BET Networks’ Award-Winning Rap-It-Up HIV/AIDS Campaign Partners With City of Baton Rouge to Host a Women’s Health Conference On Tuesday, August 21

WASHINGTON.- BET Networks’ renowned national HIV/AIDS public awareness initiative, Rap-It-Up, partners with the Office of the Mayor’s HIV/AIDS Task Force of Baton Rouge for a Rap-It-Up Women’s Health Conference. The goal of the event is to raise HIV/AIDS awareness, as well as discuss and share vital information to the public about HIV prevention.

BET Networks’ Rap-It-Up Campaign strives to educate young adults about the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS in the Black community, and to also encourage and promote a positive and healthy lifestyle. Disturbing statistics presently rank the state of Louisiana twelfth among fifteen states with the most African Americans estimated to be living with AIDS, and ranks the state third among the fifteen states accounting for most new AIDS cases among African Americans according to a June 2007 Kaiser Family Foundation study.read more