[applause] i am actually delighted now to introduce a tremendous community leader, dazon dixon diallo, the founder and president of sisterlove inc.. this is a very prominent women's hiv/aids support organization based in the southeast. she is a wall and with tremendous passion and compassion and i want to thank dazon dixon diallo for joining us here. [applause] >> thank you so much dr. koh and thank you all for being here, and for being here. alternative needs con, debbie thomas, janice giroux, martin delaney, novella dudley, willie brown, pandora singleton, arthur ashe, so many hundreds of thousands of others are also glad for you being and being here. in the summer of 1981, i was a 16-year-old rising senior at each county high school. in fort valley georgia. one of those places where it took a bit longer to get the word about the strange new deadly illness that we soon came to know as aids. now by 1985 i was a college sophomore in atlanta, but i was also ready and working and advocating for women's reproductive rights. and by the end of that same year, thanks to root hudson's famous