An interesting post from gay persons of color.
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On 25 March 2008, the Brazilian Ministry of Health launched an unprecedented action plan aimed at containing the incidence of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases among gay men, men who have sex with men (MSM), and transvestites. The plan, which prioritizes issues, such as the reduction of [...]
Brazil’s unprecedented action plan to combat HIV/AIDS
Florida Group Launches HIV Awareness Campaign for Minority MSMs
Chris Lacharite never thought that in 2008 he would be asking an assembly of gay men to get the word out about the AIDS epidemic.
The HIV prevention manager for Compass thought that message was delivered a long time ago.
“I don’t know when it stopped, but it stopped,” he said last week.
The occasion was a “town [...]
Report Shows 48% Hike In US HIV Cases
Reported new HIV infections in the United States increased by 48 percent in 2006 according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The stunning figures, in the CDC Surveillance Report, comes in advance of a long anticipated in depth review of HIV infections that was to have been released early this year [...]
Who Has AIDS in L.A. County?
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Black MSM Have Higher HIV Rates Despite Similar Risks’
According to a new study released at the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, “ Black men who have sex with men (MSM) are seven times more likely than their white counterparts to be infected with HIV.”
The studies found that black MSM were no more likely than white MSM to have [...]