An NLAAD 2020 event was organized and scheduled by the Epsilon Psi Chapter Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc from the University of Hawaii at Hilo – The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy for Monday, October 26 at 12pm Hawaii time (6pm NY time), and invited me to present about HIV among Latinos and National...
Webinar presented by Luis A Mares, LMSW, Director of Community Mobilization at the Latino Commission of AIDS, in observance of NLAAD, precisely about National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day and the Latino Commission on AIDS. This webinar was presented for the NY State Senator Leroy Comrei from New York and Blue Cross Blue Shield’s series of...
Interview in Spanish about National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day, at the program La Doctora Isabel of La Red Hispana. We talked about the importance of continuing creating awareness and educating our community about HIV.
Editor’s Note: Reporting for this article was supported by the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Partnering and Communicating Together program. This is part of the Let’s Stop HIV Together campaign. Jorge de Jesus’ life took an unexpected turn in 2017, when...
October 15 is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD). This year’s theme, “Ending HIV is at your fingertips,” focuses on the tools already available to address the HIV epidemic, like HIV testing, PrEP, condom use, HIV treatment, and U=U, as we are dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, HIV has disproportionately impacted Hispanic/Latinx Americans, and a broad...
Episode 25 of DIFFA Dallas IMPACT Podcast, featuring host Shane Allen with special guest Luis Mares, LMSW, Director of Community Mobilization at the Latino Commission on AIDS that aired on the eve of NLAAD. Shane and Luis talk about stigma, and how that might be one factor in the disproportionately high HIV infection rate in...
Luis A Mares, LMSW , Director of Community Mobilization at the Latino Commission on AIDS was invited by the Loisaida Center TV from Acacia network, for one episode in their programing, to talk about NLAAD and the work the Commission does about not just on awareness about HIV in the Latinx Community, but about all...
Participation of Luis Mares LMSW, Director of Community Mobilization at the Latino Commission on AIDS at a Facebook Live event with La Clinica del Pueblo – Centro Empoderate (from Washington DC) about NLAAD, where we talked about our campaign and the importance of delivering the message to our community
The AIDS Lady, a one-person performance by Anna De Luna, will explore various characters while engaging audience members with stories of courageous youth and the HIV positive population she serves. The original piece uses theatre as a tool to raise awareness of the issue of HIV/AIDS – as Ms. De Luna will perform a rapid...
Latinos represent 26% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States, but make only 18.3% of the overall population (CDC, 2020). Most new HIV cases among Latinos are among men who have sex with men, MSM; these increases are concentrated in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas, and Puerto Rico (CDC, 2018). Nearly three-quarters of RWHAP clients are from racial/ethnic minority populations. According to the 2018 HRSA client...
