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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[ In this episode the Hands United Team is coming to you from the NMAC Summit in the windy city of Chicago! The Team will recap and give you their perspectives and takeaways from this National event. So don't miss out on this quick sex health KiKi! ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this episode we are joined by the Director of Hands United, the Manager of Operations at Hands United, and our Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager where they will discussed evidence based intervention. Don't know what that is, well listen to the professionals talk and kiki and fill your brain with sex knowledge. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Welcome to the Hands United first podcast. In our first episode we interview Gerald Gibson who is a Project Coordinator with My Brothers Keeper, Mississippi.  I this episode we continue the conversation about the importance of holistic health approaches, destigmatize HIV testing, sex health among that BIPOC community especially during COVID, and growing up at a gay black male identifying person without proper access to sex education and healthcare. ]]></itunes:summary>
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