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...
Category: HIV opinion
Diary of a Pandemic: Living with HIV/AIDS and dodging COVID-19
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...
NLAAD interview with DIFFA Dallas
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...
Ryan White and Latinx AIDS Awareness Day
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...
The Sister’s Perspective on AIDs and the Crisis in Healthcare Access and Intersectionality
This episode focuses on the crisis of health access and awareness among the Latin population in the United States. Our guest Gabriella Betancourt has been Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation for the Latino Commission on AIDS since 2015. She is currently a Doctoral candidate in the area Public Health with more than 10 years...
Vu Q&A: Guillermo Chacon on HIV/AIDS in the Latinx Community
Guillermo Chacón is the President of the Latino Commission on AIDS (the Commission). He also founded the Hispanic Health Network and played a key role in the creation of National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) Q: You have been with the Latino Commission on AIDS for more than 24 years. What motivated you to get...
The U.S. Congress Recently Recognized “U=U.” Here’s How It Happened.
In a major step forward for HIV vaccine research, the U.S. research agency will partner with a pharmaceutical company on a large-scale, advanced-stage clinical study on an HIV vaccine. If the trial is successful, the vaccine may become the first ever to be approved for HIV prevention. But the rise of PrEP has created unexpected...
Vu Q&A: Judith Montenegro on the Need for Culturally Competent HIV Care
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,...
Vu Q&A: Luis Mares on the Impact of HIV on Hispanics/Latinx
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...
The Latino AIDS crisis you don’t see: We need to do more; lives are at risk
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...
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