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...
Leaders from different organizations gathered in Lower Manhattan to lead an education event in the framework of the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, which will be held on October 15. According to figures from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six Hispanics lives with the disease and does not yet know it.
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...
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...
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,...
