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    October 3, 2008
 
 


BP MARKOWITZ OFFICE JOINS NYC HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO URGE BROOKLYNITES TO "KNOW YOUR STATUS" AS PART OF FIRST ANNUAL BROOKLYN HIV TESTING AND AWARENESS DAY


Photo by Nancy Becker

In photo: From left to right: Victor Hunter, director of the Office of Minority Health, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Pastor Brian Carter, president of the Borough of Brooklyn Ecumenical Advisory Group; Yvonne Graham; Rev. Dillon St. E. Burgin, pastor of the Bethel United Methodist Church; Pastor Robert Waterman, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church; and Dr. Monica Sweeney, Assistant Commissioner, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

On Thursday, October 2, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s Office, represented by Special Assistant to the Borough President Yvonne Graham joined the NYC Health Department in hosting a press conference at Borough Hall to announce the First Annual Brooklyn HIV Testing and Awareness Day to be held Saturday, October 4.

The testing event, co-sponsored by the Borough President’s Office and the NYC Health Department, will be held on October 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Antioch Baptist Church on Lexington Avenue between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues.

 

 
 
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