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World AIDS Day : Latinos and AIDS
1 Dec 2008In the United States, recently released statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Latinos are disproportionately affected by the HIV virus. Latinos rank second among ethnic groups most at risk, and although we are 15 percent of the population, we accounted for 19 percent of new AIDS cases diagnosed in 2006.
There are an estimated 200,000 Latinos in the United States living with AIDS and millions more who are indirectly affected by the disease. According to the CDC, AIDS is claiming the lives of Latinos at four times the rate of the general U.S. population.
Have you been tested? Why or why not?
Via / The Latino Journal
World AIDS Day : Children with HIV / AIDS in the Dominican Republic
10:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Dominican Republic| Health| children · Comments Off
1 Dec 2008In the Dominican Republic there are 1033 children registered as having HIV. The grandmother of one of these children, 2 year old “Mariano”, says that one of the hardest things to deal with is the discrimination her grandson faces.
Su abuela doña María, con los ojos húmedos, cuenta que para ella lo más difícil es la discriminación y el rechazo “me duele porque en el barrio los vecinos saben que mi hijo murió de sida y no les gusta que mi nieto juegue con sus hijos, por eso no lo quiero mandar ni a la escuela”.[My translation] With tears in her eyes, the boy’s grandmother, Doña Maria, tells that the hardest thing is the discrimination and the rejection. “It hurts me because in my neighborhood, the neighbors know my son died of AIDS and they don’t like for my grandson to play with their children, and that’s why I don’t even want to send him to school
Latino Commission on AIDS to Release Report Today
9:56 am By Maegan La Mala · Alabama| Georgia| Health| Mississippi| North Carolina| South Carolina · Comments Off
1 Dec 2008
Commemorating the 20th annual World AIDS Day, today at noon EST, the Latino Commission on AIDS will release a new report focusing on the state of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for Latinos in the Deep South: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. The report, Shaping the New Response: HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the Deep South, follows 2 years of fact finding.
Date: Monday, December 1st
National Call-In Press Conference: 12:00 PM EST ( English and Spanish). Dial-in number (888) 387-8686 password 4615450
In-Person Press Conference: 1:00 p.m. EST (English and Spanish) Latino Commission on AIDS at 24 West 25th Street 10th Floor, New York City (Bet 6th Avenue & Broadway)
For more information and to arrange interviews, call
Guillermo Chacón (212) 920-1611 or gchacon@latinoaids.org (Spanish)
Tim Frasca (917) 689-9475 or tfrasca@latinoaids.org (English)
For more information visit The Latino Commission on AIDS.
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
World AIDS Day and Latinos in the US
1 Dec 2006
Today marks World AIDS Day and despite all the commercials, campaigns, and condoms, AIDS remains a dirty big secret in the Latino community. Acoording to the Latino Commission on AIDS, while we rep about 14% of the population in the U.S., we represent 20% of AIDS cases inside the US. Some more scary stats about AIDS in our community:
• Latinas, often the victims of sexism and machismo, now account for 25% of all Latino infections, as compared to only 2% in 1981.
• Latina intravenous drugs users are five times more likely to have AIDS than their White counterparts. Latino men who are intravenous drug users are 10 times more likely than White drug users to have AIDS.
• Latino men who have sex with men are three times more likely to test positive for HIV than White men who have sex with men.
• Heterosexual Latino men are 10 times more likely to test positive than their White counterparts. Latina heterosexuals are 7 times more likely than their White counterparts to be infected with HIV.
• Latino teens in the United States make up 19% of the national teenage population ages 13-19, but account for 20% of the cumulative AIDS cases.
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