Friday, June 20, 2014

MCHD's Family Health staff promote All-Together Gospel and Jazz Festival on Fox 10

MOBILE, Ala. -- Two Family Health employees were featured on FOX 10's local TV morning show Friday, June 20, 2104, to share information about the All-Together Jazz and Gospel Festival planned for Saturday, June 21 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Cathedral Square in downtown Mobile.

Fred Phelps, a nurse with Family Health, and Ty Tover, a peer mentor, also with Family Health, talked about the HIV/AIDS crisis in America and what's being done to raises awareness in the community. Phelps is the president of the Mobile AIDS Coalition, which is comprised of the Mobile County Health Department's Family Health division, Franklin Primary Health Center Inc., Missing Link Consumer Group, USA Women’s and Children Specialty Clinic and AIDS Alabama South.

During the interview, Tover and Phelps offered information about how many U.S. residents are affected by the disease each year. It is estimated that more than a million Americans have HIV/AIDS, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. As many as 1 in 5 infected Americans don’t know they have the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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