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Marvleyn Brown speaks to over 500 youth at Jamhuri Stadium in Morogoro about HIV/AIDS awareness.
Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive American Visits Tanzania
September 28, 2009
Marvelyn Brown, a dynamic HIV-positive American author, is speaking this week about HIV awareness to thousands of Tanzanians in Morogoro, Iringa, and Dar es Salaam. Within six months of testing positive, Ms. Brown gave her first speech. Today, she has a published autobiography (The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive) and is busy traveling the world telling her story. The U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam has invited Ms. Brown to share her experience with the people of Tanzania.
Marvelyn Brown writes in her book that awareness raising events are important because “they encourage people to get tested and face the truth; they reveal that, should you test positive, there is life beyond that fateful day; and finally, they emphasize that it is still critical that everyone take responsibility for preventing that day from becoming a reality.”
Marvelyn Brown has made a huge global impact on television shows, radio programs and print media— The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show, CNN's Black In America, America’s Next Top Model, CBS’s The Early Show, BET Rap It Up and MTV’s Staying Alive programming, and Essence Magazine. In 2007, she and her directors won the prestigious Emmy award for Outstanding National Public Service Announcement for the program “MTV Think.”
Ms. Brown’s visit to Tanzania is supported by the American people through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. Department of State. The United States will continue to strengthen its relationship with the United Republic of Tanzania to improve the health of this nation and fulfill President Kikwete’s vision of a “Tanzania free of HIV.”