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July 2019 | Partners in Philanthropy

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 19 July, 2019 | 0

With temperatures above 90 degrees and humidity levels almost as high, the Siempre Unidos staff hit the roads, plazas, parks and marketplaces of the cities of San Pedro Sula, Siguatepeque and their environs to ask for donations. In May and June, they carried large plastic bottles as seen here to ask community members to “regalameRead more

June 2019 | Gangs

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 19 June, 2019 | 0

“Our gang is the 18th Street gang. They’ve been in control [of the neighborhood] for five years and that keeps things calm,” Honduran Executive Director Pascual Torres explains after learning about the May 4 New York Times article, “Inside Gang Territory in Honduras: Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them.” The NYT journalists spentRead more

May 2019 | Annual Report 2018

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 25 April, 2019 | 0

We are proud of the accomplishments described in this 2018 Annual Report and glad for the opportunity to thank you for your generous support enabling high quality care for people living with HIV. As you will read, we now operate one of the best laboratories in Honduras for HIV treatment, continue to fill the gapRead more

April 2018 | Cesar Chavez Day

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 April, 2019 | 0

Cesar Chavez Day is a U.S. federal holiday celebrating the legacy of the civil and labor rights worker on his birthday, March 31. Chavez undertook nonviolent tactics to advocate for better pay and safe working conditions for U.S. agricultural laborers. In Honduras, people living with HIV face discrimination in the workplace. If they have lowRead more

February 2019 | Global Continuity of Care

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 February, 2019 | 0

Every few months a person affected by HIV in the U.S. contacts us to learn about our Honduran clinics. The individual may be HIV-positive, have a family member living with the illness or be a social worker. In these cases, the person with HIV will return to Honduras by choice or due to deportation andRead more

December 2018 | World AIDS Day

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 December, 2018 | 0

The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day, observed on December 1, is “know your status.” The UNAIDS campaign draws attention to HIV testing to ensure treatment and to learn the measures to protect partners from exposure. This is how we can help end AIDS. In Honduras, 61% of adults have been tested, a percentage farRead more

November 2018 | A Safe Place

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 November, 2018 | 0

“Siempre Unidos is really a safe place for people to be,” said Honduras Executive Director, Pascual Torres, during his recent visit to the San Francisco Bay Area. “Our patients face so many challenges – poverty, job discrimination, unsupportive families. Of course we must tend to their mental health needs.” Among people living with HIV, theRead more

October 2018 | Carolina

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 October, 2018 | 1

Carolina (a pseudonym) is a transgender woman in her late 20’s living with HIV. She speaks lovingly of her mother, now deceased, and describes how mama signaled acceptance of her gender change when she brought her home a dress. She seems reluctantly reconciled to discrimination, as when people on the bus move away from her.Read more

September 2018 | HIV Testing Story

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 September, 2018 | 0

Our patients remember the circumstances of learning their HIV test results. One woman had her blood drawn at the factory where she worked. She didn’t know the purpose of the test. Thirty minutes later, the nurse told her she was HIV-positive and had a month to live. A male patient learned his HIV test resultsRead more

August 2018 | An Email from Honduras

By Siempre Unidos | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 1 August, 2018 | 0

Hello, It is a pleasure to greet you. I am a young Honduran man of 22 years, a college student and live in the city of Tela on the Caribbean coast. For more than a year, I have begun to feel HIV symptoms and have never visited the doctor because I am afraid. I amRead more

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