http://blog.wlrn.org en http://blog.wlrn.org/post/university-miami-medical-students-push-needle-exchange-program <p></p><p></p> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0000 Marva Hinton 11817 at http://blog.wlrn.org University of Miami Medical Students Push For Needle-Exchange Program http://blog.wlrn.org/post/fighting-hivaids-music-theater-honduras In the village of Corozal in Honduras, men ready boats for fishing excursions and boys play soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts.<p>On a sandy lot next to the town's main street, two teenage boys begin playing drums while women sing. For centuries, this has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has an additional purpose: to prevent HIV.<p>As people arrive to hear the drumming, the musicians become actors in a play. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:09:32 +0000 Jens Erik Gould 11631 at http://blog.wlrn.org Fighting HIV/AIDS With Music, Theater In Honduras http://blog.wlrn.org/post/poverty-access-issues-blamed-poor-health-browards-black-communities <p></p><p>Black residents of Broward County are much more likely than whites or Hispanics to experience infant mortality, obesity or HIV/AIDS, according to an alarming new report from the Urban League, and nobody should try to blame the results on poor lifestyle choices .</p><p>According to the Urban League's Danielle Doss-Brown, it's unarguably the result of poverty and lack of access to insurance and health care. Complicating it is a shortage of sources of healthy food in many black communities.</p> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 Rick Stone 8697 at http://blog.wlrn.org Poverty, Access Issues Blamed For Poor Health In Broward's Black Communities