Posts Tagged ‘latina health’
Reproductive Health Care and Latinas
2:11 pm By Maegan La Mala · Health|New York City|Women · 2 Comments
5 Feb 2011This Monday I am attending a media breakfast hosted by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Latina Magazine titled Nuestra Comunidad : Nuestra Salud , Our Comnmunity : Our Health.
The stated purpose of the event is to discuss inequities in reproductive health care affecting Latinas, to share the latest information on STD’s and unintended pregnancy, and teen pregnancy rates in Latinas, to review public opinion polling among Latinas regarding co-pays for prescription birth control, and to unveil the latest technology available to reach Latinos with reproductive health information and services.
As a Latina, I know I will be asking about the access for the uninsured (like myself), youth access and information, multilingual access, access and safety issues for undocumented women,, access and safety issues for lesbian, transgender women, and gender nonconforming people, and more.
But perhaps more important is what you, some of our VivirLatino readers would like to ask or know. I plan on live-tweeting the event (as connectivity allows) via our twitter account. You can submit questions and comments there. You can submit questions and comments via the comment form below, via our Facebook account, or you can send an email to info@vivirlatino.com.
VivirLatino Proudly Participating in first annual Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice
6:59 am By Maegan La Mala · children|Family|GLBT|Health|Immigration|Justice|Latin America|Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice|sex|sexuality|Women · 3 Comments
9 Aug 2010
We are proud and honored to participate in the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health‘s first annual Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice. Everyday this week, we will feature a post relating to Latinas and reproductive justice and invite you to discuss with us and with each other what reproductive justice looks like for nuestra comunidad.
All of our posts and the posts of others will be linked to the Latina Institute’s blog, Nuestra Vida, Nuestra Voice> (Our Life, Our Voice). We invite our readers to visit that site as well to further the conversation.
I’m always feeling up my tetas and not just because I’m mala. Breast cancer runs in my familia and I’ve already lost two tias to the disease and have one who is still fighting it.
A recently released study says that Latinas often delay seeking treatment for cancer del seno, making treatment more difficult. The reasons include lack of health insurance, fear, and just cosas de la vida that sometimes make a doctor’s visit less of a priority than say working.
I would also add a lack of cultural competency on the part of doctors working in Latino communities.
“(Latinas are) not getting more breast cancer than other women, but they’re less likely to survive as long,” said Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, a member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s National Health Advisory Council and chairwoman of the Komen Foundation National Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council. “The reason is they’re diagnosed at a later stage of the cancer.”
Via / The Latin Americanist
Got Sofia?
11:15 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Health|Marketing · 1 Comment
24 May 2006
Sofia Vergara wants to know if you have your leche. She is the latest celeb to lend her face to the Milk Processors Education Program (MilkPEP)known to us as the Got Milk? campaign. Seems like someone wants more Latinos to drink their leche not just as a way to get calcium and stay healthy but actually as a way to lose weight. What better person to promote weight loss through milk than a mujer who doesn’t need to lose a pound and has enough tetas to provide milk to a small nation? Sofia said:
I am thrilled to be a part of this campaign because as a celebrity I think it’s important to try to convey useful information to Hispanics.
I’m sure the hombres will be thrilled too.
Via / So Hood
Image Via / People en Espanol
Hola!
VivirLatino is a daily publication published by Mamita Mala Media, dedicated to featuring all the latest politics, culture, entertainment of interest to the diverse Latin@ diaspora.
About | Advertise with us | Contact | Twitter
blog advertising is good for you
blog advertising is good for you
- Maegan La Mala: Thank you Julio! To be honest I was a little nervous. [...]
- Ana L. Flores: I was very excited when you decided to join us. I really wanted your voice there as it would add dep [...]
- Maegan La Mala: Hola Juliana and thanks for commenting. There is a dearth in activist/critical thinking Latino blogg [...]
- Julio Ricardo Varela: Good for you for asking. I got goose bumps just reading this and yes, yes, yes, to it all. Thank you [...]
- julianabritto: The sense that I get is that you might feel a little frustrated at the dearth in activist bloggers? [...]
- LATISM/Top Bloguera Retreat Reflection II : Yes There a Place for a Latin@ Political Blog
- Top Blogueras at the White House : Beyond Puppetry and Pendejas
- Washington DC Bound
- By Land & By Sea Drawing Attention to Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera
- Welcome to NY Secure Communities
- DOJ Puts Sheriff Arpaio on Notice. Who Will Put the DOJ on Notice?
- VL at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival: Babygirl
- 45th Precinct Residents to File Complaint Against Abusive NYPD Officers
- Monday Musica : Maga Bo – Quilombo do Futuro
- NYC : Confronting Police Violence in the Courts – May 19, 1-3pm – Justice Committee Workshop
