
Pernessa Steele, founder of the Balm in Gilead nonprofit and an ordained minister, is keynote speaker for the prayer breakfast concluding National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS.
Submitted/Paul V. Grant-Ascender Communica
For 30 years, churches — black churches, in particular — have dedicated a week to focus on prayer for the healing and elimination of the HIV virus.
It seems at least some of those prayers are being answered.
— Between 2013-2017 in Tennessee, the number of new HIV diagnoses decreased among all ages, men and women, and nearly every race — including a dramatic decrease of 30 percent among black women, who make up one-third of new HIV cases in Tennessee despite representing only 17 percent of the population. Read More