Date: May 19, 2010
Time: 1PM to 4PM
Place: New York University School of Medicine
550 First Avenue – Smilow Seminar Room
New York, NY 10016
Free Admission
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
