More than 25 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and with more than one million people infected with HIV/AIDS in the United States, a clear trend has emerged: the risk of infection is much greater for Latinos and African Americans than other ethnicities.
Although Latinos represent about 15 percent of the U.S. population, the [...]
Who Has AIDS in L.A. County?
Day Laborers Offered Money for Sex
A New American Media article sheds light on a rising, but not necessarily newfound, concern among the rising HIV/AIDS rate among day laborers.
Bienestar, an organization devoted to educating, preventing and treating HIV and AIDS in the Latino community, has launched a program geared specifically toward day laborers.
“As the day ended, people would come, other men [...]
Bottom Line for Project (Red)
A year ago, staff members at the Treatment and Research AIDS Center could barely cope. Patients, unable to find care elsewhere, flowed in from every corner of the country. And if one of them was fortunate enough to find a bed here, she often had to share it.
Today, a dozen patients, mostly women, sit in [...]
Longer Drug Regimen Found to Help Babies Avoid HIV
Over recent years, giving an antiretroviral drug to a woman infected with the AIDS virus in labor and to her baby at birth has reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to the baby.
Yet many babies born uninfected go on to acquire H.I.V., the AIDS virus, in the lengthy period of breast feeding because of [...]