| Part of Series | Making Contact |
| Length | 29:00 |
| Licensor | National Radio Project |
| Producer(s) | National Radio Project |
| Formats | Enterprise/Investigative, Hard Feature, Weekly Program |
| Topics | African American, Health, Women |
| Produced | Unspecified |
| Added to PRX | November 16, 2007 |
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Those on the frontlines of the grassroots HIV/AIDS movement bring the discussion about HIV risk up to date. They say generating more relevant prevention models is literally a matter of life and death.
Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Managing Show Producer: Pauline Bartolone
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Contributing Producer: Noah Chandler
Interns: Samson Reiny, Joaquin Palomino, and Elena Botkin-Levy
December: World AIDS Day
Edgy, Intimate, Unconventional
English
In the United States, HIV/AIDS is no longer just a disease affecting white, gay men. The percentage of cases of women living with HIV has tripled in the past 20 years, and women of color are most affected. Yet outdated perceptions about the epidemic drive government prevention work, from the way data is collected to who gets tested.
On this edition, those on the frontlines of the grassroots HIV/AIDS movement bring the discussion about HIV risk up to date. They say generating more relevant prevention models is literally a matter of life and death.
Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Managing Show Producer: Pauline Bartolone
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Contributing Producer: Noah Chandler
Interns: Samson Reiny, Joaquin Palomino, and Elena Botkin-Levy
Featuring: Silvia Martei, Positive Woman in Oakland,CA; Naina Khanna, WORLD community outreach coordinator; Carrie Broadus, National Association of People with AIDS; Waheedah Shabazz-El, ACT-UP Philadelphia member, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and Philadelphia FIGHT community organizer/trainer; Kenyon Farrow, Prevention Justice Mobilization Communications coordinator and Queers for Economic Justice board member; Ginger Virago, Harm Reduction Specialist and Saint James Infirmary board member, and 'Positive She' Case Worker, a University of San Francisco program for HIV-positive women; Esther Lucero, San Francisco Native American AIDS Project HIV case manager; L. Nyrobi N. Moss, Sister Love sexual health educator; Dazon Dixon Diallo, Sister Love intervention specialist founder/chief executive officer; Lisa Diane White, Sister Love program manager
