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Share Knowledge. Take Action. National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2014 Community Art Project

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Share knowledge. Take Action. Description of community art project for National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2014 lead by Farmworker Justice.

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Share Knowledge. Take Action.National Women and Girls

HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2014Community Art Project

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Farmworker Justice has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative to focus awareness and education efforts on one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in the United States: farmworkers.

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Through this project, Farmworker Justice provides free training, information, webinars, and tools on HIV prevention to strengthen non-HIV organizations’ awareness, knowledge, and action within Latino communities across the United States.

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National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a national campaign to raise awareness about HIV and its impact on women and girls.

Farmworker Justice is proud to work with our Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI) partners ASPIRA and the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA) to promote this important day.

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Women and girls have been impacted by HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic.

Women’s and girls’ risk of HIV is often overlooked, although approximately 25% of those infected with HIV in the United States are women.

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Black and Latina women are disproportionately affected compared to women of other races/ethnicities. By the end of 2010, Black women accounted for 64% of all estimated new HIV infections among women and Latina women accounted for an estimated 15%.

Source: Office of Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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We partnered with our Latina AAALI partners ASPIRA and NHCOA, and collected a series of thoughts and reactions on HIV/AIDS and its impact on women and girls.

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The responses we got were truly moving. Some women talked about when they first learned about HIV or when they first experienced the death of someone close to them due to HIV.

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Others admitted to not really even thinking about women and HIV and they had not realized that women have different risks than men do and that some women may have a harder time protecting themselves from HIV or taking care of themselves if already infected.

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Some people sent powerful words that came to mind when they thought about HIV and women: fear, exposed, voiceless, orphans, rape, mothers.

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We received responses in English, Spanish, and even Mixteco.

Thoughts came from farmworkers, farmworker organizations, health centers, youth, older adults, national organizations, and organization Presidents and CEOs.

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From each submission we received, we created a word cloud image of a single hand.

We then combined the hands to create a larger image of a tree to symbolize courage and strength, life and growth.

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Submission from Farmworker Justice Staff member:Geographic and social isolation of farmworkers leads to risky behaviors that can spread HIV

among populations that are not able to deal with the consequences. The impacts are felt across international borders. To help women and girls in farmworker communities, we need to be

proactive in our outreach and education efforts. Women and girls need information, tools and strategies to help them understand and protect themselves against HIV. If women and girls feel

informed and empowered to defend themselves, they are more likely to ask questions, be prepared, and take action. ---Virginia Ruiz, Director of Occupational & Environmental Health

Farmworker Justice

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Impact: Through this collective art project, we were able to reduce the stigma that surrounds HIV/AIDS by inviting non-health organizations to think about HIV/AIDS and to educate

community partners about the challenges women and girls face in receiving prevention information, securing testing, and connecting with treatment.

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To see all of the individual word clouds and read the individual messages, please visit our Facebook page.

www.facebook.com/FarmworkerJustice

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Participating Organizations

100 Black Men of AmericaASPIRACenter for Black EquityEMPOWERRFarmworker JusticeNational Hispanic Council on AgingNOBLERural Women's Health ProjectSea Mar Community Health CentersSouthwest Key ProgramsUniversity of North Carolina Health Behavior MPH: Class of 2013Mexican Consulate Ventanilla de Salud - CalexicoMexican Consulate Ventanilla de Salud - Seattle

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Share Knowledge. Take Action