FAMU TV show discusses HIV/AIDS

With World AIDS Day coming up on December 1, FAMU-TV 20 has been running an original program produced at the university which seeks to educate and inform the community, in a factual manner, about HIV/AIDS. The show, HIV/AIDS 101, is a 30 minute health awareness program that discusses the History of HIV/AIDS, “Silence Is Death: HIV/AIDS Crisis In Florida’s Black Communities, and how HIV is transmitted.

Michael Thompson, PharmD, Professor and Assistant Dean at FAMU, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Shelia Morris, a Florida Department of Health Prevention/Training Consultant are interviewed on the program by James Moran,Ph.D., College of Pharmacy Public Affairs Coordinator.

“This program is very important to our community because HIV/AIDS doesn’t discriminate; it crosses all racial, ethnic, and socio-economic groups, ” said Moran. “It has gone too long hidden in the shadows, like an unspoken word. By exposing the impact that this disease has on our community, will hopefully reduce the number of HIV/AIDS cases not only in our communities but world-wide.”