Registration for 2004 HIV Symposium continues

YOUNGSTOWN -- Registration for Mahoning Valley residents interested in attending the 2004 HIV Symposium in Columbus continues until Thursday.
The symposium, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the King Arts Complex, 867 Mount Vernon Ave., is sponsored by the Ohio Commission on Minority Health with assistance from Pennsylvania/Mid Atlantic AIDS Education and Training Center and Ohio State University AIDS Clinical Trial Unit.
The symposium topic is "Taking an Assertive Approach to Eliminating HIV in the African-American Community."
Scheduled speakers are Brenda Browder, writer, educator, lay speaker and a student of theology at United Theological Seminary, Dayton; Phill Wilson, founder and executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles; J.L. King, HIV and sexually transmitted disease activist and educator; and Dr. Gayle Wyatt, clinical psychologist, sex therapist and professor in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA. She also is associate director of the UCLA AIDS Institute.
The $10 registration fee can be made payable to The Ohio State University and sent to Michael McDonald, OSU AIDS Education and Training Center, University Hospital Clinic, 456 W. 10th Ave., Room 4801, Columbus 43210.
For more information on the symposium, call (614) 466-4000 or visit the minority health commission's Web site at www.mih.ohio.gov.