Posts Tagged ‘National Latino AIDS Awareness Day’
Latino Heritage Month Reminders
5 Oct 2011Lots  going on regarding Latino Heritage Month, and Meagan, as usual, did a fab job of reminding readers of the complexity of this month’s celebrations. I wanted to highlight a few things for VL readers:
30 Days of Latino Heritage Tumblr page which Maegan created in 2009 is still up and running! You may submit something that represents Latino heritage to you and see what others have posted and shared.
LatiNegr@s Tumblr page is also still up and running! This was something I co-created after being inspired by Maegan’s 30 Days of Latino Heritage Tumblr and highlights/centers the experiences, realities, narratives, testimonies, and representations of LatiNegr@s/Afr@Latin@s/BlakTin@s/etc. You may also submit something to this Tumblr page as well. There is also a Twitter account that you may follow @BeingAfroLatino.
October 15 is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day and we encourage you to get tested for HIV to know your status! There are many was to find FREE and quick testing sites all over the US. Place your zip code at this site and it will give you locations in that area.
And a shameless plug, over at RH Reality Check, I’m focusing on Latin@s whose work impacts the reproductive justice movement. I did this last year as well and highlighted 5 folks and I plan to do the same this year as well. Posting is not on a specific schedule so check back for any updates.
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.
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day is Sunday
4:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health · Comments Off
12 Oct 2006
This coming Sunday, October 15, is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day(NLAAD)
Did you know that AIDS was the 6th leading cause
of death for Latinos ages 25-34 in the US? (Kaiser
Policy Fact Sheet 2/06)Did you know that it is the second leading cause
of disease-related death among Latinas ages 24-44?
(National Vital Statistics 3/05)How about the fact that Latinos accounted for
approximately 45% of new AIDS cases in 2002? (HIV
Epidemiological Surveillance, December 2005)Or that the estimated AIDS prevalence among
Latinos increased by 31% between 2000 and 2004,
compared to a 22% increase among whites. (Kaiser
Policy Fact Sheet 2/06)
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