The Bay vs. LA Thread
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i was just joking but technically..
Who Has AIDS in L.A. County?
Stories Against the Silence: HIV/AIDS in the Latino Community
New America Media, News Report, Cynthia Gómez, Posted: Feb 17, 2008
Editor's Note: About 40 percent of people living with AIDS in Los Angeles County are Latinos, who tend to have later detection rates than other groups. Part II in a weekend series on HIV in the Latino community.
LOS ANGELES – More than 25 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and with more than one million people infected with HIV/AIDS in the United States, a clear trend has emerged: the risk of infection is much greater for Latinos and African Americans than other ethnicities.
Although Latinos represent about 15 percent of the U.S. population, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimate that they account for more than 17 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS and 18 percent of new cases. The disparity between population and infection rates is much greater for African Americans, who only make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population yet represent 41 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS and 50 percent of new cases.
Jose de La Torre, treatment educator for Bienestar,
says AIDS is increasing among Latina women.
Photo by Moisés Reyes
In Los Angeles County, however, statistics on HIV/AIDS skew from these national numbers primarily due to its large Latino population.
“Latinos represent an increasing proportion of all Los Angeles County HIV cases because they represent an increasing proportion of the county’s population,” says Douglas M. Frye, director of the HIV Epidemiology Program for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Frye’s program estimates that as of 2006, Latinos made up 40 percent of the 21,600 people living with AIDS in L.A. County. This makes Latinos the ethnicity with the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County, followed by whites (36 percent) and African Americans (21 percent).
According to CDC studies, the majority of HIV positive Latino men were exposed to HIV through sexual contact with other men (59 percent). A smaller number was infected by drug injections (19 percent) and a third group was infected by heterosexual contact (17 percent).
The majority of Latinas were exposed to HIV through heterosexual contact (73 percent). A much smaller percentage was infected by the injection of drugs (23 percent).
Latinas and African Americans make up 82 percent of women living with AIDS, according to CDC data from 2005. And the situation is getting worse.
“AIDS is increasing among women,” says Jose de La Torre, treatment educator for the Hispanic organization Bienestar in Van Nuys, “and usually they are infected by the husband.”
“Because of cultural pressures, Latino MSM (men having sex with men) are also having sexual relationships, and/or marrying women, but sometimes continue to have sex with men in secret,” Frye says. “Latino MSM are at risk for acquiring the virus and may then transmit it to their wife or girlfriend.”
Latinos living in Los Angeles County also have a very late detection rate, according to the CDC Supplement to HIV/AIDS Surveillance (SHAS).
“Forty-four percent of Latinos diagnosed with AIDS and interviewed between 2000 and 2004 were diagnosed with AIDS within one month of learning they were HIV positive, compared to 33 percent of African Americans and 20 percent of whites,” says Dr. Amy Rock Wohl, chief epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s HIV Epidemiology Program.
“Some of this may be due to language barriers, fears of revealing immigration status and a lack of understanding that they are at risk for HIV infection,” notes Wohl.
De La Torre agrees, adding that “we need programs that focus more on the Latino community” because immigration, linguistic and cultural factors pose very specific challenges to fight against HIV/AIDS among Latinos.
This series first ran in Spanish in “El Nuevo Sol,” a publication for Spanish-speaking college journalists at California State University, Northridge. It also aired on “Nuestra Voz,” a public affairs show on KPFK, Los Angeles, and in Fresno on Radio Bilingüe.
Who Has AIDS in L.A. County?
Stories Against the Silence: HIV/AIDS in the Latino Community
New America Media, News Report, Cynthia Gómez, Posted: Feb 17, 2008
Editor's Note: About 40 percent of people living with AIDS in Los Angeles County are Latinos, who tend to have later detection rates than other groups. Part II in a weekend series on HIV in the Latino community.
LOS ANGELES – More than 25 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and with more than one million people infected with HIV/AIDS in the United States, a clear trend has emerged: the risk of infection is much greater for Latinos and African Americans than other ethnicities.
Although Latinos represent about 15 percent of the U.S. population, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimate that they account for more than 17 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS and 18 percent of new cases. The disparity between population and infection rates is much greater for African Americans, who only make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population yet represent 41 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS and 50 percent of new cases.
says AIDS is increasing among Latina women.
Photo by Moisés Reyes
In Los Angeles County, however, statistics on HIV/AIDS skew from these national numbers primarily due to its large Latino population.
“Latinos represent an increasing proportion of all Los Angeles County HIV cases because they represent an increasing proportion of the county’s population,” says Douglas M. Frye, director of the HIV Epidemiology Program for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Frye’s program estimates that as of 2006, Latinos made up 40 percent of the 21,600 people living with AIDS in L.A. County. This makes Latinos the ethnicity with the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County, followed by whites (36 percent) and African Americans (21 percent).
According to CDC studies, the majority of HIV positive Latino men were exposed to HIV through sexual contact with other men (59 percent). A smaller number was infected by drug injections (19 percent) and a third group was infected by heterosexual contact (17 percent).
The majority of Latinas were exposed to HIV through heterosexual contact (73 percent). A much smaller percentage was infected by the injection of drugs (23 percent).
Latinas and African Americans make up 82 percent of women living with AIDS, according to CDC data from 2005. And the situation is getting worse.
“AIDS is increasing among women,” says Jose de La Torre, treatment educator for the Hispanic organization Bienestar in Van Nuys, “and usually they are infected by the husband.”
“Because of cultural pressures, Latino MSM (men having sex with men) are also having sexual relationships, and/or marrying women, but sometimes continue to have sex with men in secret,” Frye says. “Latino MSM are at risk for acquiring the virus and may then transmit it to their wife or girlfriend.”
Latinos living in Los Angeles County also have a very late detection rate, according to the CDC Supplement to HIV/AIDS Surveillance (SHAS).
“Forty-four percent of Latinos diagnosed with AIDS and interviewed between 2000 and 2004 were diagnosed with AIDS within one month of learning they were HIV positive, compared to 33 percent of African Americans and 20 percent of whites,” says Dr. Amy Rock Wohl, chief epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s HIV Epidemiology Program.
“Some of this may be due to language barriers, fears of revealing immigration status and a lack of understanding that they are at risk for HIV infection,” notes Wohl.
De La Torre agrees, adding that “we need programs that focus more on the Latino community” because immigration, linguistic and cultural factors pose very specific challenges to fight against HIV/AIDS among Latinos.
This series first ran in Spanish in “El Nuevo Sol,” a publication for Spanish-speaking college journalists at California State University, Northridge. It also aired on “Nuestra Voz,” a public affairs show on KPFK, Los Angeles, and in Fresno on Radio Bilingüe.
the bay has hella MMA, i dont know what youre all smoking, San Jose has AKA which is one of the top 5 gyms in the nation and #1 in Cali, with fighters like josh koscheck, jon fitch, mike swick, paul buentello, cung le used to train there but he opened up his own spot now i think.
on el camino itself there are so many jiu jitsu spots its rediculous, majority of them are gracie too.
to me you cant really compare the bay and la.. its 2 whole different atmospheres, its like comparing the sun to the moon.. just different. One thing i dont like about LA tho, you're driving and everywhere you go, you cant drive far without hitting a ghetto ass area.
on el camino itself there are so many jiu jitsu spots its rediculous, majority of them are gracie too.
to me you cant really compare the bay and la.. its 2 whole different atmospheres, its like comparing the sun to the moon.. just different. One thing i dont like about LA tho, you're driving and everywhere you go, you cant drive far without hitting a ghetto ass area.
BUT IF YOU INCLUDE RAMPAGE'S BELT SINCE HE WAS STILL FIGHTING OUTTA OC UNDER JUANITO AND TITO'S BELT.
AND IF YOU INCLUDE RANDY'S BELT WHEN HE WAS STILL FIGHTING UNDER LEGENDS GYM IN LA. EVEN CHUCK'S TITLE REIGN SINCE SOME CONSIDER SAN LUIS OBISPO SOUTHERN CALI.THEN I WOULD SAY SO CAL MMA GYMS HAVE BEEN MORE SIGNIFICANT. YEAH WE COULD TALK ABOUT STRIKEFORCE BELTS, KOTC, AND SHIT LIKE THAT, BUT THE REAL TITLES COME OUT THE UFC AT THIS POINT.
AND NOR CAL HASNT HAD ANY REAL SIGNIFICANT CHAMP COME OUT OF THEIR GYMS YET??? BUT IT COULD ALL CHANGE SOON.
AND IF YOU INCLUDE RANDY'S BELT WHEN HE WAS STILL FIGHTING UNDER LEGENDS GYM IN LA. EVEN CHUCK'S TITLE REIGN SINCE SOME CONSIDER SAN LUIS OBISPO SOUTHERN CALI.THEN I WOULD SAY SO CAL MMA GYMS HAVE BEEN MORE SIGNIFICANT. YEAH WE COULD TALK ABOUT STRIKEFORCE BELTS, KOTC, AND SHIT LIKE THAT, BUT THE REAL TITLES COME OUT THE UFC AT THIS POINT.
AND NOR CAL HASNT HAD ANY REAL SIGNIFICANT CHAMP COME OUT OF THEIR GYMS YET??? BUT IT COULD ALL CHANGE SOON.
Thats cuz those black dudes got bigger dicks more chance of ripping up the aids infested mexican coochie. The mexican girls in LA get aids cuz the ese's butt fuck eachother in prison and get out and gang bang the mexican hoodrats with no rubbers. Then after they're used up they get pimped by black dudes who bust there pussy open with the mandingo dick catch aids and in return go back and fuck all the black girls............lol
j/k You know that shit is injected into black babys at birth when there in the county hospital.
Yup that place is goooood, it was on Food Chanel too!
The Bay got Mount Diablo for hiking, That one wine-dee ass rode in frisco, hella bridges if your into bridges or if you just need a place to commit suicide, we got beaches too!, Near Monterey which has one of the best golf courses in the world.
LA has.... um...... a lot of um....... murders and smog (wait already said)...... um....... huh....... TMC making britney spears crash into shit!
The Bay got Mount Diablo for hiking, That one wine-dee ass rode in frisco, hella bridges if your into bridges or if you just need a place to commit suicide, we got beaches too!, Near Monterey which has one of the best golf courses in the world.
LA has.... um...... a lot of um....... murders and smog (wait already said)...... um....... huh....... TMC making britney spears crash into shit!
