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…
AID FOR LIFE has served 2,000 asylum seekers in NYC Since April 2022, nearly 20,000 asylum seekers from South America have arrived in New York City bussed from Texas, as they entered the US through the southern border. According to city reports, 12,700 of the migrants are in shelters. The vast majority of them are…
AID FOR AIDS Colombia and Peru, Columbia University and the CDC work together to help the migrant population at risk of HIV AID FOR AIDS Colombia and Peru have been working with ICAP at Columbia University and the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2021 to provide care and services to Venezuelan…
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…
