By Giorlando Ramirez, Krutika Amin, and Cynthia Cox Twitter COVID-19 deaths in the United States have surpassed 200,000, and the coronavirus is now the third leading cause of death in this country, after heart disease and cancer. Before the pandemic, the U.S. already had the highest overall mortality rate among similarly large and wealthy countries,

Gravlee C. C. (2020). Systemic racism, chronic health inequities, and COVID-19: A syndemic in the making?. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 32(5), e23482. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23482 For a brief moment, in the early days of COVID‐19, some reports heralded the new coronavirus, SARS‐CoV‐2, as a “great

Award to be presented at Virtual Cielo Gala – October 28, 2020 (New York, NY). The Latino Commission on AIDS announced today that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health, will receive its esteemed Esperanza (Hope) Award at its

New York, NY September 9, 2020—The National Hispanic/Latinx Health Leadership Network is proud to share the first ever community driven federal health policy agenda. The health policy agenda was finalized through a community participatory process in 2020, after close to two years of arduous work from over 200 organizations and

The Black AIDS Institute, San Francisco Community Health Center and Latino Commission on AIDS, three organizations led by and serving people of color, are joining forces to address the challenges posed by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) as they utilize their existing strengths and resources to continue addressing health inequities among their constituents, including those created