Colorado AIDS Project | Compassion Action Prevention
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Survivors mark World AIDS Day in Denver |
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As Bernadette Berzoza watched AIDS ravage her husband, she was certain that the virus, already dormant in her bloodstream, would attack her with the same ferocity and leave their children without parents. Nearly two decades later, Berzoza, 46, continues to fight the virus and educate the public about its deadly effects and the stigma that surrounds it. Today, she was among those attending a World AIDS Day rally at the state Capitol. |
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Our Country is Failing the AIDS Test |
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AIDS remains the world's No. 1 health threat and in the United States is a grave risk to black people in particular. As Phill Wilson, executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, put it, "AIDS in America is a black disease . . . about half of the just over 1 million Americans living with HIV or AIDS are black." Yet the disaster of AIDS in black or white America does not have to be this way. While a cure is still years away, a nation with U.S. literacy rates and levels of cultural and public-health sophistication is capable of greatly reducing its number of new infections. So why are new AIDS cases, particularly among blacks in urban areas, outpacing gains in control, treatment or education among high-risk groups? |
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CAP gives sense of family and support By Gary Massaro, Rocky Mountain News Published November 8, 2008 |
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The walk-in coolers, the freezers filled with meat and fish, vegetables and fruit represent hope for the people who come to the food bank of the Colorado AIDS Project. “They often don’t have homes. They don’t have families. They don’t have jobs,” said Mike Lee, marketing director. “Life is a basic struggle. On top of that, they’re HIV positive.” Nathan Johnson was out of work, out of a home, almost out of hope when he walked in to CAP last year. “I didn’t have any furniture. I didn’t have a job. I didn’t have much money. I only had some clothes,” said Johnson, 35, of Denver. “We are not homeless people getting HIV. We are people that grew up in your neighborhood and went to school with you or your children and have fallen into desperate times due to depression and fear.” Click here to read the complete Rocky Mountain News article... |
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