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Volume XI, Issue
No. 8
September, 2005
HIV/AIDS Volunteer
Enrichment Network
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Volume XI, Issue
No. 8
September, 2005
HIV/AIDS Volunteer
Enrichment Network
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HAVEN Today and Tomorrow VI
HOW ARE WE DOING?
Saturday, October 1, from noon to 4 p.m.
Mt. Olive AME Church, 2 Hicks Ave
(off West Street in Annapolis)
Our sixth HAVEN-wide planning retreat
will focus on the programs we are currently providing. Everyone in the HAVEN community is invited
to participate in this special event.
We will be looking at the ways in which we are fulfilling our mission,
which is to
Are we providing the right programs for
today’s PLWHA’s? Could we do more—or
less—of anything? Could we do things
differently? Are there new activities
we might consider?
Whether you are
a volunteer, a consumer, a staff member, a support group facilitator, a case
manager, or a board member, we want you to come with your own questions and
willingness to help create answers. Our
own Bob Davis, board president, will be leading us in this programmatic
evaluation. Jerry & Sheila, whose
church is offering us the space, will be feeding us!
Please let me
know if we will have the pleasure of your participation. Thanks.
Diane Goforth,
Executive Director
Phone: 410-544-2244 Email: DSGoforth@aol.com
P.S.
If you need a ride, please call Tony at the
office (410-544-2244).
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
By Tony Teano
September is
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. On September 15th, Associated Black Charities’ Ryan
White Title I Community Education Program will have an event to educate the
community about the effects of HIV/AIDS and addiction and also to drive home
the point that treatment works. The
event will be at the Belvedere Hotel, One East Chase Street, in the Charles
Room from 8:30 AM to noon.
Important Announcement
About HAVEN Friends
By Peggy Bruce and Vance Larson
Beginning in
September, HAVEN Friends will be held on the 4th Thursday of the month from 7
to 8:30 PM. To find out what the scheduled event is, and to confirm
its whereabouts, call the office. Occasionally, HAVEN Friends may run
until 9 PM depending upon the activity. Tentatively, HAVEN Friends will
go miniature golfing in September.
C2EA Update
By Tony Teano
The Campaign to
End AIDS (C2EA) is a national grassroots coalition of people living with
HIV/AIDS and individuals
and organizations, all united in action to demand a far more urgent and humane
response by our government to end the pandemic and to help people living with
HIV/AIDS. If you would like to find out
more about their efforts, visit www.EndAIDSNow.org. Several months ago, HAVEN joined hundreds of individuals and
community-based agencies in support of the C2EA’s initiatives.
The campaign has
been working with local communities and agencies like HAVEN to coordinate a
national caravan that will culminate in a march in Washington, D.C.,
in October. From October 8th
through 12th, C2EA will converge with Days of Action, Support, and
Prayer.
The C2EA are looking for volunteers to help with these and other
activities. If you would like to become
involved in workgroups, please feel free to contact them directly by visiting
the website mentioned above. Typical workgroups
include those focusing on the caravan, national platform, youth initiative, and
faith-based participation.
Tentatively, the
C2EA caravan will be in Maryland in the first week of October (1-Joppatowne,
2-Rosedale, 3 & 4-Baltimore, 5-Jessup, 6-College Park), and they hope to
arrive at the Lincoln Memorial on October 7.
Converging at the Lincoln Memorial makes a poignant reference to
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign—a call on the poor and
front-line service agencies, and faith, political and labor-based organizations
to support caravans and mule trains to Washington to demand government action
on a plethora of social justice issues.
The C2EA combines a renewed commitment to Dr. King’s dream with
redoubled energy around HIV/AIDS issues in order to affect change.
Won’t you be a
part of it?
From The Body
By Tony Teano
Here are some excerpts of relevant, interesting
news from The Body:
HAART Beats -- Highly
Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) can slow
HIV progression rate to AIDS by 86% when compared with no treatment, according
to a study published in the July 30 issue of the Lancet. These data are based on UK university review of more than
3,200 patients records from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study; the selected
records were after 1996,
when HAART became available in Switzerland.
Drug
Resistant HIV -- Recently, the BBC reported that UK’s Health
Protection Agency said that viruses are increasingly becoming resistant to the
drugs used to treat them. After a study
of about 4,450 patients on anti-retroviral drugs for six years, they found that
after two years on HAART, 10% of the patients had become resistant to some of
the drugs, 20% had developed resistance after four years and 30% had become
resistant after six years.
A+ For Quilting Bee
By Tony Teano
Many thanks to
Tineke Tan for her commitment to conserve the original HAVEN quilt. The quilt is more than a decade old, and it
has been at countless HAVEN events.
Tears here, pulls there, honeycomb cells undone… the passing of time took its toll. But that was no match for Tineke’s tender
loving care. Each cell was reinforced
by hand-stitching, and even many details within each cell were lovingly
reattached. Sturdy Roman tabs are now
at the top for a pole, just like you see on many curtains, rather than the slot
the pole was inserted through that ran the length of the quilt. The back of the quilt has been stabilized
with a sheet. I’d say the quilt is
ready for another ten years of proud usage!
Again, thanks, Tineke, for responding to this need.
HAVEN
Telephone Numbers
Bob Davis, President
703-841-4460 email: bdavis@caci.com
or: write to P.O. Box 514, Arnold, MD 21012
or: Diane or Tony can have him call you.
Executive
Director
Diane Goforth
(410) 544-2244
Director of Volunteers & Client Services
Tony Teano
(410) 224-2437
Housing
Director & Buddy Services Coordinator
Vance Larson
(410) 672-7571
Our
House Resident Manager
Sharon Dawson
(Reach through Vance or Diane)