UTPB's Black Leadership Council Addressing Tough Topics at Annual Conference

ODESSA -- The Black Leadership Council at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin will be hosting the Fourth Annual Black History Month Leadership Conference. The theme of this year's conference is HIV/AIDS Awareness: Saving Our Community One Person at a Time.  The conference will be hosted Friday, February 15, 2013 through Saturday, February 16, 2013. 

The purpose of the conference is to encourage the community to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to decrease the number of teen pregnancies within the community. For this conference, a more active approach will be taken for the cause. With 1 out of 374 people in Texas living with HIV (Texas Health Dept. 2011) this issue needs to be addressed directly to the youth and adults of this community. As we all know, there is currently no cure to HIV/AIDS.


Monday-Friday: February 11, 2013-February 15, 2013

HIV/AIDS Week at UTPB: 9:00am-1pm

Testing will take place all morning long and at the end of the testing day a series of prizes will be given out.

Friday: February 15, 2013

High School Presentation: 9:00 am-4:00 pm

  9:00 am- 12:00pm

Permian High School

1:00pm-4:00pm

Odessa High School

Saturday: February 16, 2013

HIV/AIDS Awareness Conference: 9:00am-4:00pm

9:00am-12:00pm

First Panel

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-4:00

Second Panel

Youth Rally: 7:00pm-10:00pm

The speaker will begin a 15-20 minute speech about HIV/AIDS. Preceding the speech, acts will be scheduled throughout the night to perform. In between each act HIV/AIDS information will be given.