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May 19 is
National Asian
and Pacific
Islander (API)
HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day.
The
Banyan Tree
Project --a
national
campaign to
fight HIV/AIDS
stigma and
discrimination
in API
communities—is
the lead for
this day.
According to the
CDC, the number
of APIs living
with AIDS has
climbed by more
than 10 percent
in each of the
last 5 years.
Sixty-seven
percent of API
men living with
HIV/AIDS in 2005
are men who have
had sex with
other men.
Eighty percent
of API women
living with
HIV/AIDS in 2005
were infected
through
heterosexual
contact.
PROGRAM
Welcome
Henrietta
Ho-Asjoe,
MPS
Director of
Community
Development,
Center for
the Study of
Asian
American
Health, NYU
School of
Medicine
Presentations
“An Update
on HIV/AIDS
in Asian and
Pacific
Islander
Communities”
John J.
Chin, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor,
Department
of Urban
Affairs and
Planning,
Hunter
College of
the City
University
of New York
“Women,
Immigrants
and
HIV/AIDS”
Sumon Chin,
MPH
Director of
HIV/AIDS
Services,
Chinese
American
Planning
Council
Moderator
Suki Terada
Ports
Drector, Family
Health Project
Co-Sponsors
APICHA
Asian and
Pacific
Islander
American Health
Forum
NYU Center for
the Study of
Asian American
Health
Chinese American
Planning Council
Family Health
Project
Project CHARGE
