The Silence Is Broken HIV campaign is designed to create awareness, educate, and raise money to help fight the disease and the stereotypes it falsely creates. HIV and AIDS threatens communities of color more than any other group. We have concentrated our efforts on black women as their new infection rates are hovering at 61%. Black community HIV infection rates are looking more and more like third world countries and we as guardians of the next generations are not talking about it.

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The Silence Is Broken campaign was introduced by composer and producer Patrick Gandy as a gift to his daughters. He wanted to put something in the world where they could learn about this disease from him through a medium he was familiar with (music) and the message would be reinforced through cultural discourse.

Through living examples, such as women affected by HIV and AIDS and their testimonials, and using media as a tool for change, we can strengthen our message and our capacity to inform. Using the creative and performing arts as an additional tool, we are taking a bold stance and a bold chance that The Silence Is Broken Concert Series, with its artists, thinkers, and performers, will lead in the start of a multi-year experiment to halt the spread of HIV.

The Silence Is Broken campaign is designed to consistently and constantly broadcast its message until eradication. We have interviewed HIV positive women in Los Angeles, New York, Louisiana, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. After finding out their HIV status these women experienced anger, then acceptance, then they begin to live their lives, some empowered for the first time, to be more and to give more.

Though trial and tribulation is a part of living, our goal is to broadcast a message that HIV does not have to be one of the trials, it is preventable. Our message is one of empowerment . This however, does not replace the reality or seriousness that is HIV. While the horizon is seemingly bleak, broadcasting images of extraordinary people creating their extraordinary lives will be examples young people and all people can emulate.