Music Is Life Magazine

♪Music Is Life Magazine is a urban lifestyle Magazine based in Washington, DC. 
 The Magazine is a online based Magazine that will be devoted to showing  you
how music effects our everyday lives. The Magazine will be  released monthly and will recognize the people/artists from the DMV and from ALL over who will do what it takes to make it to the top. We also do charity events like the Mya Art and Tech Foundation dealing with inner city youth. Artist, promoters or whomever can place ads for upcoming shows, events, HIV awareness, anything related to the city and to make the city aware of what’s going on.

 

HIV/AIDS in the Washington, DC Metro Community

 

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimate that more than one million Americans are living with HIV. Up to one-third of them do not know they are HIV-positive.

• It's estimated that one in every 20 adults in the District of Columbia is infected with HIV.

• DC has a higher rate of HIV infection than most sub-Saharan African nations.

• DC has the highest rate of new AIDS cases per 100,000 people in the United States -- a rate that is 12 times the national average.

• In DC, the greatest increase in AIDS cases is occurring among people of color, women, injection drug users and through heterosexual contact.

• In DC, African-Americans account for eight out of every 10 cases of AIDS.

• More than 15,000 people in the Washington metropolitan area live with AIDS. Tens of thousands more people are estimated to be infected with HIV.

 

I think first as a community (DMV) & artists we need to come together and unite to do a better job of educatinf others about the risk of having unprotected sex. We can obviously see by the numbers that the AIDS risk is definitely real and rising in our community. Part of the problem is a lot of people believe that it will never happen to them or that they are immune, that is not the case at all! I commend networks such as BET and people like Tigger who are dedicated to getting people out to get tested, as well as campaigning for everyone to practice safe sex! Each one teach one! We may not save everyone, but if we can reach/get through to one person, we have done our jobs. So let's do it!

 

-Dee Woodz

 

 I agree with Dee Woodz The DMV as a whole its Community & Artist's must come together

help educate the people of the DMV. We have a serious problem here In the District of Columbia, 3 percent of the population has been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, a rate not seen since what was considered the height of the epidemic in the 1990's in San Francisco. According to Shannon Hader  The Director of  The Department of Health HIV/AIDS Administration In DC,  Our rates are higher than West Africa,

Prince George's County in Maryland has the second-highest rate of reported HIV/AIDS cases statewide.

The county also has the second-highest rate of sexually transmitted infections, According  to County Health Officer Donald Shell  adding that only Baltimore is higher in both categories.

I am pleading with everybody to please help fight this severe epidemic before its to late .

Do your part to help  practice  safe sex and don't share needles

Dee Woodz said it best Each One Teach One !!!!

 

- Ju

 

 

Department of Health HIV/AIDS Administration In DC

Director: Shannon L. Hader, MD, MPH  

64 New York Avenue, NE
Suite 5001
Washington, DC 20002

Telephone Number: (202) 671-4900

The HIV/AIDS Administration partners with health and community-based organizations to provide HIV/AIDS prevention and care services to District and Washington area eligible residents. Services include medical support, HIV counseling and testing, data and information on HIV/AIDS programs and services as well as on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the community, education, information, referrals, and intervention services. A drug assistance program (ADAP) provides drugs at no cost to eligible District residents who are HIV positive or have AIDS. The HIV/AIDS Administration administers the District’s budget for HIV/AIDS programs, provides grants to service providers, monitors programs, and tracks the incidence of HIV and AIDS in the District of Columbia. Select from the following links to find out more about HIV/AIDS services, reports, and programs.

 

 

1-866-RAP-IT-UP or RAP-IT-UP.com