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...
The Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA) will host a webinar entitled “Advancing the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative during COVID-19” on Wednesday, October 14th. Guest speaker Harold Phillips, Chief Operating Officer of the Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America(EHE) initiative, will talk about EHE’s goals and how to achieve them while navigating the...
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of June 30, 2018, 41,609 Hispanics in the city tested positive for the disease. The president of the Latino Commission on AIDS, Guillermo Chacón, said that “we have to intensify our work to raise awareness and support the population living with this...
Dear Colleague: October 15 is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), sponsored by the Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA). This year’s theme “Living with HIV or not…we’re in this together,” aims to eliminate HIV-related stigma and reminds us that we all have a role to play in ending the HIV epidemic. To honor this day,...
