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National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) (Spanish: El Día Nacional de Concientización Latina del SIDA) takes place in the United States of America and its territories on October 15, the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, and aims to increase awareness of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in the Hispanic/Latino population living in the ...
Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (English: Together We Can Stop AIDS) is a mural created by American artist and social activist Keith Haring in 1989. The mural was painted to raise awareness to the AIDS epidemic. It is located next to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona museum in the El Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [8] [9] [10] is a retrovirus [11] that attacks the immune system.It is a preventable disease. [5] It can be managed with treatment and become a manageable chronic health condition. [5]
[citation needed] A 2004–2006 study by Patterson et al. in 2006 showed that HIV prevalence in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, cities on the U.S. border, was 6 percent among female sex workers and 16 percent among injecting drug users. Research by Gayet et al. in 2006 also showed that HIV prevalence among male long-distance truck drivers in ...
Sida may refer to: Sida, a genus of cladoceran water fleas; Sida, a genus of flowering plants; Security Identification Display Area, US FAA; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, a Swedish governmental agency; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a disease, abbreviated as SIDA in several languages
Sida is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, [ 2 ] especially in the Americas. [ 3 ] Plants of the genus may be known generally as fanpetals [ 1 ] or sidas .