Citation:
Huerta, Diego. 2015. “HIV/AIDS Knowledge amongst Young, Gay Latino Immigrants.” WCFIA Undergraduate Thesis Conference. Cambridge, MA: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/ywrrm52e
Date Presented:
February 6Abstract:
This thesis examines issues of the shifting nature of borders, politically, geologically, and socially, and of identity and community amongst local young latino men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) and staff of an HIV/STD testing clinics who provide services to them along the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The young Latino MSM are at a higher risk for being infected with HIV/AIDS and there are many additional cultural and local issues that this marginalized population faces. This paper raises questions of how the local HIV/STD services reach out and address various local issues and how youth understand their health and risks in relations to their sexuality.
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