New Paper in New England Journal of Medicine Calls for Health Care Community to Help End Latino HIV Crisis, Outlines Comprehensive Approach and Blueprint for Action. WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / October 9, 2024 / In a new paper published on Oct. 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine, experts are urging all sectors of the health care community to urgently evolve their approaches to meet the continuing HIV/AIDS crisis among Latinos.
This call-to-action comes at a time when the decades-long effort to end the epidemic in the U.S. is showing overall progress.
"As we celebrate overall success in curbing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Latino HIV health inequities and the continuing HIV/AIDS crisis stand out as a failure that must be addressed urgently. The good news is that if we act now with a combination of existing and new approaches, we can achieve the kind of HIV prevention and care improvements for Latinos that we are seeing with other populations," said lead author Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health.
"To secure progress in ending the HIV epidemic for Latinos, we must address the structural drivers of HIV among Latino communities and engage a diverse set of stakeholders to rethink and improve our national response to this crisis." In "The U.S.
Latino HIV Crisis - Ending an Era of Invisibility," experts point to several factors that .