As we recognize National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day on October 15, it’s vital to reflect on the impact of HIV/AIDS within the Latinx community and to bring public attention to the needs of those affected. Despite the strides we have made in the fight against this epidemic over the past four decades, we must remain...
While the United States has made considerable progress fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis since its peak in the 1980s, headway has not been equal among racial/ethnic groups. Overall, HIV rates have declined in the U.S. and the number of new infections over the last five years has dropped among Black Americans and white Americans. However, Hispanic...
The NLAAD webinars are open to everyone. The sessions will include time for questions and answers and their recording will be posted in the NLAAD website. All webinars will provide interpretation into Spanish. Review the webinar listing below and register now to take part in these important conversations. Register by clicking on each image. ...
New York, September 24, 2024— 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 NLAAD 2024 campaign brings together communities, service providers, and organizations providing services to Hispanics/Latinxs throughout the U.S. and territories under one...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
