The Fight Against AIDS (1705)

Initial Air Dates:
Tuesday, February 17, 2004

The safe sex message is out in the open but HIV/AIDS disease has taken the Black community under siege. The Fight Against AIDS puts face on the disease exploring what its like to live with the disease and how it is effecting on the Black community.

The show features Minister Carolyn Jenkins Peneda, author of Preaching with AIDS. Peneda shares her journey of how she contracted the disease in 1984 and is now living with full blown AIDS. "Faith" a sixteen year old that was been HIV positive will also share her story about living as an HIV positive teen. Dr. Jim Oleske, Director for the Division of Pulmonary, allergy, immunology and infectious diseases at University Hospital sheds light on "Faith," her prognosis and how far the medical community has come in treating HIV/AIDS

Commentator, author and former White House Aide, Keith Boykin also passionately responds to a New York Times cover story on gay men who lead double lives and live on the "down low." He gives insight on what it will take to encourage dialogue about the epidemic.

Guests include Lawrence Ganges, Assistant Commissioner for the Division for HIV/AIDS for New Jersey's Department of Health & Senior Services and Rosalind Ford of the Hyacinth AIDS Foundation provide viewers with information on programs and resources that are in place for those in need of assistance.

Resources:

• The Hyacinth Aids Foundation 800-433-0254
• NJ Division of HIV/Aids Services 609 984-5874
• yaskus.org

Major funding for Another View is provided by
Schering-Plough