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HIV does discriminate: The worldwide fight against stigma and discrimination AIDS 2014 is that HIV does discriminate. In the first of this three-part series, writer Linda Villarosa lays out the populations most at risk and spotlights sex workers’ fight for their rights. Next week, in “HIV Does Discriminate: The Worldwide Fight Against Stigma and Discrimination, Part 2,” learn about the issues facing sex workers. In the words of Michel Sidibé, the executive director of UNAIDS, “There will be no ending AIDS without putting people first, without ensuring that people living with and affected by the epidemic are part of a new movement.” By Linda Villarosa Part 1 In a reversal of a longstanding public health mantra, one of the key messages from
The first time I attended an International HIV/AIDS Conference, 12 years ago, a media trainer advised our group of journalists reporting on the event not to interview activists. “Stick to the scientists and focus on the serious stuff,” she said. I didn’t listen and later became a trainer myself. But that tension still exists: Scientists and policymakers deliver important presentations at frontand-center plenaries and press conferences, while activists are shuttled away to the Global
Village, the conference sideshow and host to edgy performances and community networking zones. But over the years, activists have shoved and screamed their way onto the podiums and into the forefront. At this summer’s AIDS 2014 event in Melbourne, Australia, they didn’t need to push so hard. For the first time, conference organizers married science and activism into every part of the proceedings. In other words, they acknowledged that the world will never reach the new 90-90-90 targets (by 2020, 90 percent of all PLWHA would know their status; 90 percent of those who know their status would be on treatment; and 90 percent of those on treatment would be virally suppressed) or ever get to zero new infections without the active engagement of the most affected communities and a collective fight against stigma and discrimination. A lack of progress on the scientific front accounted for some of the shift in focus at this
Stolen land; stolen legacy
Pictured l to r: Minnie Lee Irving, Butler Abney, Robert “Buster” Irving, Sallie Mae Irving Morgan, Andrew Irving, Thelma Joyce Irving Taylor and Alphonzo Irving. By Starla Vaughns Cherin African American David Irving purchased 110 acres of property in Saluda, South Carolina in 1917. A beautiful parcel of land bordered on the north by Clouds Creek. On the map it’s near Prosperity Highway and a remembrance of the American Revolution, the Clouds Creek Massacre of American patriots in 1781. Irving paid $2,750 on Nov. 28, 1917 in a deed that includes his heirs, 13 children, six boys and seven girls and their heirs. When Daddy Irving died in the 60’s his sons took over the land and began working it. When the last son died in 2001, Thelma Joyce Irving, Daddy’s baby girl, last surviving daughter began paying the land taxes. In 2003, Daughter Irving, now living in Chicago, received a phone call from her nephew in Saluda, saying Attorney Billy Coleman and the Irving’s
House built by David and first wife Sallie Mae (Williams) Irving 1917. neighbor, Richard Clark, are offering $5,000 to purchase land interest from Irving heirs.
Pleading Our Own Cause
Coleman had been a family friend and once helped when one of the sons was in trouble,
year’s conference. Although researchers in Melbourne did their best to put a positive spin on progress toward a cure, in reality, they didn’t have much to report. Unlike in 2008 in Vienna, when the results of the CAPRISA trial of a microbicide gel brought new hope for stemming HIV transmission in women; or in 2010 in Washington, D.C., when treatment as prevention became a public health priority, few promising results surfaced this time around. In fact, the most buzzedabout finding was the not-sogood news that the so-called Mississippi baby, thought to have been cured of HIV, had rebounded with detectable levels of the virus in her blood. Quick as a heartbeat, cure was downgraded to remission. Though her case may eventually lead to a way forward, and this little Black girl could prove to be a scientific hero someday, that day hasn’t arrived yet. (Cont'd on Page 5) but Daughter Irving didn’t think he would do this. She called him and said “Leave my family alone!” Someone please help! Twelve years later, at age 86, Daughter Irving is still fighting for the life of her family’s land and her father’s legacy. She employed an attorney who fought back two attempts at purchasing the property but has now decided to leave the case. She needs help. Daughter Irving is in need of a bull dog lawyer to stand up for her rights in Saluda County. She’s been issued a check for $14,000, supposedly her portion of interest in the land but she has not cashed it. She is contesting the sale of her father’s 110 acres. She has until the end of August when the check expires. She’s holding it hoping someone will come to her family rescue and represent them in this land grab case. “In 1935 after the Depression, a lot of Black people sold their land and moved north. My oldest brother was already living in Chicago making $15 a week but my daddy kept his land. He wanted it owned by the family until at least the sixth generation. This is the fifth generation,” says Thelma Joyce Irving. “My father was a smart Black man and a hard worker. Even the insides of his hands were Black. He was a very aggressive man and knew what he wanted. He didn’t like anyone who wouldn’t work or wasn’t smart. His family came out of slavery and he worked to purchase a horse and buggy and 110 acres on the east side surrounded by whites. We got along alright because my daddy had everything we needed on the farm. “I’m here to carry out what my daddy wanted. Did anyone ever call me and ask to purchase the property? No, they didn’t. My brother signed everything over to his wife when he died. I don’t know
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What to expect...Apostasy equals retribution and renunciation “You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, You have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your way, in your numerous warriors,” Hosea 10:13 (NASB) By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. For the past few weeks, we have seen the killing of innocent people all around the world from America to Pakistan. Each life taken from what many people feel to be a “senseless” loss has come at the hands of authorities. These murders-either military related, governmental appointed, or hate directed by racism - from sources of police departments across the United States of America are immediate indications of a Godless people. Displays of asinine behaviors have flourished because of the seeds sewn from a lack of respect and a total disregard to God’s greatest commandment: And He said to him, “you shall love the lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” Matthew 22:37 (NASB) How then can we continue along the paths of destruction with our political pandering, our one-sided school house teachings, racist police department policing and stuck-in-themud governmental governance, if we had just a mustard seed size of faith? Let’s be truthful. When we look at the deaths and beatings of Black people that have taken place over the past three years at the hands of the police departments across this country, what comes to your mind? (Cont'd on Page 12) how these in-laws get into it. I can see if a husband and wife work together on the land or for the land but how can a husband give away our father’s house?" Divide and conquer Son Robert Irving (Uncle Buster) was the last son acting as executor over the land. He had six children; three of his sons farmed the land and did the upkeep throughout the
years. When Uncle Buster died his will left his portion of the land interest to his wife. According to this will the land would revert to the children upon their mom’s death. Three years after Uncle Buster’s death, His daughter Patsy received power of attorney from her mother who was declared incompetent. (Cont'd on Page 3)
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