Sunday, April 17, 2016

Milestones at BayHeal November 2015-March 2016





1. November 2015-December 2015

-Applying Public Health Science to synthesize what works e.g., continue redesigning learning tools such as list of venues and events where Africans in the Bay Area live and socialize.

-familiarizing excursion around the  San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California first, last Sunday and Thursday of every month.

- Improve on  list of Universities, Education Institutes, Colleges and Schools where Africans go to.

NB. Bay Area Healthy Living and Communication Support as a distinct health information, education, communication, equity and disparity stop gapping organization. Not to replace or replicate what "other civil rights" organizations are doing. This is an "essential" commodity/ consumer services organization.

Provided report to UCSF/ACTG/CAB end of year meeting.

JANUARY 2016- APRIL 2016

- Continuing with the research work

-Travel to meet Africans in the Bay Area ( Richmond, Dublin-Pleasanton, Millbrae, San Jose, San Rafael, Oakland, Daly City and San Francisco). So far, we have used 77 events to talk about health, physical activity and nutrition to immigrants.

- Provided 5 telephone-based talks on Zika virus as part of on-going Maternal, Infant and Child Health (MICH) Initiatives.

- Sent proposal to International AIDS Society to present a mentoring session at Durban, South Africa in July 2016 on Immigrant Health.

- Engaged in continued advocacy efforts to delineate and identify characteristics of intentional and unintentional transmission of HIV. Try to design tools to empower partners in partner notification skills and negotiated safer sex practices and rights/responsibilities surrounding consent to sexual intercourse. This is in preparation to the National HIV is Not a Crime Conference in Alabama in May 2016.

- Engaged with the San Francisco County Population and Health Division during a support and empowerment meeting prior to a training in Durban, South Africa in July 2016.

Continue with health advocacy............




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