This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, TWC will be celebrating the lives and struggles of Black women facing the epidemic with the following two events:

• Open Mic at LIV Nightclub / Tuesday, February 7 
  TWC will host an Open Mic event at LIV Nightclub, located at 2001 11th Street, NW at 6:00-10:00pm. The Women's Collective is collaborating with "Up and Up Open Microphone" to present "Protection Over Pleasure: Demystifying The Pleasure Principle in the Black Community".The event will feature happy hour specials, condom demonstrations, live performances around the theme, “I Am My Brother’s/Sister’s Keeper”starting at 7:00pm, and TWC’s mobile testing van will be parked outside the venue. Join us before the show begins during happy hour to see condom demonstrations, receive education and get any questions or concerns answered.For more information about the event, please contact Latishia.
  
• Happy Hour at Lace Lounge & Bar / Tuesday, February 7 
  Lace, located at 2214 Rhode Island Ave, NE. will be hosting a Happy Hour to celebrate Life! The Happy Hour will feature $3 rail drink specials and $4 wine through 7:00pm, as well as $5 rail drinks through midnight. There will also be food specials and a free Chef Tasting. Come enjoy good music and dancing. $5 donations will be greatly appreciated, all donations benefit The Women’s Collective.

For more events throughout DC please visit the HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD & TB Administration site for a complete listing!

WTOP's Thomas Warren's week-long series "Generation Positive" is an in-depth look at the HIV epidemic in the U.S. and Washington, D.C. He is taking a look at measures being taken to beat it, and breakthrough developments in the search for a vaccine in four web stories, as well as an eight-part series on-air.

Visit WTOP, find out more the series, and TWC and its work with women, girls and familes.