County, state and national health officials in Maryland discussed methods to increase AIDS and HIV prevention and education among minority and ethnic groups who may be misinformed about the virus.
"A big problem in minority communities is the issue of shame, being excluded, denial," said the Rev. Ken Jackson, president of the Black Minister's Conference of Montgomery County at the forum held on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus of Montgomery College in observance of World AIDS Day.
Among the county's immigrant population, AIDS awareness is stifled by a fear that being tested or treated for HIV through government agencies could lead to deportation, said Barbara Golding of the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring.
Read more at Silver Spring Neighborhoods Blog.
Tags: AIDS, HIV
Topics: Community Health, Ending Homophobia, Health Care, Health Care Access, Immigrants, Mental health, Public Health, Youth
Topics: Community Health, Ending Homophobia, Health Care, Health Care Access, Immigrants, Mental health, Public Health, Youth
The stigma surrounding HIV is so strong in the South Asian community, where the disease is viewed by many as a moral disease, that many people who are infected hide their condition from their friends and families for as long as they can. Read More at the New America Media Web site
New Routes to Community Health gives voice to new leaders in immigrant communities across America.
On Friday, August 15th family, friends and many other members of the community gathered for a free event at the National Museum of Mexican Art to cheer about forty of the most amazing and enthusiastic youth performers. Read More
New Routes to Community Health gives voice to new leaders in immigrant communities across America.
On Friday, August 15th family, friends and many other members of the community gather for a free event at the National Museum of Mexican Art to cheer about forty of the most amazing and enthusiastic youth performers. Read More
New Routes to Community Health gives voice to new leaders in immigrant communities across America.
Meet Steven Beaudion, Co-Instructor for Salud: Healing Through the Arts, a collaboration between Latinos Progresando’s Teatro Americano, Radio Arte and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Illinois. Read More
Radio Arte, media partner of Salud: Healing through the Arts, was awarded with the prestigious Studs Terkel Community Media Award this Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
Congratulations Radio Arte! Read More
Congrats to Radio Arte for its 2008 Studs Terkel Media Award honoring excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago's diverse communities.
Judges said: "The Latino-owned, youth-driven, bilingual public radio station is putting news at the center of an ambitious expansion of programming. Read More
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has awarded Homofrecuencia, a program for latino youth, a special recognition award. GLAAD works hard to eliminate forms of discrimination that are based on sexual orientation and gender identity and to eliminate homophobia, all by promoting and ensuring accurate, fair and inclusive representation of people and events through the media.
Homofrequencia is a program of RadioArte, which is a partner in the New Routes project, Salud! Read More
Partners:
Latinos Progresando
National Museum of Mexican Art
Radioarte WRTE
Project Summary: Salud: Healing through the Arts, is producing programming that engages a predominantly Latino immigrant youth population. Partners are creating a series of theater productions and radio programming that is helping the community make better health decisions. Read More
View project mediaDiversityRx manages an email list with excellent resources for those interested in interpreting and health care. This morning’s entry, about diversity, fear, and justice in our schools really caught my attention. Read More
partners.newroutes.org (grantee resources)
A national program of the