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Facts on Toy Safety

It’s that time of year……. If you’re shopping today, don’t you want to make sure you’re buying safe toys? We review the literature and give you the goods. While you’re out and about shopping for toys, print out this list to help you select safe toys, then post it in your home to be reminded […]

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Give & Go to Fight Cancer

In memory of Brother Stuart Scott, a notable ESPN sportscaster and anchor, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is proud to join forces with @TheVFoundation and @ESPN for the “Give & Go to Fight Cancer” campaign to raise funds for cancer research. This month-long initiative will drive awareness and support for The Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer

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HIV Awareness Month Cont.

Signs and Symptoms of HIV and AIDS While the virus itself can sometimes cause people to feel sick, most of the severe symptoms and illnesses of HIV disease come from the opportunistic infections that attack the infected individual’s compromised immune system. When HIV infection progresses to AIDS, many people begin to suffer from fatigue, diarrhea,

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Today is World AIDS day

This isn’t 1983. The mystery of how HIV infection is contracted has come and gone. Be knowledgable to be empowered. How HIV Lives First, let’s address a simple principle. The HIV virus can live and reproduce in high levels in blood other body fluids, including breast milk, rectal mucus, semen (and pre-semen) and vaginal fluids.

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