- Black Women and HIV/AIDS
by Ayanna, December 02, 2006
- Emancipation: Its Vigour and Its Hope
by Ayanna, August 14, 2006
- Garvey's Legacy in Context:
Colourism, Black Movements and African Nationalism
by Ayanna, August 17, 2005
- Wanted: Respect for African Culture
by Ayanna, February 19, 2005
- West Indians are ashamed of the past
by Ayanna, January 20, 2005
- Thoughts on Cognitive Dissonance
by Ayanna, September 03, 2004
- Re: Black Male Patriarchy a Threat to Willie Lynch
by Ayanna, August 25, 2004
- Our world was never wrenched from its true course
by Ayanna, May 23, 2004
- Caribbean Women Writers:
Continuities in Postcolonial Poetics
by Ayanna, April 16, 2004
- Caricom should help restore Mr Aristide to power
for his remaining two years in office
by Ayanna, March 02, 2004
- Islam & the Myth of Black African Slave Traders
by Ayanna, February 10, 2004
- Through my History
by Ayanna, February 09, 2004
- Crossroads
by Ayanna, December 30, 2003
- Caribbean Language:
The Cadence of Rebellion and Healing
by Ayanna, December 07, 2003
- The Georgian Puppet Show
by Ayanna, November 24, 2003
- Are Afrocentrists shallow when it comes to Africa?
by Bantu Kelani, October 12, 2003
- I Am Becoming My Mother
by Ayanna, October 30, 2003
- Slave? What Slave?
A Study of the Traditional Systems of African Servitude
by Ayanna, November 02, 2003
- UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in Africa
Keynote Address
by Professor J F Ade Ajayi
- Her-story
by Ayanna, October 30, 2003
- Religion and Africans in the Diaspora
by Ayanna, September 19, 2003
- The Source of All Truth
by Ayanna, September 11, 2003
- New Dimension To 'Supremacy In Black Movements'
by Ayanna, August 25, 2003
- Yoruba Religion : The Cornerstone of Society
by Ayanna, April 10, 2003
- Fences: The Dynamics of Black Literary Heroism
by Ayanna, March 23, 2003
- John Agard and The Poetics of Immigration
by Ayanna, November 27, 2002
- The Hamitic ( Semitic) Hypothesis and Scientific Racism :
Two Sides of the Same Coin
by Ayanna, November 15, 2002

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Black Women and HIV/AIDS
Women are at the highest risk for contraction of the HIV virus. Current statistics for Trinidad and Tobago state that the number of female HIV positive cases in the age group of 15-29, make up 65% of the total cases for the same age group. These statistics lead us to many questions and inevitably should draw greater attention to issues of gender discrimination, racism and poverty.
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