The $42-million funding stream will benefit 133 agencies nationwide, including The Philadelphia AIDS Consortium, Mazzoni Center, Family Planning Council and Public Health Management Corporation, as well as AIDS Care Group in Chester.
The new grant program folded several former multi-year funding cycles that were nearing completion into one and seeks to expand prevention efforts among the hardest-hit populations.
“This funding is a critical part of CDC’s national HIV prevention efforts and is in line with the priorities identified in the recently released National HIV/AIDS Strategy,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. “Governments on the federal and state levels cannot end this epidemic alone, and these resources will help to give many communities the tools they need to fight HIV locally.”
HIV/AIDS service organizations were eligible for funding from the program’s Category A, which targets ethnic and racial minorities, or Category B, which focuses on members of high-risk groups, like men who have sex with men (MSM).
Ron Powers, Mazzoni director of programming, said the health facility has received HIV prevention monies from the CDC in some form or another since 2000, and will put this new $337,248 annual grant toward continuing three of its intervention projects: HIV counseling, testing and referral services for MSM of color, for which it collaborates with Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative; comprehensive risk-counseling services for HIV-positive or high-risk men to cut down on the risk of future transmission or infection; and its community-outreach program Get Real.
Get Real tells the real stories of local men — such as their coming-out experiences or their challenges living with HIV — as a way to promote public discussions about sexual health and HIV prevention and is a joint project of Mazzoni and PHMC, which has provided the research resources for the program.
Powers explained that Get Real’s five-year funding was coming to a close around the same time the new CDC funding opportunity opened, so Mazzoni decided to request for the continuation of the program under the new grant.
Akil Pierre, project coordinator of PHMC’s Preventing AIDS Through Live Movement and Sound, served as the lead organizer of his agency’s CDC proposal, the first major federal request Pierre has spearheaded. He said the lengthy application process was nerve-wracking, as was the site visit from CDC officials, which were granted to the top-ranking agencies vying for the money.
PHMC was awarded just over $300,000 annually from the Category A funds, which it will use for two new programs.
The Sisters Informing Healing Living Empowering program aims to reduce HIV infections among African-American teen girls through group sessions that seek to heighten gender and cultural pride while concurrently raising awareness about effective HIV prevention. SIHLE participants will also receive free counseling, testing and referral services.
PHMC is also launching a bi-monthly stand-alone counseling and testing event called Young Sisters in Charge, which also targets young African-American women.
“We’re going to be working with a very vulnerable population here, adolescent young females who are sexually active,” Pierre said. “The CDC has stated that this group is at an increased risk for HIV infection and there’s really no other agency in the city of Philadelphia that is specifically targeting African-American females. This is going to be dead-on with PHMC’s mission because we try to improve the health of the community by research and by outreach and we’re going to be right there in the trenches with these young ladies.”
Both PHMC programs are expected to begin in February.
AIDS Care Group is also planning to launch a series of new programs with its $363,000 Category B annual award.
Executive director Dr. Howell Strauss said the agency will use the money to offer HIV-prevention resources and testing at the Bucks County Jail, the Probation and Parole Office of Delaware County, the emergency room at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital and at its Sharon Hill Medical Center location.
Action AIDS was one of several local groups that applied for the funding and wasn’t chosen, but Kevin Burns, Action AIDS executive director took it in stride.
“We were hoping to expand our prevention and education programs because right now we have one team that does that and we were hoping that, if we’d gotten the funding, we would have been able to bring on a whole second team,” he said. “So it was disappointing, but at least it was new money. It’s better for it to be new money and not something continuing that we’d lost.”
Many CDC grants are dispersed to community organizations through local health agencies, like Philadelphia’s AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, but this funding is given directly to the groups from CDC, which Powers noted can safeguard against situations like last year’s state-budget crisis, which halted the delivery of some federal, state and city funds.
“This is essential not only for Mazzoni Center but for Philadelphia as a whole, in terms of keeping these resources here in Philadelphia for prevention efforts,” he said. “The city gets funding from the CDC or from the state but, as we know, the state can cut funds occasionally, so it’s good to have a separate revenue where agencies can be funded directly.”
Jen Colletta can be reached at jen@epgn.com.
THE CURE for HIV/AIDS.......AMBUSH
THE IDEA that AMBUSH cures AIDS
is being proven by the more than 400 individuals who have taken a dose of 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. The result is that AMBUSH 'KILLS' the virus by causing the protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white blood cells. AMBUSH is able to 'KILL' the virus that are 'hiding' in the lymph system by its 'natural radioactive' properties. This process allows the body to 'return to normal health' with a corresponding immunity to that or those strains of the virus.
What is AMBUSH ?
AMBUSH is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the 'palm' plant of which there are more than 3000 species. When ingested, AMBUSH causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individuals for consumption 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. AMBUSH is a herbal preparation in this form but it contains an active ingredient which is a 'NEW' crystalline substance, a drug from the 'palm plant' similarly to ASPIRIN originating from the willow tree bark
RESULTS:
After 21 days on AMBUSH, ALL the individuals experienced a decrease in viral load to undetectable, an increase in cd4, increase in RBC, an improvement in general health such as more color to the face, decrease in Buffalo hump, an increase in gluteal muscles, a decrease to having no joint pains whereby individuals can bend to touch their toes, and walk up steps are but a few examples. There is also a dramatic increase in their sexual appetite beginning after the first week of therapy
DISCUSSION:
In any plant concoction such as percolated 'tea', there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure.
As an antiviral and 'natural radioactivity' producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have 'GIVEN' AMBUSH in the same 'strength' and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on 'green tea' and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV's, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in 'good' health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH.
I have sent this 'IDEA' to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ?
I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research.
PROPOSAL:
My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained.
This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years.
The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE.
Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been 'hijacked' and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners.
It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were 'killed' at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV.
I am also willing to work with the scientific community in identifying those individuals who took AMBUSH and wish to be identified with this process notwithstanding that some are stigmatized while others are jubilant,
Once AMBUSH is verified as being able to accomplish that which is aforementioned then the next stage might be the natural and artificial synthesis of the substance.
Finally, if this is accepted or not, believed or not, THE LORD GOD always wins and this is the heavenly truth to which AMBUSH was divinely given to mankind for the CURE of HIV/AIDS and it will be here forever. Apostle Shada Mishe.
apostleshadamishe@gmail.com
Here is a video taped presentation that I gave at t he Martin Luther King library in Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V53D1w__Po
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPwuwlVBOV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZejptOwMTzQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqcTgIAhrhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7HPKcT_iwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iQfgiYAnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3RzRS6tJDM
Ambush
My name is Simon and I am a 29 year old male. I first discovered that I was HIV Positive in June of 2009. Three weeks earlier I had gone to a local health center for testing and I was negative. The following week I applied for life insurance and was denied because my test results came back positive. When I received my results, for some reason I was calm. Instead of searching for treatments, I immediately went online to search for the cure – that’s when I ran across the youtube.com presentation of Apostle Shada Mishe. I immediately e-mailed him and he asked me some very basic information: my name, viral load, and age. When I e-mailed him this information, he invited me to come to his home in Toronto to get some Ambush. Ambush was the cure that the Apostle was presenting on youtube.com. The Apostle said that Ambush kills HIV/AIDS completely in 21 days. I didn’t have a passport at the time, and I live in the U.S., so the Apostle gave me an open invitation and told me to contact him when I was ready to come.
I traveled to see the Apostle on the 4th of July. Before I left, I sent him a final e-mail asking him if I needed to bring anything and he replied, “just you.” I arrived at the Apostle’s home very early in the morning, in fact, he was still asleep. Nevertheless, when he answered the door, he greeted me with a big hug and said, “hello my son.” He explained to me that he needed a little more time to finish making the Ambush, so I sat. He then bought in a pan of water and a towel and asked me to take off my socks, and then he washed my feet. He then anointed me from head to feet in oil, as he prayed with me. We sat for hours and talked about almost everything: the state of the world, religion, sex, family, goals, etc. He informed me that from that point on he was my father and there was nothing that I should feel I couldn’t tell him.
Once the Ambush was ready, the Apostle bought some to me in a small glass. He took a sip first then told me to drink it. Surprisingly, it had a pleasant taste – like tea with ginger. He told me to drink it three times daily for the next three weeks. He packaged it in a bottle and gave it to me. Before I left his home, he told me to put my hands on this huge slab of marble. He put his hands on it too and then he prayed for me. I immediately felt a spirit of peace.
For the next three weeks I took the recommended dosage of Ambush. The Apostle also told me to take a daily vitamin supplement with it. In the first week I felt no change. In the second week I felt very sluggish, nauseated and I noticed that my hair was thinning rapidly. I felt like I was going through chemotherapy. This was a direct contrast to how the Apostle told me I would feel. He said that I would have more energy, my skin would look better and I would feel healthier than I had in a long time. I never stopped taking the Ambush, but I communicated my concerns to the Apostle through e-mail. Each time I e-mailed him, he immediately responded, answering all of my questions and coddling my fears.
I went and got blood work after I completed taking the Ambush. It took a few months for me to go back because I was scared. I knew what I had prayed for and what the Apostle had told me, but if this didn’t work, I would have to face the fact that I would die from AIDS. In early October, I got my test results back. My doctor informed me that he was expecting my viral load to be in the double digit thousands because I had recently contracted the disease, but it came back at 69! This was outstanding. I called the Apostle and we talked over the phone and rejoiced. He told me to come back to see him before I got tested again. I did. He gave me another three week supply of Ambush. On December 21, 2009 I was diagnosed as undetectable. That was the best Christmas present that I could have received.
I am telling my story because there are millions of people infected with HIV/ AIDS. There is a cure! I paid nothing for Ambush and no one has paid me to write this story. This information is pure fact. My hope is that someone with the power to manufacture this cure will read this story, so that thousands of people will stop suffering and dying needlessly of this disease each year. There is hope and I have found it in Ambush and Apostle Shada Mishe.
Article Submitted on January 1, 2010 by Simon T.