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February News

Lansing Area AIDS Network and Kaye McDuffie Selected for the 2007 Institute of HIV Prevention Leadership

The Lansing Area AIDS Network (LAAN) is pleased to announce that the Early Intervention Coordinator, Kaye McDuffie, was selected as a scholar for the 2007 Institute of HIV Prevention Leadership (IHPL). Kaye was one of 50 individuals provided an IHPL scholarship out of a candidate pool of approximately 300 applicants. Since the origin of the Institute in 2000 only 10 individuals from the State of Michigan have been provided such a scholarship.

"The IHPL selection is a great honor for LAAN and will improve the agency’s capacity to provide highly effective HIV prevention programs, said LAAN ED Jake Distel. "Kaye and LAAN will be able to expand their network of colleagues in HIV prevention, develop new skills, apply new knowledge, and strengthen our individual, organizational capacity and leadership."

Topics to be covered at IHPL are varied, exciting, and were designed following input from public health experts, community-based organization staff and their representative communities, national organizations representing communities of color and people living with HIV/AIDS, academics, and scientists.

IHPL maintains a website ( www.IHPL.org ) that provides web-based, streaming video, and workbook modules that can assist in conducting community assessment, intervention planning and implementation, and building evaluation capacity. The self-study modules and worksheets can readily be applied and used by organizations not involved in HIV/AIDS.
 

Michigan's Third Annual Black AIDS Awareness Campaign kicks off in Detroit

This campaign, which has grown over the past two years, got a high profile opening in downtown Detroit with a town hall meeting "Re-Sound the Alarm: HIV is Still Raging in Detroit. This event, held at Second Ebenezer Church on February 1, was a collaboration of local and state government agencies and Detroit community-based organizations. It is notable that the event received a warm reception by the Church's pastor, thanks to the work of Gospel Against AIDS.

In her opening remarks MDCH-Division of Health Wellness and Disease Control Loretta Davis-Satterla gave a PowerPoint presentation on how African Americans are disproportionately affected by the epidemic and graphically showed how this impacts on Michigan, Southeast Michigan and the City of Detroit. The Detroit health department provided HIV counseling, testing and referral services at their mobile health van on site for the event.

See the entire listing of continuing Black AIDS Awareness Campaign events planned around the state through March 18. This campaign was coordinated by DHWDC-HAPIS and MHAC's African American AIDS Advisory Committee.

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