NBLCA's Health Action Tv: Fighting HIV/AIDS in Long Island
According to a report by the New York State Department of Health, over 6,200 Long Islanders were living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2013.
On this episode of NBCLA's Health Action TV, former Manhattan Borough President and current President and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on Aids (NBLCA), C. Virginia Fields talks with NBCLA program coordinators of Nassau and Suffolk counties, Barbara Laing and Johnny Mora about their efforts to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic on Long Island.
NBLCA’s Health Action TV airs every second Sunday of the month at 9pm on MNN1 (TWC 34 & 1995, RCN 82, FiOS 33), MNN’s HD Community Channel (TWC 1993) and streaming live on mnn.org.
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Health Action TV
Health Action TV is an effort of the National Black Leadership Commission on Health (NBLCH) to further its mission to educate, mobilize, and empower black leaders to meet the challenge of fighting HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, sickle cell, diabetes...
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