PhD student Gerardo Betancourt explores how an HIV program for Spanish-speaking communities is applying lessons learned to help communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Categories: FIFSW Students in the NewsA new article, by FIFSW PhD Candidate, Gerardo Betancourt, explores how the organization Community Without Borders has applied what it learned from the HIV pandemic to protect Spanish-speaking communities from COVID-19.
The piece, entitled “Code blue! Implementing a COVID-19 emergency response, supported by an HIV community program: Communities without borders, a Spanish-Speaking intervention in Toronto, Canada” was published in the Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services.
As Betancourt writes, “The article argues that is precise because we have learned as marginalized communities that reacted at the beginning of the AIDS early days, that HIV/AIDS educators adapted very fast interventions, programs, and counselling to alleviate societal effect pandemic against COVID-19 new infections.”