What does the Asian Pacific Islander National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day mean to me? I have never heard of the Banyan Tree Project nor National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which falls next month on May 19. Each year A&PI Awareness day is sponsored by Banyan Tree Project. National Asian Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness [...]
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What does the Asian Pacific Islander National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day mean to me?
Posted: April 6, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, ally, Cascade AIDS Project, CHATpdx, Educational, Ernesto, Facebook, HIV, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Latex, NLAAD, Oregon, Sex, STD, STDs, Stigma, Testing, Youth
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The role of “men” in preventing HPV related cervical cancer!
Posted: January 11, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Boys, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Family, Females, Gardasil, Genital Warts, Girls, HPV, hpv types, hpv vaccines, Human Papillomavirus, human papillomavirus hpv, infertility in women, kids, kits, Latino, Males, Mothers, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Oregon, Sex, sexual health services, Sisters, STD, STI, Stigma, Testing, Vaccine, vaginal cancer, Youth
(Photo Credit Gardasil) This blog was originally posted on CHATpdx.org as a program of CHATpdx For more information check out: Our Facebook Page In the US, it’s estimated that a majority (75%-80%) of men and women will be infected with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). With about 6 million new cases of genital HPV every year [...]
National A&PI HIV/AIDS Awareness Day May 19th 2011
Posted: May 19, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: 2011, A&PI, AIDS, API Pride, Asian, Awareness Day, Banyan Tree Project, Bisexual, Cascade AIDS Project, Gay, HIV, Lesbian, May 19, Pacific Islander, Queer, STD, Stigma, Transgender, Women
Asian Pacific Islander Pride and Cascade AIDS Project will be commemorating National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Thursday May 19th. We invite everyone in our communities to join us! We will be discussing HIV/AIDS related issues during our Monthly Happy Hour (Element Restaurant & Lounge, 1135 SW Morrison Street, Portland, 5-9pm). This [...]
Save A Life, It May Be Your Own: An NLAAD Blog
Posted: November 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Activism, AIDS, Ariel Cerrud, Education, LGBTQ, NLAAD, Oregon, Portland, Prevention, Ryan White, Stigma, Support, Testing
By Ariel Cerrud, youth blogger for Amplifyyourvoice.org On October 15th, the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month, I alongside my many peer activists, educators and friends recognized the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD). Organized by the Latino AIDS Commission in 2003, “NLAAD has been established as a national community mobilization and social marketing campaign [...]
Introducing Tessara
Posted: October 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, Bigots, CHATmosphere, Fan-fiction, Gender Queer, HIV, Introducing, Mayhem, Oregon, Pansexual, Portland, Privilege, Sex, Sexuality, SMYRC, Stigma, Tessara
Name: Tessara/Mayhem Age: 21 Gender Identity: Genderqueer Preferred Pronoun: “they/them/their” Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Location: Portland, Oregon Likes: Reading, writing poetry & fan-fiction, knitting, educating around youth sexuality Dislikes: Street harassment, unearned privilege, bigots, politicians who prevaricate, stigma I have some poetry coming up on the blog- keep an eye out for it! Some of it’s [...]
We have a cure for HIV!
Posted: August 3, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: CHATpdx, CURE, Discrimination, Fear, HIV, HIV cure, Sex, STDs, Stigma, William Osler, Youth
“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction” – William Osler I think William got it right. Now I know he was probably not talking [...]
