“Ruta al Asilo”: legal clinic for newly arrived asylum seekers in New York City On February 25th, the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, and the Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Manuel Castro, joined us at our third legal clinic in Queens. Their presence encouraged the asylum seekers to pursue…
Young Venezuelan migrants and refugees receive training about entrepreneurship and finance in Cúcuta, Colombia Since January 2023, AID FOR AIDS has been offering workshops and training in Cúcuta, Colombia for economic and social integration of young Venezuelan migrants and refugees who engage in survival sex. For a period of 2 months, 30 young Venezuelan migrants…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams joined us on our weekly jornada to support the new immigrant community On Saturday, February 11, the NYC Mayor Eric Adams joined us at our weekly jornada in the Lower East Side. By being there, he sent a powerful message of collaboration and teamwork. The newly arrived asylum seekers’…
AID FOR AIDS presents results from two-year study on Survival Sex in migrant/refugee populations On Monday, December 5, AID FOR AIDS presented the results of its in-depth study focused on Survival Sex in Migrant and Refugee Populations at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The researchers of the study -Fernando Garlin Politis, a doctoral…
AID FOR AIDS and AID FOR LIFE received the “Organization with the Power of Change Towards Gender Equality” award at the She Is Global Forum 2022 The award is granted by the She Is Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to promote, integrate and implement gender equality, entrepreneurship and social innovation projects, led by women, with a…
“Forced Steps: walking and crossing borders”: a campaign that seeks to show the reality of Latin American migrants AID FOR AIDS and AID FOR LIFE launched a digital campaign to show, sensitize and humanize the journeys and challenges experienced by people who have been forced to migrate from Latin America, aiming to reach the United…
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 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…
AID FOR AIDS partners with ICAP at Columbia University and the CDC to provide HIV care to Venezuelan refugees in Colombia and Peru Venezuela’s political and economic crisis has led to the largest recorded number of displaced people in Latin America, with over six million Venezuelans estimated to have fled their country as of 2022.…
AID FOR AIDS in El Español: Jesús Aguais, the Venezuelan who recycles AIDS medicine from NY: “There should be no one with HIV” His NGO, AID FOR AIDS, has been working since 1996 to provide access to the most vulnerable population, especially in Latin America, to antiretrovirals that allow a person with HIV to lead…