El 15 de octubre es el Día Nacional Latino de Concientización sobre el VIH/SIDA. Es importante reconocer los avances para derrotar la epidemia del VIH y los desafíos que quedan por delante. Reconocemos lo logrado en la lucha contra el SIDA; pero COVID-19 impactó el progreso en las pruebas para la detección del VIH y...
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Special 20-Year Anniversary Event: NLAAD and its Rockstars From Beginning Till Today
National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day is turning 20 years and what better moment to reunite all the Directors who have shaped the campaign. They started it, they made it grow, they kept it alive and they transformed it into the national campaign we have today. This conversation provides an opportunity to hear directly from these...
NLAAD Announces 2023 Webinar Series with Special Focus on Latinos Accessing PrEP
The NLAAD webinar series will kick off TODAY at 3PM ET with a discussion about what is needed to make PrEP into the hands of everyone who needs it. Review the webinar listing below and register now to take part in these important conversations. Webinars are open to everyone. The sessions will include time for...
Registration is Open for NLAAD 2023 Events; including ordering HIV tests and posters
Are you hosting a Testing event? co-organizing a health fair? doing outreach, HIV education? or creating HIV awareness in any way, shape, or form? Then, it’s time to register your 2023 NLAAD event. We would love to celebrate our 20-year anniversary with as many events as possible. To those partners who have joined us in...
Launching of National Latino AIDS Awareness Day 2023: “Do it your Way. Do it Right.”
New York, August 30, 2023— October 15 is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD). NLAAD promotes HIV Testing, prevention, and treatment within diverse communities to address the health challenges the Hispanic/Latinx community confronts. The 2023 NLAAD’s campaign brings together communities, service providers, and organizations providing services to Hispanics/Latinxs throughout the U.S. and territories under one...
NLAAD celebrates 20 years promoting HIV/AIDS education in the Latino community
First observed in 2003, the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day is celebrating its 20-year anniversary. NLAAD’s first campaign theme was “Open your eyes,” aiming to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Hispanic/Latinx community. For 20 years, the team behind NLAAD has worked tirelessly to create awareness year after year in the Latino communities,...
AIDSVu Releases New Data Highlighting Inequities in PrEP Use among Black and Hispanic People
AIDSVu has released PrEP use data and maps by race/ethnicity at the state-level for 2022, showing that while PrEP use has continued to increase on average by 56% each year since its approval in 2012, significant inequities remain in PrEP use among Black and Hispanic people and in the Southern region of the country. These...
Geographic mobility impacts vulnerability to HIV among gay and bisexual Latino migrants to the US
Gay and bisexual Latino migrants in the United States, especially but not only those who are undocumented, are vulnerable to higher rates of sexual risk behaviours and HIV transmission, a recent study published in Social Science and Medicine found. The study identified homophobia and HIV related stigma in their residential communities, barriers to well-paid work,...
NLAAD: HIV in Hispanics/Latinos During the year 2020
Credits: this summary of the impact of HIV among Hispanics/Latinos by gender, sexual orientation and age group has been prepared by Luis A. Mares, LMSW GENERAL Hispanic/Latino Americans in the United States have to deal with a variety of social determinants of health that put them in a precarious position when it comes to...
Registration of NLAAD events is open, and HIV testing kits request form available for NLAAD 2022 campaign.
Creating awareness in the Hispanic/Latino Community through events nationwide has been the main goal of NLAAD through the years. Now that restrictions due to COVID-19 are not as strict as previous years we hope we can organize live events again. We won’t dismay in our efforts to end the HIV epidemic, and to deliver information and...