It is our responsibility to deal with the AIDS issue in a straightforward manner. This is where public health educator Bambi W. Gaddist stepped in. Bambi Ware was born in Rome, New York, in She moved to South Carolina after accepting a post-graduate job at the age of 23 teaching physical education at South Carolina State University.
She quit after six years to pursue a doctorate and was subsequently admitted to the public health doctoral program at the University of South Carolina in I met this woman who was working in HIV out of her beauty shop. Gaddist, interview, June 13, Unfortunately, many school districts and parents balked at the content itself:. And so my methods were research-based, that brought a lot of controversy, legislators came for me, I was constantly being pulled into things.
The ultimate culmination was around me providing instruction in condom use, discussion of condoms, how teachers should provide instruction. I was called in before a subcommittee of the legislature for corrupting the children of South Carolina. Gaddist, interview , June 13, Teaching children anything else is irresponsible and counterproductive.
And I would get up every day and get dressed like I was going to work and go there in the back. And I would start pursuing my identity again, who I was. And so I did some consulting work, I worked on the Council stuff, I looked for money. And simultaneously going to unemployment every day proving to them that I was looking for employment. A controversial black woman talking about something that nobody wants to talk about.
Its mission remains prevention and education through anonymous testing and counseling services. I think I was placed in this mission work for a reason. State Columbia , October 13, Fair, Michael L. Gaddist, Bambi. October 13, Lore, Diane. Spiro, Ellen, and Dunye, Cherl. Bambi W. Unfortunately, many school districts and parents balked at the content itself: …And so my colleague worked in alcohol and drugs and did those kinds of things, I worked in human sexuality, so I developed all of the sexual health content and trained teachers in that.
