National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The National Council of Negro Women Inc. is collaborating with Howard University Health Center, Substance Abuse HIV/AIDS Outreach Program (SHOP), and Project SHAPE to observe the National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day at Howard University, March 3, 2011.  National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a nationwide observance that encourages people to take action in the fight against HIV/AIDS and raise awareness of its impact on women and girls.

Women face unique challenges when it comes to preventing and treating HIV.  Although HIV is more prevalent in men, about one-quarter of people in the United States living with HIV are women according to the National Women’s Health Information Center.

Coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health (OWH), 

NCNW will be holding health fair exhibits with conjunction with message therapy sessions, relationships and communication sessions, film screening and discussion, as well as HIV testing from 11am-3pm at the Blackburn Center Ballroom at Howard University.

NATIONAL BLACK HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY 2011

"It Takes a Village to Fight HIV," that is the theme of this year’s National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), held on February 7, 2011.  NBHAAD is a national initiative to better educate African Americans about HIV testing and treatment that has been occurring for the past 11 years.   

HIV/AIDS is a crisis within African American community with more than 49 percent of cases in 2007, according to the Office of Minority Health.  What makes the statistics even more menacing is among all ethnicities affected with HIV/AIDS African American women have a disproportionate rate of infection.  In 2007, 61 percent of new cases of HIV infection were black women According to Family Foundation HIV/AIDS, while more than 35 percent of black women were diagnosed with AIDS a year later.  

This is a call to action for the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.  We must actively participate in the research, treatment, and prevention of HIV/AIDS, especially in its reach toward the direction of Black women and communities worldwide. 

The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. will be holding events at Howard University and Bennett College on February 7, 2011, in order to spread awareness to this issue.  Please See attached flyers for more information.


These events were made in part by the Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI)  and the Office of Minority Health.(OMH)

"No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat." 

Dorothy Height