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Aids and Hiv Awareness
AIDS and HIV Awareness On October 30, 2006, I attended the Women HIV/AIDS prevention seminar located in the science and research building. This event started at 5:00pm, and it was hosted by the Sister Love, Inc. The speaker was a representative from Sister Love, Inc named Nairobi Moss. The Women HIV/AIDS prevention seminar was about how we as African American's can help educate each other on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It also was about how to prevent these diseases, and how it affects us in the Atlanta University Center (AUC) and all over the world if we don't change our bad habits. In the seminar, Nairobi Moss gave out vital information to the students of the AUC about HIV/AIDS in Georgia. One of the shocking facts that she gave us was that 64% of AIDS cases in Georgia are of African Americans. AIDS is the leading cause of death for African American women ages 20-44. Moss also stated that 2%-9% of AIDS cases come from mother-to-infant transmission. The percentage is low because doctors ask women to take on certain procedures so that this virus isn't pass on to there children One procedure is to take medication prescribe during and after pregnancy. They also tell them not to breast feed.
The most inspiring part in the seminar was when Nairobi gave us a piece of paper and told us to write down some of our favorites such as our most prized possession, our favorite color and our ambitions. Moss then collected everyone's paper. She then told us to think about all the things we put on the paper. Then, Moss said to us "If I was the person responsible for infecting all of you with HIV, everything you put on that paper would not matter. Your life would be your favorite thing and your ambition would be to stay alive and fight this disease as long as you can.
I like everything about this seminar because it opened my eyes, and I started to see how serious HIV and AIDS are. Nairobi Moss enlighten me on a lot of information I never know before. There

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