Minority Issues

Grants, Scholarships and Fellowships Available

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Online Grant-writing Tutorial

Offered by The National Minority AIDS Council 

A grant-writing tutorial, geared primarily toward beginner proposal writers, is now available on the National Minority AIDS Council web site. The tutorial, which was developed as part of NMAC's cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau contains information for responding to requests for grant proposals for HIV-related services. It includes information on prevention, early intervention, primary care and related support services such as case management, substance-abuse treatment and counseling, and mental health services. http://www.nmac.org/tech_assistance/Grant_Modules/grant_welcome.asp

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Resources

MDCH Surveillance Report HIV/AIDS Rates by Race/Ethnicity in the 25 Highest HIV Prevalence Counties in Michigan: Focus on Hispanics

AFRICAN-AMERICANS & HIV

MDCH's HIV in Metro Detroit:Teens and Young Adults

CDC’s A Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans

NASTAD Issue Brief Focusing on Black Men who have Sex with Men (MSM

The Body Presents: An African-American's Guide to Living With HIV
Within the African-American community, there's still an enormous amount of fear, ignorance and prejudice about HIV and HIV-positive people. If you're black and you've just been diagnosed with HIV, this stigma may cause you to feel guilty, depressed or angry in ways that can be hazardous to your health. That's why it's vital to know the facts. The Body's newest informational booklet, "HIV & Me: An African-American's Guide to Living With HIV," can provide you with basic guidance, key details and inspiring stories that can help you live a full -- and fulfilling -- life with HIV. Do you work for an HIV service organization or health care provider? Free print copies of "HIV & Me" are available to professionals ordering from within the United States! Click here to download an order form.
 

New Spanish Content Now Available on AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo At-a-Glance Volume Issue No. 8
AIDSinfo has created a new Health Topics section in Spanish. This section includes up-to-date and reliable Spanish-language resources from the Federal government in one location on the AIDSinfo Web site. The new section provides links in Spanish on a variety of topics: HIV Treatment HIV Prevention Vaccines Opportunistic Infections
Cultural Competency

In addition to the new Health Topics section, AIDSinfo has also released a new Publications Ordering page in Spanish to allow Spanish-speaking users to order publications about HIV treatment. This new page allows Spanish-speaking users to preview publications in Spanish and order either English or Spanish versions of them by postal mail or e-mail.

Updated HIV Fact Sheets on Black Americans, Latinos, and Women
The Kaiser Family Foundation is releasing updated fact sheets on Black Americans, Latinos, and Women and HIV/AIDS.  http://www.kff.org/hivaids/index.cfm .
 

Racial Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Michigan & US - HIV Surveillance Presentation from Black AIDS Awareness Rally, January 10, 2006, by Melissa Reznar, MPH, MDCH HIV/AIDS Data Manager/Epidemiologist
(Note: This is a PowerPoint Presentation. After you click on the link above and open the file you can right mouse click on the first slide, then choose "edit slides" to see Melissa's notes for each slide.)

 Video “Seniors At Risk: Sex, Drugs and HIV”
With funding from the Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, Urban Solutions Inc. and Silhouette Media produced a video to educate African American adults about the risk factors of contracting the HIV virus. It is targeted at people 50 years of age and older who are unaware of how the disease spreads or who may believe that age provides them immunity. In the program, you will hear from experts in the field, and see candid re-enactments that will raise awareness of what constitutes at-risk behavior.

Copies of “Seniors At Risk: Sex, Drugs and HIV” cost $25.00 (fully tax –deductible). You may order from: Urban Solutions, Inc.
3430 E. Jefferson #124, Detroit, MI 48207, or Place an order on our web site:
http://www.urbansolutionsinc.org Be sure to indicate whether you’d like to receive the program on DVD or VHS. This video has been reviewed by the Michigan Program Review Panel and is recommended for the intended audience.

Faith-Based HIV Prevention Interventions
A Technical Assistance Guide for Working with
Communities of Faith, created by MDCH