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Terry Angel Mason calls on experience with AIDS, Cancer...

Having suffered, he reaches out to others who suffer

The HIV rate continues to climb at terrifying rates for African Americans, and suicides continue to soar for teens and young adults around the world. According to the Centers of Disease Control, in 2007, African Americans accounted for 46 percent of people living with HIV infection, and approximately 233,624 Blacks died from AIDS.

AIDS is the third leading cause of death for both Black men and women ages 35-44.

THOUSANDS WEAR TEAL ACROSS THE USA TO RAISE AWARENESS OF OVARIAN CANCER

With the American Fertility Association focusing on the often overlooked side of male infertility (www.theafa.org), today's news from www.Zikkir.com is providing great hope for those who are too young to produce sperm.

"For parents of children with cancer, the hopeful news is that pediatric survival rates have steadily improved for decades. Among the bad news — treatments that enable survival often cause infertility.

As an advocate for being proactive with one's fertility (ie. AFA's Manicure and Martinis - www.theafa.org), and in fact, having a daughter who is currently completing her egg freezing cycle, it is good to hear stories such as this published by Reuters on this woman's cryopreserved egg resulting in a live birth.

"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A way of preserving the chances of having a child for women and girls facing cancer treatment that will leave them infertile has been demonstrated to work, for the first time.