Interviewee: Dázon Dixon Diallo is a recognized visionary and advocate in the struggle for human rights, sexual and reproductive justice, and the fight against HIV/AIDS, with, and on behalf of, communities of women and girls living with HIV and those at risk for HIV and STIs (sexually transmitted infections).Diallo is Founder and President of SisterLove, Inc, established in 1989, the first women’s HIV/AIDS and reproductive justice organization in the southeastern United States. She is a proud member of In Our Own Voice: The National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, where she advocates for sexual and reproductive justice in public health and prevention policies and programs.For 18 years she has served as adjunct faculty in women’s health at Morehouse School of Medicine’s Masters of Public Health Program in Atlanta, GA. Diallo is a co-chair of the Fulton County HIV Task Force, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Health Network. Diallo is a founding member of the 30 for 30 Campaign for Women in the National HIV AIDS Strategy, and serves on the HIV/DV National Advisory Committee for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. In 2001, Dixon Diallo opened a SisterLove program office in a rural South African municipality near Johannesburg, where the project focus is capacity building and sustainable development for local women-led HIV/AIDS organizations. She has received numerous awards and recognitions over the 30 years she has been working in HIV/AIDS, and women’s health and human rights. Interviewers: Justice Hehir, Saskia Kusnekov, and Anita Omambia. IWL scholars, class of 2015.
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