Posts Tagged ‘AIDS’
World AIDS Day & Latinos
1 Dec 2010
Today is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to drawing attention to AIDS, it’s prevention, treatment, and how it impacts all of our daily lives and how it impacts globally. For Latino communities inside the U.S., AIDS presents its owns challenges. Here are some stats from the Latino Commission on AIDS:
Latinos in the United States and HIV/AIDS
As the largest minority group in the U.S., Hispanics are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2006, Hispanics comprised 15% of the U.S. population or 44.3 million people, yet represented 18% of the HIV/AIDS cases that same year, among 33 states with a name-based reporting, excluding Puerto Rico. Among Hispanics/Latinos, males had a higher AIDS rate (per 100,000) of 31.3, than females, 9.5.Latina Women and HIV/AIDS
For Hispanic/Latina women living with HIV/AIDS, the most common methods of HIV transmission are: 1) high-risk heterosexual contact and 2) injection drug use (IDU).[4]In 2005, the majority of Latinas living with HIV/AIDS were infected through heterosexual contact-approximately 70% of Latinas.Latino Men who have sex with men (MSM)
For Latino men living with HIV, the most common mode of transmission is sexual contact with another man. At the end of 2005, 57% of all Hispanics living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S reported male-to-male sexual contact as the transmission category, compared to 49% among Blacks and 77% among non-Hispanic Whites.Latinos, Drug Use, and HIV/AIDS
Communities of Color in the U.S. are most heavily affected by AIDS associated with substance use. At the end of 2006 in 33 states with confidential name-based reporting, 14,427 male adult or adolescent Hispanics living with HIV/AIDS became infected through injecting drugs with HIV contaminated needles, representing 23% of Hispanic males living with HIV/AIDS.Latino Youth and HIV/AIDS
Hispanic/Latino adolescents in the U.S. face unique obstacles that help account for their disproportionately high rate of HIV infection. Hispanic/Latino teens aged 13-19 accounted for 19% of AIDS cases among U.S. teens in 2006 although they represented 17% of the U.S. teen population that same year.
Do you know your HIV status? How do you stay healthy?
I know my status and get tested regularly, not just for my sexual partners (or potential partners), not just for my family, but for myself. I discuss sexual health with my kids (yes even the younger one) so they don’t grow up thinking that talking about and acting on behalf of a healthy whole self is taboo.
Y Tu?
Please share resources, information, and knowledge.
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD)
3:15 pm By Maegan La Mala · Health · 2 Comments
15 Oct 2010
Today marks the last official day of Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month. It also is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), a day that seeks to draw attention of the impact of AIDS within the Latino community, information sharing, and prevention. This year’s theme, “Save A Life; It May Be Your Own,” urges Hispanics/Latinos to get tested for HIV.
According to the Center for Disease Control, the issue of why AIDS impacts the Latino community in very specific ways has nothing to do with being Latino but rather has to do with the barriers linked to our identities, including poverty and migration status. In other words, yes institutional racism. I would also add that the specific ways that structural racism works in our communities impacts our access to health services.
According to the CDC :
While Hispanics/Latinos represented approximately 15% of the United States population in 2008, they accounted for 19% of people diagnosed with HIV infection in the 37 states and 5 dependent areas with long-term confidential name-based infection reporting*. From 2005-2008, the number of diagnoses of HIV infection increased in Hispanics/Latinos. The increase in the number of diagnoses may be due to increased HIV testing and other outreach efforts.
* 2008 is the latest year for which surveillance information is available.
F*$% You SIDA
9:56 pm By BiancaLaureano · GLBT|Health|Spain · 3 Comments
21 May 2010I’m loving this award-winning HIV prevention ad created by a LGB non-profit in Spain. There are several components of what I had listed on my wish list for Latin@s during Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. Read more about this video from Blabbeando.
Video is NSFW as it uses profanity.
Do you think something like this could/would work in the US?
Jesus Loves You (and Condoms)
11:56 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Funny|Health|Religion|sex · 1 Comment
10 Apr 2009Remember the Pope’s statements about how condoms are bad? How they are only making the AIDS epidemic worse? Well his C-level supervisor doesn’t agree. Jesus Christ shows the Pope who’s boss in this hilarious video which answers the question “what would Jesus do?”
Happy Good Friday!
Via / Huffington Post
Ojibway Migisi Bineshii reminds us that today is the 3rd annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. American Indians and Alaskan Natives have the 3rd highest diagnosis of HIV/AIDS.
Pope: Condoms Make AIDS Worse
7:12 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bizarro|Controversia|Health|Religion|society|South Africa · 2 Comments
18 Mar 2009How many of you — regardless of religious beliefs — can really call this statement valid?
The Pope has really outdone himself this time. Going a step beyond John Paul the II’s assertion that abstinence is preferable to condoms — which in itself is ridiculous — Benedict has clearly gone off the deep end. Condoms worsen the problem? That’s just crazy talk. AIDS experts in South Africa agree:
Rebecca Hodes, head of policy for the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa’s city of Capetown, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday they were “extremely angered and saddened by this ill-considered response from the pope”.
“We know, based on over the 10-year experience of preventing and treating HIV in South Africa, that condoms are one of the only evidence-based means of preventing HIV available to us in Africa,” she said.
“There is very little evidence to support abstinence-only education campaigns as a means of preventing HIV. Condoms work in preventing HIV.”
Via / Al Jazeera
World AIDS Day
8:28 am By Maegan La Mala · Health|Latin America · Comments Off
1 Dec 2008
Today marks the 20th annual World AIDS Day as founded by the World Health Organization with the goal of raising awareness. This year’s theme is “Lead, Empower & Deliver.”
33 million people are still living with the virus and there are nearly 7,500 new infections each day.
Within the Latino community and in Latin America, HIV and AIDS continues to be an issue that is talked about and dealt with in hushed whispers while the virus screams through our communities. Machismo and internalized stereotypes lead many to believe that they can’t contract HIV, that they don’t need to be tested, that they don’t need to take precautions. Those living with HIV and AIDS in our community struggle to survive in a system that doesn’t value Latino lives as much as other lives anyway.
Today, all the posts will focus on an aspect of HIV and AIDS in the Latino and Latin American community, including statistics, stories, events, and the points of views of other Latino bloggers.
Pero as with all “days”, it’s important to note that these issues need to be discussed everyday without the need of a special day of recognition, especially since for those living with HIV and AIDS, they don’t get to take a day off.
Via / Global Voices
Tagging The Sexual Activities of Indonesia’s HIV/AIDS Population
9:06 am By Maegan La Mala · Health|Indonesia|Politics|sex|Tech · Comments Off
25 Nov 2008
I say it was only a matter of time before a class of those monitored because of their “dangerousness” happen. Not surprisingly this dangerousness has been linked to sex.
Indonesia’s Papua province is set to pass a bylaw that requires some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, a lawmaker said on Saturday.
Under the bylaw, which has caused uproar among human rights activists, patients who had shown “actively sexual behavior” could be implanted with a microchip to monitor their activity, lawmaker John Manangsang said…If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty, he said without elaborating.
Who does this really protect?
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
3:25 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|GLBT|Health|Women · 1 Comment
15 Oct 2008
Today is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, and with it come La Macha’s insistent reminders to get yourself tested. HIV is a disease that can be managed for many years–to the point it is no longer the death sentence it used to be. But it has to be caught while still in the HIV negative stage for management to be as effective as possible.
Unfortunately, Latin@s are not being tested nearly often enough nor soon enough, and that’s resulting in devastating loses to our communities:
Overall, the mode of HIV infection for 61 percent of Hispanic males was male-to-male sexual contact, while 17 percent of infections occurred through heterosexual contact and 17 percent through injection drug use, the CDC said.
Among HIV-infected Hispanic women, 76 were exposed through heterosexual contact and 23 percent through injection drug use, the CDC said.
The report noted that Hispanics face disproportionate rates of HIV infections, with the second-highest infection rate among all U.S. racial and ethnic groups, behind blacks.
“The rate of HIV diagnosis for Hispanic males is about three times higher than the rate among white males. And for Hispanic females, it’s about five times higher than among white females,” Dominguez said.
Please, get yourself tested! If you’re not sure where to go or don’t have access to a doctor, this website will help you find places where you can go to get confidential and even free testing done!
Hip/Hop Artists Raise HIV/AIDS Awareness
1:33 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|GLBT · Comments Off
17 Sep 2008
Folks down in Texas were treated to an apparently awesome concert that was also a worthy cause. Mike Jones, David Banner and Day26 (among others) performed a “Hip Hop for HIV” concert to bring attention to the effect HIV/AIDS are having on the black and Latin@ communities. Concert goers received tickets for the concert by getting tested. And although the outreach targeted black and Latin@ communities, the testing was meant for everyone,
“We want to test across the board,” Mr. Jones said. “We don’t just want to reach out to the African-American and Hispanic communities but to everyone.”
I think it’s great that outreach like this is happening, especially given the homophobia that many times courses through mainstream Hip/Hop. I hope it means that the LGBT community is more accepted now, although the pessimistic me thinks it’s more likely that folks are thinking HIV/AIDS is “not just the gay disease anymore.”
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