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Lorraine Langlois CEO of Metropolitan Wellness Centers Tampa Bay region
01/24/13 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: HIV, health, women's issues
Lorraine Langlois, the CEO of the Metro Wellness and Community Centers, talk about the programs that the agency offers for a comprehensive response to the needs of HIV-affected, GBLT and other at risk communities of Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, and Hernando Counties.The agency serves nearly 3000 people at any one time and through substance abuse treatment and prevention, counseling, case management, a food pantry, prevention services, a thrift store and social and recreational programs assi...
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03/31/12 Andrea LypkaWMNF Drive-Time News Monday
Tags: scott fried, HIV, AIDS
When someone is diagnosed with a debilitating disease, it can be difficult to keep up spirits. Last week HIV educator Scott Fried shared his message of sexual safety, responsibility, and self-esteem at the University of South Florida.
In 1987, when 24 year-old Scott Fried contracted the HIV virus, it was considered a death sentence. Since then, he has lost 131 of his friends to AIDS.
“I wasn't raped, I wasn't coerced, I wasn't drugged, rufied, pinned down,” Fried said to a group of USF...
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11/30/11 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: AIDS, HIV, Wellness, Health, Pinellas County
Thursday is the 23rd Annual World AIDS Day. The Pinellas County HIV/AIDS Prevention Partnership is holding a wellness fair.
Lisa Cohen, HIV/AIDS Program coordinator for the Pinellas County Health Department says the event will promote awareness by providing resources open to the public.
Be the first to comment“This year we’re observing the 30th year since AIDS was first reported. We’re providing free health screenings, flu vaccines, HIV, STD ...
HIV/AIDS infections an epidemic among African-Americans listen
08/04/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: AIDS, USF Health, HIV, USF, African Americans
Florida HIV infection rates have increased recently in two groups: gay and bisexual males, and African-American females. WMNF’s Josh Holton reports from today’s National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS conference at the University of South Florida’s College of Public Health.
A report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, found that there have been about 50,000 new HIV infections in the country each year from 2006-2009, and that...
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12/06/10 Lachelle RoddyWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Over 34 million people worldwide are living with HIV. On Saturday, USF’s Institute of Black Life held its 2nd annual HIV/AIDS march with the slogan “walking for the cure”.
This walk is not the first time USF has held an event in response to HIV. This past March they offered free HIV testing to all women in the bay area. The coordinator of both events, Clara Cobb, says there’s still a stereotype attached to HIV.
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National Black Aids/HIV Awareness Day Event Held in St. Pete listen
02/08/10 Concetta DeLucoWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: African American, AIDS, HIV, national black aids/hiv awareness day, banyan tree project
In honor of the 10th Annual National Black HIV/Aids Awareness Day on February 7, the Pinellas County Health Department worked with area partnerships to organize several community events over the weekend.
On Saturday the Front Porch Community Development Association in St. Petersburg hosted one of the events. HIV Screenings and prevention education were offered to the hundreds of people that attended. J. Carl Devine is the executive director of the Banyan Tree Project, a group dedicated to ...
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03/10/09 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Health care, AIDS, HIV, Haiti
Dr. David Walton is a Harvard trained physician who has worked with the group Partners in Health since 1997. He divides his time between Boston and Haiti, where he’s an expert on the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
Walton is speaking right now on the USF-St. Pete campus, but was at WMNF’s studios earlier today.
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03/02/09 Concetta DeLucoWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Health, LGBT, AIDS, HIV, vaccine
Amid the festivities at Southern Exposure, the nation’s first all-gay carnival held in Ybor over the weekend, a press conference was held on Saturday to announce the next steps in the development of a new HIV vaccination.
Referred to as the “GaYbor District,” Ybor currently hosts the nation’s highest gay population. At the Hampton Inn, the Atlanta-based GeoVax Labs Inc. educated some of the city’s residents and weekend visitors about the intended effects and next phase of their HIV vaccin...
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12/01/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: HIV, AIDS, USF, healthcare, medical research
For the past 20 years, the World Health Organization has designated Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day. It was observed in several locations around the Tampa Bay area today, including at the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus where researchers are studying a microbicide that could be used to battle HIV infection.
Patricia Emmanuel is professor of Pediatrics at USF. Along with investigat...
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09/15/08 Concetta DeLucoWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: AIDS, HIV, AIDS Walk St. Petersburg
Lots of sunshine provided the backdrop for the fourth Annual AIDS Walk St. Petersburg on Saturday. Hundreds gathered in North Shore Park to provide support and participate in the event with the goal of raising funds and awareness for AIDS research and prevention.
The walk was sponsored by AIDS Service Association of Pinellas (ASAP), a division of the Hospice of Florida Suncoast and a nonprofit agency that provides services to people living with or affected by AIDS.
Carlos Milan is the ...
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