HIV/AIDS in the U.S. Latino Community: Personal Accounts
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| Beatriz Diaz has been living with HIV since 1992. She feels fortunate to share her house with her son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. |
- HIV Helped Me Rediscover Life: A Gay Man of Color Tells His Story (Winter 2005/2006)
Victor R. Pond explains what it felt like to live through the first 15 years of the U.S. HIV epidemic -- and how it shaped the self-perception of HIV-negative gay men of color.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Beatriz Diaz: From Silence to Success (January 2005)
Beatriz Diaz, 49, learned the hard way that loving yourself is critical to committing to HIV treatment.
In A Guide to Fuzeon: The First Fusion Inhibitor, from The Body
- Latinos Living With HIV/AIDS in NYC (February 2004)
Profiles of four HIV-positive Latino/as and seven AIDS organizations in New York City.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- In Hiding -- an Ecuadorian Woman (March/April 2003)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- My Journey From Addiction and Incarceration to Recovery and Hope (2003)
Marina Alvarez, a Latina AIDS educator and community organizer, was the opening speaker at the World AIDS Conference in Amsterdam.
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From PositiveWords
- Our Mexican Flower, Our Beloved; Doña Santa (Summer 2002)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
- Rural Profile: Maria (Summer 2001)
The story of a 24-year-old Hispanic IV drug-using mother.
In STEP Perspective, from Seattle Treatment Education Project
- One-on-One With Sylvia Vázquez-O'Shaughnessy (May/June 2001)
Sylvia discusses her diagnosis in 1983, years of misunderstanding the disease and her path to empowerment.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Powers of Example: Theresa Nieves (September 1997)
"I was one of the few Latinas out there doing advocacy work, and who was not afraid to say 'I have AIDS'".
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
