ashville,
Tennessee has more to boast about than country music and the Grand Ol’ Opry!
The city is home to some of the best HIV/AIDS prevention and care services
in the South. And the Metro-Nashville Education Association (MNEA) has joined
the effort with a workplace education program for school employees.
a chance to learn more about their community’s response to the epidemic
at an afternoon chat ‘n’ chew sponsored by a grant from the NEA Health Information
Network’s HIV/AIDS Education Project for School Employees. Presentations
were made by guest speakers from Nashville CARES, a community-based AIDS
organization, and Nashville’s Prevention Marketing Initiative, a prevention
project targeting 12-15 year old African Americans in Nashville’s low income
areas.
selected this year to plan HIV prevention projects for their members. The
other pilot sites — Candia, NH; Chesapeake Beach, MD; Lansing, MI; and
Seattle, WA — are each developing training and educational workshops for
school personnel and community members on HIV and hepatitis transmission,
prevention, and workplace policy. The project is funded by a cooperative
agreement with the CDC Labor Responds to AIDS Program. (See announcement
for the National Conference on page 2.)
excited about the outcome of this year’s workshop. “It was just what
our members needed — a chance to sit down and talk about HIV/AIDS and all
the sensitive issues that come up when you mention those words. Denial and
stigma around AIDS is still the norm for most people in Nashville, even
teachers. Now we have begun to educate ourselves and are committed to bringing
this wealth of knowledge in the community to our schools.”
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