NHCOA is one of three national Hispanic/Latino partners of the CDC’s Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI), a national effort to inform Hispanic older adults, their families, and caregivers about HIV/AIDS as well encourage them to talk HIV in their communities and with their loved ones. To learn how you can act against HIV/AIDS, please visit www.actagainstaids.org or www.nhcoa.org.

As a partner of the CDC’s Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative, NHCOA understands we all have a role to play in preventing new HIV infections, as well as the spread of AIDS.

When we hosted our Promoting Communities of Success Regional Meeting, NHCOA sat down with several community leaders to talk about HIV/AIDS and older adults. In this last installment of a three-part video series, the leaders offered suggestions on how to engage Latino seniors:

“We need to go to where they live because many won’t come find us. We need to seek them out…We need to knock on their doors.”

When NHCOA recently visited with Hispanic older adults at Vida Senior Centers in Washington, DC to talk to them about HIV/AIDS, we reaffirmed this statement. One older adult even spoke about the important role seniors can play in bridging the intergenerational gap.

Because of the influential role older adults play in their communities and families, there is a prime opportunity for Latino seniors to lead the charge in talking HIV and acting against AIDS in the Hispanic community.

In light of the International AIDS Conference, NHCOA has joined forces with other Latino/Hispanic organizations to act against AIDS by sending a unified message to the Latino community: Get the facts. Get tested. Get involved.