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HIV/AIDS Education Project Targeting Pennsylvania Black Women Examined
August 19th, 2010
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette profiled the Girlfriends Project, a domestic violence and HIV/AIDS education program implemented by the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force that targets at-risk black women in three Allegheny County, Pa., cities. Blacks “comprise just 7 percent of the total population in southwestern Pennsylvania but 41 percent of those living with HIV/AIDS, according to Allegheny County Health Department statistics provided by the task force,” the Post-Gazette reports. “The Girlfriends Project was designed for Braddock, Clairton and Duquesne “because we knew nobody was doing outreach there,” project coordinator, Lisa Dukes, said. As part of the project, Dukes hosts Tupperware party-style gatherings in homes of residents where she provides HIV testing and education, sexual health information, safe sex products and cash gift cards. The project is an outgrowth of the CDC’s prevention program Sisters Informing Sisters About Topics on AIDS, or SISTA, and has been so successful that CDC “has asked the task force to introduce it at the CDC’s 2009 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta Aug. 23,” the article states (Smith, 7/29).
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