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[00:-1.00]Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
[00:-2.00]as diagnosed in the United States in the late 1970s.
[00:-3.00]Since then, AIDS has killed more than 204,000 Americans
[00:-4.00]half in the past few years alone.
[00:-5.00]Another 185,000 of the one million infected with the HIV virus
[00:-6.00]are also expected to die.
[00:-7.00]Nearly half of those diagnosed with the virus are blacks and Latinos.
[00:-8.00]Women and youth in rural Southern communities
[00:-9.00]now constitute the fastest growing segment of people with AIDS.
[00:10.00]Despite such alarming numbers,
[00:11.00]the federal and state governments have been slow in implementing programs
[00:12.00]to stop the spread of AIDS.
[00:13.00]In place of government inactivity,
[00:14.00]a number of local organizations have emerged.
[00:15.00]One organization, the South Carolina AIDS Education Network,
[00:16.00]formed in 1985 to combat the growing number of AIDS cases.
[00:17.00]Like many local organizations,
[00:18.00]this organization suffers from a lack of money,
[00:19.00]forcing it to use its resources creatively.
[00:20.00]To reach more people in the community,
[00:21.00]some AIDS educational programs operate out of a beauty shop.
[00:22.00]The owner hands out AIDS information to all her clients
[00:23.00]when they enter the shop and shows videos on AIDS prevention
[00:24.00]while they wait for their hair to dry.
[00:25.00]She also keeps books and other publications around
[00:26.00]so customers can read them while waiting for their appointments.
[00:27.00]It's amazing how many people she has educated on the job.
[00:28.00]Recently, the network began helping hair stylists throughout the Southeast
[00:29.00]set up similar programs in their shops.
[00:30.00]They are also valuable resources in spreading information to their schools,
[00:31.00]community groups, and churches.
[00:32.00]The organization has developed several techniques useful to other groups
[00:33.00]doing similar work.
[00:34.00]While no one way of winning the war against AIDS exists,
[00:35.00]the network shares these lessons learned in its battle against AIDS:
[00:36.00]Speak to your community in a way they can hear.
[00:37.00]Many communities have a low literacy rate,
[00:38.00]making impossible passing out AIDS literature
[00:39.00]and expecting people to read it.
[00:40.00]To solve this problem, ask people in the community
[00:41.00]who can draw well to create low-literacy AIDS education publications.
[00:42.00]These books use simple, hand-drawn pictures of "sad faces"
[00:43.00]and "happy faces" to illustrate ways people can prevent AIDS.
[00:44.00]They also show people who look like those we need to educate,
[00:45.00]since people can relate more
[00:46.00]when they see familiar faces and language they can understand.
[00:47.00]As a result, such books actually have more effect
[00:48.00]in the communities where they are used than government publications,
[00:49.00]which cost thousands of dollars more to produce.
[00:50.00]Train teenagers to educate their peers.
[00:51.00]Because AIDS is spreading fastest among teenagers in the rural South,
[00:52.00]the stylists have established an "AIDS Busters"program
[00:53.00]which trains youth from 8 to 26 to go into the community
[00:54.00]and teach "AIDS 101" to their peers.
[00:55.00]They make it simple and explain the risk of catching AIDS to friends
[00:56.00]their own age much better than an adult can.
[00:57.00]They also play a vital role in helping parents
[00:58.00]understand the types of peer pressure their children experience.
[00:59.00]Redefine "at risk" to include women from different backgrounds
[-1:00.00]and marriage status.
[-1:-1.00]One woman's doctor told her she was not at risk for AIDS
[-1:-2.00]because she was married and didn't use drugs.
[-1:-3.00]Such misinformation plagues the medical establishment.
[-1:-4.00]According to the Centers for Disease Control,
[-1:-5.00]women will soon make up 80 percent of those diagnosed with HIV.