FJ's work on HIV Prevention

Health & Safety - HIV/AIDS and farmworkers

Farmworker Justice has been providing HIV/AIDS prevention efforts aimed at migrant workers and their families since 1998.

HIV/AIDS is a serious concern for farmworker communities due to their limited access to health care. In comparison to other Latino groups and the U.S. population as a whole, migrant workers are at increased risk for this disease. Few farmworkers have employer-provided or government-subsidized health insurance. Also, language barriers, illiteracy and the difficulties of a highly-mobile lifestyle conspire to impede migrants' access to HIV prevention information and services.

Farmworker Justice's work on HIV Prevention is centered around three areas:

• HIV Prevention Programs --Helping organizations set up and implement specific HIV prevention programs such as POL and promotores de salud.
• Technical Assistance with HIV Programs --Helping community organizations and health care providers improve and adapt HIV prevention programs.
• Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative- Helping non-HIV oriented organizations become engaged with HIV prevention work and messaging.

Check out our new rural health initiative Poder Sano for resources, links to other organizations working on HIV prevention and the latest on trainings and other events.

 

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