DC Speakout on HIV/AIDS & Neighborhood March November 3rd, 2007

As part of this year’s American Public Health Association annual meeting in Washington, DC, on November 3, DC Fights Back! and the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association welcome you to join us for a Community Speak Out & Neighborhood March on HIV/AIDS

Customarily, the local APHA affiliate in the city hosting its annual meeting sponsors an activity exhibiting local public health work. Given that our nation’s capital has one of the highest AIDS rates in the country and as many as one in 20 residents are HIV positive, we have organized two events to engage more people in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and to discuss the relationship between ill-health, HIV, and the many social disparities that exist in our nation’s capital.

We expect a broad cross section of participants: from folks attending the APHA annual meeting to community members, activists, and city officials. We will march through the neighborhood to raise awareness and decrease stigma and at the Speak Out, we will describe DC’s HIV epidemic, discuss what is being done to address HIV and what more needs to happen. We will hear testimony from community members, listen to presentations from representatives of other States, and move towards consensus on action items that the District of Columbia can take to help end new HIV infections.

Please join us for both events!

Neighborhood March: 12 noon, November 3
starting from the corner of Malcolm X and MLK, SE

Speak Out: 2pm, November 3
Washington Highlands Library
115 Atlantic St. SW DC

Download the flyer for this event