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Welcome to the Community Voices section of the Be The Generation Web site. Here you will find personal stories from people who work in the area of HIV Vaccine research. Most of these stories are presented in videos. For the videos, you will need the latest version of Flash Player to view the videos below. Download free player.
Fighting On All Fronts (Profile)
 | "The road to a safe, effective HIV vaccine is a long one, but we must keep fighting on all fronts – by investing in innovative research, being open to new ideas, continuing to adapt our strategy based on new findings, and educating the public,” - Dr. Margaret Johnston |
Voices from the Black Community (Video)
 | "It is up to us to take care of ourselves and to model how to do that for another generation." - Lisa, Atlanta, GA |
Dispelling Myths (Video)
 | "The main challenge is getting people to understand that one cannot contract HIV from the vaccine. - Sterling, Washington, DC |
Meet the Community (Video)
 | "I'm Reverend Doris, I'm from Chicago, and I work for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago" - Reverend Doris, Chicago |
Supporting HIV Vaccine Research (Video)
 | "We can all do something. We can all support HIV vaccine research." - Alfredo, Boston |
HIV Vaccine Research and Gay Men (Video)
 | "To participate in an HIV vaccine trial is just a reminder to some gay men that HIV is still out there and we have to think about it; we have to incorporate it into our daily lives." - Brian, Philadelphia |
Challenges (Video)
 | "With some of the young people I work with, the basic misunderstanding about how vaccines work is that vaccines provide a cure, or that vaccines only work for certain groups; these are some of the biggest obstacles that we come up against." - Ben, Nashville |
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (video)
| "This is a day you can feel powerful." - Lenier, New York City |
What Motivates Me
| "What keeps me motivated is hope and really believing that someday this epidemic will end." - Tom, San Francisco |