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La Casa de Don Pedro's NLAAD Celebration
La Casa de Don Pedro Celebrated National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day by Educating and Reducing the Stigma of HIV/AIDS among Latinos.
La Casa de Don Pedro hosted National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) on Saturday, October 6 at it's 23 Broadway Community Center in Newark, NJ. This year’s National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day’s theme was "Celebrando La Vida (Celebrating Life)."
National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) was a free and entertaining event open to the public that focused on raising awareness about HIV/AIDS in the community, education about the latest prevention and treatment options and encouraged advocacy. La Casa de Don Pedro’s NLAAD event was one of hundreds held across the country to foster community engagement and reduce the stigma, especially among Latinos, associated in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Community partners like Broadway House for Continuing Care, New Jersey Community Research Initiative, Center for Health Identity Behavior and Prevention Studies, Hackensack University, and Gilead Sciences joined the event and provided resources to residents.
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NLAAD attendees participated in educational conversations about the latest information available to prevent and manage HIV, including using PrEP, the most current prevention approach, HIV rapid testing, condom demonstrations, HIV testing, and raffles.
“The superheroes of the Youth, Family, and Health Services Division engaged our clients in overcoming barriers in their sexual health and highlighted all the options available to them,” said La Casa de Don Pedro’s Health Services Unit Manager, Noshella Singh. “Clients were also exposed to and showed great interest many La Casa de Don Pedro programs available such as the Heart Disease Prevention Program, Mammogram, and Pap smear screening to name a few.”
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This event was made possible by a grant from The New Jersey Department of Health, HIV/AIDS, STD, and TB Services, and sponsors: Premiere Gold: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., M&T Bank, and PSEG, Silver: RWJBarnabas Health, Physically Fit: Lotus Equity Group and Rutgers University-Newark; Mentally Strong: Broadway House for Continuing Care, Horizon NJ Health, and Thornton Agency.
About National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day
The National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) is a national day dedicated to mobilizing Latino/Hispanic communities in an effort to raise HIV awareness, reduce its stigma, promote HIV testing, prevention, and education, in addition to other critical health issues such as viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis (TB).
For more information on National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, visit www.nlaad.org.
About La Casa de Don Pedro
Since its founding in 1972 in Newark, New Jersey, La Casa de Don Pedro's values have been driven by a mission to foster self-sufficiency, empowerment, and neighborhood revitalization, and a deep-rooted history of shared experiences with the community. Recognizing the greater Newark community’s adversity, La Casa emphasizes, celebrates, and nurtures core values of advocacy, responsibility (civic, personal, financial), education, home, diversity, and creativity in a culturally sensitive and caring environment.
La Casa de Don Pedro offers a comprehensive, nurturing, proven solution that addresses the social determinants of health, providing safety, stability, tools, resources, and opportunities that enrich peoples’ lives and builds social capital, helping them overcome their adverse experiences and become economically prosperous.
For more information about La Casa de Don Pedro, visit www.lacasanwk.org.
