On February 6, 2010, Theresa Skipper, TWC Plus! activist spoke with NPRs Audie Cornish. The article, Program Gets AIDS Patients To The Doctor, aired on Weekend Edition. It notes that in the nation's capital, African-Americans make up more than 75 percent of the city's HIV/AIDS cases. To combat the disease and its spread, advocates and city health officials have decided to try to improve the link between being tested and being treated. Washington, D.C., and the Bronx in New York will be the site of a pilot research program designed to connect patients with a doctor, and put those patients on anti-retroviral medication as soon as they are diagnosed.

Listen to Theresa and/or learn more about the PLUS (Positive Leaders Uplifting Sisters) program by contacting Iris Jacob. PLUS! seeks to uplift women living with HIV/AIDS and train them to raise their voices locally and nationally at policy tables and forums where women's voices and experiences should be a vital part of the solutions on how to address HIV/AIDS in our communities.

Some text from National Public Radio.