A program sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute and Verizon Wireless encourages college students in Atlanta to design HIV/AIDS mobile-phone public service announcements to promote youth testing, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (ajc.com, 4/26).
Five teams of students filmed short videos, which are being reviewed by officials from the CDC, Verizon and local AIDS-service organizations. The initiative plans to have videos ready for release to the public by National HIV Testing Day, June 27.
“We are especially concerned about HIV and younger people,” said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS. “We have to make sure our messages are innovative, relevant and culturally competent.”
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I think that it's OK to be angry. I am sometimes—it's natural—we are HIV positive. but I always try to not let myself stay there too long. Let yourself feel you are human. You should not beat yourself up about being angry."
