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Us Helping Us launches new website
New site is more user friendly and linked to social media
Us Helping Us, People Into Living, Inc. (UHU) launched a newly designed website to kick off its efforts to outreach to young black gay men and engage them in its programs and services. The website, www.uhupil.org, is linked to UHU’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/uhupil, and its Twitter account, http://twitter.com/uhupil.
“The new website is the result of a $74,000 grant funded by Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic to incorporate social media into the programs and services of Us Helping Us,” says Ron Simmons, Ph.D., the President/CEO of Us Helping Us.
Read more: Us Helping Us launches new websiteBlack women and Black gay men continue to strategize about HIV/AIDS
For the past several years, members of the National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition and the Black Women's HIV/AIDS Network have met to develop a common strategy to advocate for federal HIV prevention and care resources. The initial meeting in 2008, a two-day gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, was held as a result of each organizations' observation that as the rate of HIV infection increased among Black gay men and Black women and funding for prevention, care and treatment were cut or remained stagnant, tensions were developing between the two populations.
Read more: Black women and Black gay men continue to strategize about HIV/AIDSDC study finds Black gay men to be disproportionately infected with HIV despite more condom use
A 2010 DC study of 500 gay men in the District of Columbia found a significant number of the Black gay men tested were HIV-infected. For Black gay men, age 30 years and older, the infection rate was 32% compared to 8% for White gay men aged 30 and over. For Black gay men under 30 years of age, 12% were HIV-infected while none of the White gay men under 30 years of age were infected.
Read more: DC study finds Black gay men to be disproportionately infected with HIV despite more condom use