Aging and the Wellness Center, in conjunction with Dr. Lisa Cox's HIV/AIDS class, the Public Health Marketing Class, the Public Health Society, the Unified Black Students Society (UBSS), and the Certified Peer Educator Club.

 

 

 

3 comments:

• B4real (371) posts 2:23 pm

  So by your own statistics Kin2love, what you're saying is that although african-americans only make up 13% of the population they are responsible for more than 50% of the Aids cases! Ignorance is not bliss!

• kin2love (118) posts 10:31 am

  If anyone out there was smart enough to catch the HUGE error that accompanied this article...good for you. Unfortunately, the editor has changed it since then. When this article was first ran...the statistics for an AIDS case study were incorrectly published. The writer posted that 54% of African Americans carry the virus in NJ and 22% of Latinos carry the virus in NJ. But the arcticle coincidently failed to mention any percentages concerning the White race. Upon doing my research at the site for the Center of Diesease Control...the last national case study concluded that between 1995-2007 about 426,000 cases of AIDS were reported among African Americans...404,000 cases were reported among Whites. White AIDS cases out-numbered Latinos by far. Which makes me wonder...what kind of Newspaper would do such a thing? The Press is biased and negatively influencial on how our minorities are portrayed in this area. The editor in chief is a scumbag who doesnt even screen what is put out there for the public to read and digest. Keep an eye on this terrible excuse for print journalism.

• Thrush (334) posts 5:35 pm

  bang the drum, slowly.

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