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NAACP Aids Awareness

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Founded in 2001 and observed every Feb. 7, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day's (NBHAAD) aim is to increase participation and support for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment among African Americans through a national community mobilization effort.

The NAACP continues to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic because of the disease’s alarming disproportionate impact on the African American community. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, while African Americans are only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they make up 49 percent of new AIDS cases. Seventy-two African Americans are infected with HIV every day. The vast majority do not know they are infected. Further, AIDS is the number one cause of death amongst Black women between the ages of 25 and 34 as well as of Black men between 35 and 44. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) reports the rate of AIDS diagnoses for black adults and adolescents in 2005 was 10 times the rate for whites and nearly 3 times the rate for Hispanics. 

“Blacks are also less likely to be screened for HIV, more likely to become infected, less likely to get treatment and more likely to die from AIDS. All that must change,” said NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond. “Black America must eliminate the homophobia from our culture that is perhaps the single greatest barrier to our ability to talk about AIDS. Black America cannot expect others to come to our aid until we commit to help ourselves. Many will continue to perish unless we commit to mobilize into a unified and mighty voice to transform this tragedy.”

HIV Counseling & Testing

California State University of Bakersfield
9001 Stockdale Hwy.
Bakersfield, CA 93311
661-664-2394


Clinica Sierra Vista - Kern Life Line Project
Kern Life Line Project
3550 Q Street, Suite 204
Bakersfield, CA 93301
661-324-3262

Kern County Department Of Health
Anonymous screenings year round for HIV and the AIDS disease FREE of Charge

1800 Mt. Vernon Ave.
Bakersfield, CA 93306
661-868-0503
275 W. Ridgecrest Blvd.
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
661-375-4310
8301 Segue Ave.
Delano, CA 93215
661-845-3744
315 North Lincoln, Room 150
Taft, CA 93268
661-763-8591
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Executive Committee
    • Office Of The President
    • NAACP History Timeline
  • Membership
    • Membership Payment
    • NAACP T-Shirts
    • NAACP Discount Card >
      • NAACP Discount Card Merchant Agreement
  • Social Justice
    • Legal Redress >
      • BPD Questions
      • Trayvon's Law
    • Criminal Justice
    • Education >
      • Speak Life
      • READERS ARE LEADERS Challenge
      • Stop the School to Prison Pipeline >
        • School Board Meetings
      • Million Father March
      • BCSD Mentor Program
      • BCSD Community Meeting
      • School Districts >
        • Kern High School District
        • Bakersfield City School District
    • Political Action >
      • Register To VOTE
      • Kern County Board of Supervisors
      • Mayor & City Council
  • Outreach
    • Youth & College >
      • DONATE: Youth & College
      • Readers Are Leaders Fundraiser
      • Youth Volunteer Form
      • Krispy Kreme Fundraiser
      • Student of the Week
      • Links Leadership Academy
      • RISE Mentoring
      • I CAN I WILL Scholarship Program
      • FREE CAHSEE Tutoring
      • Hope for the Homeless
    • Brothas United
    • Sistahs United
    • Economic Development >
      • Career Guidance Institute
      • Entrepreneur Extravaganza
      • NAACP Job Finder
      • Money Matters
      • 52 Week Challenge
    • Health Awareness >
      • Covered California >
        • Covered California Enrollment Application
      • NAACP Fitness Challenge
      • Cancer Research >
        • Cancer Awareness
      • Aids Awareness
      • Diabetes Awareness
      • Childhood Obesity
    • Fundraising Committee >
      • Eagle Mountain Trip
      • Naacp Award Nominations Form
      • NAACP Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner Tickets
    • Public Relations >
      • Juneteenth Vendor
      • NAACP Adopt A Family
  • Partners
  • Events
    • News