Ingrid
Floyd: Executive Director of IRIS HOUSE
Believe it or not, it has been 29 years since the
first case of AIDS and HIV was diagnosed, according to the CDC .
. . and there are still new cases being reported. This is a disease
that is preventable, but according to experts; the rate of HIV infections
among African-American women, Hispanic women and the teen population
is increasing.
Audrey Adams spoke with Ingrid Floyd, Executive Director
of Iris House . . . the nation’s first HIV/Aids agency
to provide family focused services to women of color infected and
affected by HIV about the important services Iris house provides
and the work her agency does in the community, the challenges she
faces; what she feels is needed to make a difference and stop the
increase of the rate of infection of the virus . . . and what women
can do to protect themselves from possibly becoming infected. (Photograph
copyright Iris House,Inc.)
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