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Deaf Community HIV/AIDS Outreach and Networking

Deaf Community HIV/AIDS Outreach and Networking. AIDS 2012 July 26, 2012. AGENDA. Introductions Resources in DC History of Deaf AIDS What can we do?. US Deaf Community & HIV/AIDS. Leila Monaghan University of Wyoming UMUC July 27, 2012. HIV/AIDS in the United States: An Overview.

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Deaf Community HIV/AIDS Outreach and Networking

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  1. Deaf Community HIV/AIDS Outreach and Networking AIDS 2012 July 26, 2012

  2. AGENDA • Introductions • Resources in DC • History of Deaf AIDS • What can we do?

  3. US Deaf Community& HIV/AIDS Leila Monaghan University of Wyoming UMUC July 27, 2012

  4. HIV/AIDS in the United States:An Overview

  5. AIDS VU Map: 2008 US Datahttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/hiv-aids-map-data/

  6. HIV/AIDS in US Deaf Communities

  7. HIV Infection Rates from M aryland Public Testing Sites2003-2010

  8. Maryland 2003, 2005-2011 Public HIV Testing Results

  9. Deaf Lost to AIDS:http://deafaids.info/main/names • 499 names listed • 3 new names in 2011, 7 names added in 2010, 9 in 2009, 28 in 2006 • I think more than 3 deaths in 2011 • San Francisco person adds names • Not know DC Deaf people

  10. AIDS present in the US Deaf community since 1980s • Deaths start 1980s in New York & San Francisco • Robert Allis, New York, died 1986 • Sam Edwards, New York, died 1989 • Bruce Hlibok, New York, died 1995

  11. The Gay Deaf Community of the 1980s and 1990s • Obituaries of Allen Lee Forbes and Michael Felts at http://deafaids.info/main/names

  12. DC gay Deaf community • R. Kevin Mallinson: • DC Man “9 out of 10 of my friends have HIV”

  13. History of community programs • NY had program starting 1980s • Maryland had program starting in 1990 • Studies and programs developed in 1990s. • Programs shut down since 2000 in Connecticut, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco and Maryland. • Still some programs.

  14. http://hivdeaf.blogspot.com

  15. AIDS kills different people today

  16. Resources • http://hivdeaf.blogspot.com/ • #deafhiv @LeilaMonaghan • CSSQ (from Canada) website: • http://www.cssq.org/english/categories-hiv-risk-en.html • From Chicago • http://www.advocatehealth.com/immc/deafandhardofhearingprogram

  17. FIGURE. Estimated number of AIDS diagnoses and deaths and estimated number of persons living with AIDS diagnosis* and living with diagnosed or undiagnosed HIV infection† among persons aged ≥13 years --- United States, 1981--2008http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6021a2.htm

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