Healthy Difference on 'Today's THV at 5': Actress and AIDS Activist Sheryl Lee Ralph

Original Dreamgirl Sheryl Lee Ralph found success in music and television, starring in the hit tv show, Moesha. She now is lending her voice to the cause of fighting AIDS.

Tuesday night at 7pm, at the Wildwood Park for the Arts (20919 Denny Road, Little Rock), Ralph will perform a one woman show. It's entitled "Sometimes I Cry: The Lives, The Loves, and Losses of Women Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS. "

It's all in observance of World AIDS Day. It's a disease that affects millions globally and disproportionately affects the South. The South has the highest number of new HIV infections and new AIDS cases. More than half of the persons living with HIV (not AIDS) in the U.S. in 2006, were in the South. Four out of ten Americans living with AIDS live in the South.

Blacks account for more HIV and AIDS cases than any other racial/ethnic group in the U.S. or in Arkansas. The rates in the Natural State are not as daunting as other states, but the challenge remains.

For more information on testing, call 1-888-499-6544 or check out Arkansas Minority Health Commission online.

We have the full interview with Sheryl Lee Ralph online. She also helps sponsor a campaign to get couples to Test Together.

Sheryl Lee Ralph also has another concert she is presenting around the country. It's called Divas Simply Singing this year and has clips of her previous concerts online.