Transcript HIV/AIDS and the Deaf Community

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?
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US Deaf Community
& HIV/AIDS
Leila Monaghan
University of Wyoming
UMUC
July 27, 2012
HIV/AIDS in the United States:
An Overview
AIDS VU Map: 2008 US Data
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/0
6/hiv-aids-map-data/
HIV/AIDS in
US Deaf Communities
HIV
Infection
Rates
from M
aryland
Public
Testing
Sites
2003-2010
Maryland 2003, 2005-2011
Public HIV Testing Results
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
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AIDS present in the US Deaf
community since 1980s
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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
The Gay Deaf Community of
the 1980s and 1990s
 Obituaries
of Allen Lee Forbes and
Michael Felts at
http://deafaids.info/main/names
DC gay Deaf community
R. Kevin Mallinson:
 DC Man “9 out of 10 of my friends have
HIV”
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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.
http://hivdeaf.blogspot.com
AIDS kills different people
today
Resources
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http://hivdeaf.blogspot.com/
#deafhiv @LeilaMonaghan
CSSQ (from Canada) website:
http://www.cssq.org/english/categories-hivrisk-en.html
From Chicago
http://www.advocatehealth.com/immc/deafan
dhardofhearingprogram
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--2008
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6021a2.htm