By Wendy Griffin LatinaLista When there is a health emergency like the occasional cholera or dengue epidemics in Honduras, non-profit organizations, and the Honduran government try to reach the local people through innovative programs. When the health emergency affects…
LatinaLista — Today is National Latino Aids Awareness Day (NLAAD). While Latinos account for 14 percent of the U.S. population, we unfortunately represent 22 percent of new HIV/AIDS diagnosis in 2006. Among Latinas, the statistics are increasingly worse. What…
LatinaLista — This week, Mexico City was the site of the XVII International Aids Conference. Among the 22,000 in attendance was Dayana Mendoza, the newly crowned Miss Universe 2008. Ms. Mendoza received her crown last month in Vietnam where…
LatinaLista — This past weekend at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the much anticipated report, Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States. One group that was anxiously awaiting the…
LatinaLista — AIDS is a Latino problem more than ever. That’s the analysis of a new report, The Crisis of HIV/AIDS Among Latinos/Hispanics in United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, released today by the Latino Commission on…
