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Latino Commission on AIDS

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Description

The Latino Commission on AIDS works to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community through a public health model that encompasses five core and complementary services provided to Latino communities: health education, HIV prevention, capacity building, advocacy, and health behavioral research. All services are offered in Spanish by a culturally diverse bilingual staff of health, education and business professionals.

Goal / Mission

The Latino Commission on AIDS focuses its efforts on HIV/AIDS in the Latino community through health advocacy, promoting HIV education, developing model prevention programs for high-risk communities, and building capacity in community organization.

Impact

As the only provider of Spanish language HIV treatment, the Latino Commission on AIDS has created a model of public health that uses training, outreach, prevention and culturally sensitive care for Latinos living with HIV/AIDS.

Results / Accomplishments

For over a decade the Commission has provided the only Spanish language HIV treatment education available in the U.S. and continues to provide this training to frontline healthcare professionals, peer educators and public health officials. The Commission has reached the wider Latino community with HIV testing, counseling and referrals to healthcare and housing through pioneering programs based on social networking models that reach Latinos at highest risk of HIV. The Commission's hallmark awareness initiative is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, held annually on October 15 in conjunction with more than 350 community organizations in over 250 cities across the country to provide HIV testing, education and prevention initiatives.

About this Promising Practice

Primary Contact
Daniel Leyva
Latino Commission on AIDS
24 West, 25th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212-675-3288 x 346
dleyva@latinoaids.org
Topics
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Date of implementation
1990
Location
New York City, NY
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Target Audience
Racial/Ethnic Minorities