NBLCA's Health Action TV: Couples and HIV
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV, but 1 in 8 don’t even know it.
Watch the National Black Leadership Commission on Aids (NBLCA)’s Health Action TV for a discussion about the importance of HIV testing, knowing your partner’s HIV status, and how to have a healthy relationship if one or both partners have HIV. Plus, learn about the short film “90 DAYS.”
Leading the discussion is NBLCA’s President and CEO, C. Virginia Fields, and joining her are Kim Canady of HIV Stops With Me, CEO Christopher Johnson of LG2J Consulting and Executive Producer of “90 DAYS,” Richard Pelzer II.
Watch NBLCA’s Health Action TV on Sunday at 9:30 pm on MNN1 (TWC 34 & 1995, RCN 82, FiOS 33), MNN's HD Community Channel (TWC 1993), or streaming live on mnn.org.
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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