myHIN Blog

October 01, 2012

From Awareness to Action – A Brother Speaks

Many college and high school students seem to be afraid to mention the words and are often times forgetful of the impact that it has had in the African American Community. On September 7th 2012 the Eta Omicron Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. hosted an HIV and AIDS awareness program. The purpose of this program was to educate college students on the statistics and hard facts about the deadly virus and disease in our community.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has an initiative, Project Alpha, in which the brothers of this fraternity educate high school students on the risk of unprotected sex in relations to pregnancy and STDs. As college students, the fraternity felt like it was needed to provide this information to the students on campus. The lecture by Dr. Fay Cobb Payton was very effective and provided the appropriate information needed to address the miseducation that individuals have about HIV and AIDS. We decided to take action forward by providing a mobile testing site on campus which reduced the time and hassle for students to get tested at the clinic or a local physician. It is very important that we know our status for we can help stop the spread of the virus.

The brothers of the Eta Omicron Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. would like to extend a special thank you to myHealthImpact for its assistance and we look forward to working with them in the future to continue to spread the education of HIV and AIDS. Give them a shout out @myhealthimpact on Twitter.