2005 SISTA 2 SISTA TO BEGIN SESSION

Jan 6th, 2005

Mobile, Alabama, December 20, 2004: Mobile AIDS Support Services in collaboration with Bay Area Women's Coalition is inviting African American women from Mobile County to join us as we seek to provide HIV prevention intervention. Contact June Reddix-Stennis, SISTA Project Coordinator, at (251) 471-5277 for more information. Here are the details of the project:

• SISTA - Sisters Informing Sisters about Topics on AIDS.


• The SISTA Project began one year ago.


• The project goal is to not didactically disseminate information informing people of risks, but to reduce the behaviors that place African American women at risk of HIV infection.


• The project targets African American women from Mobile County ages 19-29.


• The new session will begin Thursday, January 13th, 2005. They will continue every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month for five months.


• If a participant completes the five month session she will receive a stipend in the amount of $250.


• The sessions will take place 1700 Jessie St. in the Trinity Gardens community.


• As of May 12, 2003, 1,527 persons were living with HIV in Mobile County and of these African Americans constituted 65% of the HIV/AIDS cases. In the past two years the number of newly infected African American women has grown disproportionately to other demographic groups.


• AIDS is the leading cause of death in Mobile County for both African American men and women ages 25-44.