Applying a Social Justice Framework to Prevention Programming for Black Women
1. Applying a Social Justice Framework to Prevention Programming for Black Women By Kimberleigh J. Smith, MPA Director, Women’s Institute Gay Men’s Health Crisis October 8, 2008
3. Complexity of HIV/AIDS Among African-American Women: A Syndemic Network Adapted from The Landscape of HIV/AIDS among African American Women in the United States , NASTAD May 2008
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Hello: Again, my name is Kimberleigh Smith and I am the Director of the Women’s Institute at Gay Men’s Health Crisis. My brief comments this evening will pick up where Tracie and Hadiyah began and explore and make the case to promote a social justice framework and philosophy in advancing HIV prevention policy and programmatic strategies for Black women. I speak from my perspective as a program director, who oversees prevention programming for women at a large AIDS service organization, whose work often bridges program and policy solutions, as an issues advocate with a very personal commitment to contributing to the health of my communities – those being African-American, people of color, women, lesbian and many, many more roles and identities I subscribe to. This is not a radical departure from CHAMP’s overall approach, in fact it’s not a departure at all. It is my hope that this panel discussion, with my particular presentation, will motivate us to be that much more rigorous in our approach to HIV prevention, as it relates to Black women.
