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Women's Health Weekly (12.25.03) - Wednesday, December 24, 2003
"By partnering with organizations in small towns and big cities across the South, we hope to help slow the increasing incidence of HIV/AIDS," said Caroline Roan, secretary of the Pfizer Foundation. "We know that tackling HIV/AIDS - the most catastrophic health challenge of our time - demands that we work and partner together as governments and communities, and as corporations and foundations," Roan said.
Pfizer grantees are operating an array of programs, including: *International AIDS Empowerment, which targets the El Paso border area. Its Caring Through Education component trains HIV-positive clients to become spokespeople to tell their story to schoolchildren and youth. *Mother's Voices, a parent- child education program in Miami offering Parents Educating Parents workshops and Raising Healthy Kids and Heart 2 Heart seminars. *The AIDS Resource Council in Rome, Ga., which uses its Friday Night Out program to help African-American women in rural housing developments learn prevention methods. *Chattanooga-based Methodist Health Foundation/Community HIV Network, which trains local barbers and beauticians as peer educators as part of its Project Stylin'. *The South Mississippi AIDS Task Force in Biloxi, which trains its peer youth educators to produce and star in their own HIV/AIDS theater production.
The South is home to 46 percent of the estimated new HIV/AIDS cases in the United States since 2001. While the region accounts for just more than one-third of the total population, it has an estimated 40 percent of US residents living with AIDS.
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