What Is You, Me, HIV?You Me HIV is a campaign focusing on cisgender Black woman and HIV and AIDS initiatives. SisterReach wants to support our sisters living with this diagnosis and those most vulnerable to contracting this virus. We want to ensure Black women are informed and represented in HIV awareness.
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Our Focus is to:
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In the U.S.,the Black community is 13% of the population but make up 42% of all new HIV diagnoses each year (2018).
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Approximately 1 in 7 people areHIV positive and are unaware of their status. |
Every 35 minutesa woman tests positive for HIV in the U.S. |
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Black women are almost 18 timesmore likely to die from complications from HIV and AIDS as non-Hispanic white women. |
Among all women,Black women account for the largest share of new HIV diagnoses (58% in 2018), and their rate of new diagnoses is 14 times the rate among white women and almost 5 times the rate among Latina women. |
Black women are most likely to have contracted HIVthrough heterosexual transmission, the most common transmission route for women overall. Black women are LESS likely to acquire this virus through injection drug use than white women. |
In the metro Memphis area,for every 14 women diagnosed with HIV 13 of those women will be Black. Meaning that Black women account for 93% of all women diagnosed with HIV in our city. |
What Can You Do?
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Ladeia Joyce McNeal, MBA
disruptHER and Founder, The Positive Experience |
Ricky Edwards
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Miajenell Peake, MPH, CHES, CD (DONA)
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Mildred Richard-Edwards
Founder, I Am My SiStar |
Nikia Grayson
Director, Midwifery CHOICES Memphis Center for Reproductive Health |
Elise Saulsberry
Deputy Director, SisterReach |
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Cherisse Scott
Founder and CEO, SisterReach |
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