Hard Times Led Director of Tijuana AIDS Hospice to His Life’s Work

Editor’s Note: The third in a weekend series on HIV in the Latino community profiles José Antonio Granillo, the director of Casa Hogar Las Memorias - the only AIDS/HIV hospice in Baja California. Latinos only make up about 15 percent of the U.S. population, but they account for 18 percent of new HIV cases in the United States. “Stories Against the Silence: HIV/AIDS in the Latino Community” aims to bring awareness to this growing but silent epidemic.

In an empty lot – surrounded by rats, dust, and covered with newspaper sheets – José Antonio Granillo hit rock bottom with his drug and alcohol addiction.

Fortunately in 1997, Granillo found a solution to his problems when he decided to enter a rehabilitation center in Tijuana called Centro de Integración y Recuperación para Enfermos de Alcoholismo y Drogadicción (CIRAD)/ Center for Integration and Convalescence for those Ailing from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, a nonprofit organization with several centers in Baja California, Mexico.”*

*From: http://news.ncmonline.com
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