Via a Spanish translator, Daniel speaks carefully, his asylum case in mind. The 45-year-old gay man, who says he was diagnosed with HIV in 2010, recounts how he came to Miami from Caracas, Venezuela, on a tourist visa last year and immediately filed an asylum claim, saying he felt endangered as a gay man in...
Judith Montenegro, Program Director for Latinos in the Deep South, a program of Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA) Q: You have been working on the Latinos in the Deep South program for the Latino Commission on AIDS for almost six years. What motivated you to get involved in this work? I grew up in the South,...
Luis (Beto) Mares, LMSW, National Community Mobilization Director for Latino Commission On AIDS (LCOA) Q: You have been organizing the Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA)’s awareness day activities for a little over a year and working in the HIV field for even longer. What motivated you to get involved in this work? I started working...
New York, NY, October 11, 2018 – National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), is held each year on the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month, on October 15. This year’s NLAAD is being successful in mobilizing communities to highlight the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Hispanic/Latino communities. NLAAD promotes local, regional and national collaborative...
A new Spanish-language PrEP campaign has launched to raise awareness about the HIV prevention pill in Latino communities. Viva PrEP, developed by San Francisco-based Instituto Familiar de la Raza, features street and public transportation ads and a Spanish-language website, http://www.vivaprep.org. “Solutions for the Latino community must be driven by the community itself,” said IFR Executive...
“I’m on the pill,” declares a woman as she looks directly at the camera in the commercial. A transgender woman repeats the line as do two men after her. Finally a third man adds, “But it’s not birth control.” As frequent POZ readers have surely figured out, the actors in this campaign are talking about...
Dr. Oni Blackstock, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of HIV, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; Jésica Mendoza, PrEP User; Yasbert Soberal, PrEP User; Guillermo Chacon, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS and founder of the Hispanic Health Network; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Disease Control at the NYC...
South Florida has long been known as a high-risk area for HIV, with Miami and Fort Lauderdale leading the country in new HIV infection rates. But why has HIV spread so rampantly across South Florida compared to other parts of the country? Here are five factors that may be playing into the region’s HIV crisis,...
The U.S. Latino community faces an HIV/AIDS crisis, but chances are, you didn’t know it. Over the past years, the estimated rate of new HIV infections overall in the U.S. has fallen steadily — together with public concern. Highly effective prevention and treatment for HIV-positive individuals have led the way. But while much progress has...
