 To
help mark the 19th annual year of the Week of Prayer, the Balm In Gilead introduces
The Big Coffee Project,
a partnership between The Balm In Gilead and Sweet Unity Farms Gourmet Coffee,
a Tanzania-based company, to support the elimination of AIDS both in Africa
and the United States.
This partnership will generate funding directly supporting programs designed
to improve HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer prevention, treatment and care services
among people of the African Diaspora, which includes programs in the United
States and Tanzania.
Pour a Cup, Save a Life....Support the BIG Coffee Project - Purchase your bag
of coffee today! Shop On-line or
Call: 866-403-6718.
 Click
here to listen to The
Coffee Project PSA
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 Celebrating
19 Years!
The Balm In Gilead and the African American Faith Community are preparing for the 19th Annual Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS.
On March 2-8, 2008, we are turning our hearts and minds to the epidemic
in the African American community. We are asking every pastor throughout
Black America’s neighborhoods to join in this interdenominational bond,
along with our national leaders, to speak out against complacency, denial
and do-nothing attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS.
We have been living in the midst
of a life-threatening crisis for the past 25 years. Our children, ages
13-19, are now over 60% of those teens living with HIV in the United States
and
in some Black communities, our mothers and fathers - the elderly - have
HIV infection rates higher than those of our children. Our gay brothers,
fathers,
uncles have been screaming for attention to the AIDS epidemic for more
than a quarter of a century, while our mothers, sisters and aunts have been
silently
dying from shame and AIDS.
To learn more about the Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS and
find out how your church can join in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Click
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 At
the Black Church HIV/AIDS Training Institute, we invite all church ministries
to re-dedicate themselves to the critical role of “leader” as
we
seek God’s guidance in living through this sad hour of history, when over
25 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world today are of African ancestry. More >>> |
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 The
Black Church HIV Testing Campaign engages the support of the Black pulpit
to empower
and support individuals to get tested for HIV.
We are offering uplifting words of inspiration to those infected and affected
by HIV/AIDS and we are telling everyone in our community to take a stand and
help us stop the spread of HIV by getting
tested. More >>>
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 This
program provides direction for churches in several countries in Africa to implement
HIV awareness and education programs.The Goals Of The Africa HIV/AIDS Faith
Initiative
To build the capacity of the faith community in each country to:
Speak out against the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS; Educate people
about HIV/AIDS; Support and provide interventions that prevent mother-to child
HIV transmission;
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In an unprecedented moment in Black history, the national presidents of the women’s missionary society of The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and Christian Methodist Episcopal Church this week announced a partnership with The Balm In Gilead.
This partnership is also designed to build a sustainable health education
and service delivery system within African American faith communities that
will reach the masses. “This partnership serves as a historical marker
in the Black community,” said Pernessa Seele, Founder/CEO, The Balm In
Gilead. “It is the first time in history that three denominations have
banded together with a national technical assistance organization to address
health disparities on a comprehensive scale.”
More >
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 The ISIS Project, a national health initiative to increase public awareness about cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that causes cervical cancer. The mission of the ISIS Project is to educate and empower Black women about cervical cancer and HPV, and provide them with information on the need for regular screening to ensure early diagnosis and treatment.
Visit the ISIS Project website >>>
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The Balm In Gilead operates the nation's only HIV/AIDS technical assistance
center designed specifically to serve churches as well as public agencies
and community-based organizations that wish to work with Black churches on
AIDS issues.
The purposes of the National Faith-Based HIV/AIDS Training & Technical
Assistance Center are:
1. To enhance the ability of Black Churches to respond to HIV/AIDS, by
providing capacity building and technical assistance services, including:
2. To increase the cultural competence of public health professionals as
well as medical and other direct service providers to work appropriately
and effectively with the Black faith community.
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