California State and Local Leaders Call for Action on Alarming New Latino HIV/AIDS Trends

“With new data revealing surprising numbers of day laborers engaging in unsafe sex for money and a spiraling crystal meth crisis among Latino men, AIDS advocates today pressed state lawmakers to re-focus state HIV prevention efforts in response to disproportionate growth in new cases of HIV and AIDS among California’s Latinos. “We’re calling on Sacramento to increase and re-deploy resources to fight new infection trends,” said Oscar De La O, President and CEO of BIENESTAR, the state’s largest Latino HIV/AIDS service organization. “Proven new strategies like innovative mobile units with rapid HIV tests need Sacramento’s support if we’re going to begin to break the chain of infection in our community,” said De La O at a special legislative briefing in the state capitol supported by the California State Latino Legislative Caucus, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez.”

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