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June 2024 | Welcome, Sophia and Curt, and Best Wishes to Amy

By Siempre Unidos | Monthly Update, Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 June, 2024 | 0

After 9 years serving as the Executive Director of Siempre Unidos, Amy is retiring to focus on family and friends. We are extremely grateful for her years of dedicated, skilled leadership. We are fortunate to have found two highly skilled professionals who are willing to work part-time to replace Amy. Please welcome Sophia Sleap andRead more

December 2023 | Let Communities Lead

By Siempre Unidos | Monthly Update, Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 December, 2023 | 0

The above slogan is the United Nation’s annual theme to mark World AIDSDay. It recognizes that communities impacted by HIV/AIDS must be supported and emboldened as leaders to help end AIDS. Since its founding, Siempre Unidos has employed people living with HIV as case workers, HIV educators, and program managers. We have created patient advisoryRead more

Febuary 2021 | Healthy Meals

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 February, 2021 | 0

Most of us eat twice as much salt as is recommended. High sodium consumption contributes to high blood pressure and increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. And so begins the presentation on healthy eating by our new nurse. Trained in nutrition, he asks the masked patients to identify foods that are high inRead more

January 2021 | Rebuilding

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 January, 2021 | 0

“So, so happy,” writes Pascual Torres, Siempre Unidos Honduras Executive Director, about Zoila whose joy is evident through the mask. She has just received a cookstove, mattress, and a month’s supply of food. Immediately after November’s hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated Honduras, we put out a call to raise $120,000. Seventy donors responded heroically includingRead more

December 2020 | Les Misérables

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 December, 2020 | 0

A patient and her daughter carry a new mattress home down a muddy road. “It’s not that they are thieves. They are just starving,” Pascual said in describing the risk he takes when traveling to neighborhoods where patients live. Devastation wrought by November’s two hurricanes, pandemic curfews, and extreme poverty necessitate home visits to bringRead more

November 2020 | Hurricanes

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 November, 2020 | 0

Exactly 22 years ago, Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras. The second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, it caused over 7,000 fatalities in the country. Images of mudslides and floods washing away villages and destroying infrastructure and crops were seen around the world. In response to the crisis, Denise Main and her family traveled to Honduras where theyRead more

October 2020 | Direct relief for our patients

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 October, 2020 | 0

The emails fly back and forth. “How many bottles of medication for blood pressure control? Diabetes? Are you out of sutures? What about antibiotics?” Denise and the Siempre Unidos physicians are making orders for the next maritime shipment from Direct Relief, a nonprofit organization donating medications and medical supplies. Since 2008, Direct Relief has sentRead more

September 2020 | Covid Impact on HIV Care

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 September, 2020 | 0

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupts care to people living with HIV and threatens to undo global progress in reducing the disease’s burden according to the International AIDS Society and a recent New York Times article. In their responses to the coronavirus, governments have shifted resources away from HIV care, and national lockdowns have reduced access toRead more

August 2020 | How to qualify for nutritional support

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 4 August, 2020 | 0

5 lbs each of flour, sugar, beans, rice, cooking oil, salt, canned goods and other items Do you answer “yes” to most of the following questions? HIV positive? Live in extreme poverty? Single mother? High viral load? Low CD4 count? HIV related co-infections? Anemia? Underweight? Unemployed or underemployed? Lack family support? If you are aRead more

July 2020 | HIV, Poverty & Covid 19

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 4 July, 2020 | 0

Zoom Meeting with Siempre Unidos “Do your part” to prevent the spread of Covid 19 reads the large label found on the bag held by Pascual Torres, Honduras Executive Director. It holds flour, cooking oil, rice, and other food staples provided monthly to the 60 HIV-positive patients who live on less than $2/day and mustRead more

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