Migrants are risking their lives crossing multiple international borders to reach the United States “Between January and August of this year (2022), 67% of the migrants that have crossed the border with Panama, are Venezuelan nationals,” said Carlos Camargo, Colombian Ombudsman. In the last eight months of the year, 68,575 Venezuelan migrants have crossed the…
Migration crisis in NYC: From the Darien Jungle to the Concrete Jungle On August 13, 2022, a long line of Venezuelan families was outside the Santa Teresa Church on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. There were children playing around, mothers carrying their babies and adults talking to each other, recounting their experiences in Darien, Panama. The…
AFA attended to the 24th International AIDS Conference! Earlier this month, an AID FOR AIDS delegation traveled to Montreal, Canada to participate in the 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022) which took place from July 29 to August 2. This was the first conference to be held in person after the COVID-19 pandemic, but it…
How to react when someone tells me they have HIV? Stigma and discrimination have made conversations around HIV fearful and taboo, but it shouldn’t be! Educating ourselves to talk about HIV is one of the strongest tools we have as a society to respond to this health situation. At AID FOR AIDS, we want to…
AID FOR AIDS reaches over 1,600 people with HIV services in NYC! In 2020, the Hispanic/Latino community was the second largest population with new HIV diagnoses in NYC. Since January 2021, through our Outreach and HIV Testing programs, we have reached over 1,600 people, doing HIV testing and workshops about HIV prevention, and distributing condoms,…
AID FOR AIDS present at Pride March! AID FOR AIDS (AFA) joined the Pride March that took place in Bogotá, Lima, Panama City and New York City. In the 1990s, the number of AIDS-related deaths was on the rise, significantly affecting the LGTBQ+ community. That is why, in 1996 from New York City, Jesús Aguais…
Mothers find ways to feed their babies due to formula shortages 90% of the formula in the United States is made by four companies. Abbott Labs is one of the top four producers, manufacturing 43% of US infant formula. Even though formula shortage began in the early days of the pandemic and got worse with…
More than 34% of Venezuelan children under five are malnourished Recently, Dr. Huniades Urbina Medina, Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine in Venezuela, discussed with AID FOR AIDS the results of a 2021 study of malnutrition in children in Venezuela, whose data were collected in 2020. He stated that, since the year 2016, in…
AID FOR AIDS International recognizes the work of Azul Positivo through the Bernard and Daniela Chappard Award for HIV Prevention Azul Positivo, a Venezuelan-based nonprofit that works to educate and raise awareness of HIV prevention, will receive this year’s Daniela and Bernard Chappard Award for HIV Prevention for their work in Venezuela. A selection committee, made up…
My Hero Gala Honoree Announced: Michael Weinstein Michael Weinstein, Founder and President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, will be receiving the 2022 My Hero Award in recognition of his leadership of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and their work in providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy to people with HIV around the world. AHF’s efforts have been…