Hey John,

Join us next week to kick off our CommuniTEA Week of Action, all leading up to National Women and Girls HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD)! Every year on March 10th, communities around the country work in partnership to raise awareness about the impact of HIV & AIDS on women and girls, and our week of events is led and organized by the Black women and girls of CommuniTEA. As always, we are working to move away from stigmatizing language about HIV risk and change the narrative to focus on REASONS that motivate and empower Black women and girls to address their sexual health. That's what we've been doing for years with the help of ViiV Healthcare's Positive Action Risk to Reasons Initiative.

The first event starts next week on Tuesday at 7pm with a Zoom panel called "Picture Perfect: Reframing the Narrative about Young Women and HIV in the Media." RSVP for that event here!

Below is a list of what else we're doing next week. Join us online for whatever you can make (even all of them!)

Check out next week's schedule!

MONDAY, 3/4 - CommuniTEA's NWGHAAD Social Media Toolkit Debut

With plenty of time for you to prep before Sunday, we’ll share a social media toolkit with ideas for how you can post about HIV's impact on Black women & girls for NWGHAAD. Keep an eye on your email for the toolkit drop!

TUESDAY, 3/5 @ 7pm EST - Picture Perfect: Reframing the Narrative about Young Women and HIV in the Media

Join us for a discussion about how news coverage, songs, TV, and movies play a vital role in shaping our thoughts and assumptions about young Black women & girls and HIV. This dynamic workshop will help us unlearn the stereotypical framing of HIV as it relates to Black women and girls and learn some ways we can reframe the narrative to support reducing HIV stigma and advocate for more access to prevention and treatment options. Come out to learn and share with LáDeia Joyce and Peggy. RSVP here.

WEDNESDAY, 3/6 - Take Action: #SaveHIVFunding

The House of Representatives has proposed an astonishing $767 million in cuts to HIV funding - essential programs like the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Ryan White Program! We need to rally to #SaveHIVFunding. Take action here, and use next Wednesday, March 6th, to share this letter-writing action online and with your community.

THURSDAY, 3/7 @ 7pm EST - Love Letters to Black Women: Exploring Healthy Relationships through the Lens of HIV Advocacy

Join us for a dynamic workshop led by Naiymah and Karmella about how HIV stigma and myths impact how young Black women and girls engage in relationships in their lives. Together, we will explore how to take what we know about healthy relationships, HIV advocacy, and black culture and apply it to our relationships with partners, friends, and family. Register here.

SUNDAY, 3/10 - Meet our CommuniTEA Youth Ambassadors

Happy Women and Girls National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day!! Visit our Instagram page to learn more about our 10 youth activists that will be working on the CommuniTEA project.

Join us next week as we amplify the voices of Black women and girls within the HIV movement.

In solidarity,

Char'Lee Marie King
Manager, HIV Campaigns
Advocates for Youth

P.S. The CommuniTEA Week of Action is funded and supported by ViiV Healthcare's Positive Action Risk to Reasons Initiative

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