Male Birth Control that can also kill HIV? More often than not, the responsibility of preventing pregnancy falls on female-bodied individuals – birth control pills, the patch, IUDs, insertive condoms, etc. But what about guys who want to take responsibility too? Or women for whom a lot of the standard options don’t work? Enter a [...]
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Male Birth Control that may also kill HIV?
Posted: April 27, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, Birth Control, Cascade AIDS Project, CHATmosphere, CHATpdx, Educational, Ernesto Dominguez, Fight, HIV, Kills HIV, Penis, Pregnancy, STD, STDs, Testing, Youth
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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is CHATpdx?
Posted: August 2, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, CHATpdx, Condoms, Facebook, HIV, PDX, Portland, Sex, STDs, Testing, Twitter, Youth
Curbing HIV/AIDS Transmission (CHAT) is a collaboration between organizations and individuals working to curb HIV and AIDS transmission among young people through peer education and outreach, HIV testing, youth services and social media. Funded through the Department of Health and Human Service – Office of Minority Health (OMH). Our work is carried out by a number of [...]
