The “Conectando Caminos por los Derechos” program reaches its final phase in 6 cities in Colombia On May 11, 2023, three technical bulletins were presented about the rights of migrants and refugees who practice survival sex in Colombia. These three bulletins were prepared from three perspectives: 1) cisgender women, 2) homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual men…
AID FOR AIDS and AID FOR LIFE participated in the Conference Futuro Venezuela On Saturday, April 15, Jesús Aguais, president of AID FOR AIDS and AID FOR LIFE, participated in the Conference Futuro Venezuela. It was organized by students from the universities of Columbia, Yale, Pennsylvania, Cornell and The Cooper Union; and took place at…
“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…
“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 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…
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…
