Voices of Immigrants In Action (VIA)
Farmworker Justice is a long-time collaborator with the Rural Women's Health Project (RWHP). RWHP has created a new HIV prevention toolkit for Hispanic Immigrants in rural areas and for policy-makers and provders committed to shifting existing policies to reduce the increase of HIV/AIDS. The VIA Tools are the result of a year-long, intense participatory research initiative in Tennessee and Florida. The 2010 VIA Community Survey and Community Exchange Sessions provide the basis for the following fact sheets and curriculum.
VIA Mission:
The mission of Voices of Immigrants In Action (VIA) is to promote dynamic communication addressing the emerging issues of the Hispanic immigrant communities, as well as mobilizing a multi-level response to factors affecting HIV/AIDS transmission in Hispanic Immigrant communities in the rural South.
VIA Focus:
There is a void in HIV/AIDS incidence data that specifically focuses on Hispanic Immigrants in the South as a unique community. This is critical to quantifying prevalence and addressing prevention. Both risk factors and health access barriers for documented and undocumented Hispanics in the region, combined with the anti-immigrant fervor in the US, exacerbate their potential risk for HIV infection.
The VIA Initiative illuminates the issues affecting Hispanic Immigrants in the rural South. By disseminating the findings, VIA broadens the data pool, informs health care providers and policy brokers and mobilizes the Hispanic Immigrant community’s to take action around HIV/AIDS prevention.
2010 VIA Tools:
Fact Sheets:
Focus on Community
Focus on Women
Focus on Youth
English
Spanish
Perspectives on HIV/AIDS
Video:
“Hear the VIA Voices” -10 minute bi-lingual, multi-media video
Curriculum:
VIA HIV Curriculum for Rural Hispanic Immigrants (Spanish only)
Herramientas (toolkit)-- consists of 9 seperate files
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The VIA Initiative is a project of the Rural Women's Health Project, in collaboration with the Alianza de Mujeres Activas, the North Central Florida Farmworker Corridor-HIV Task Force and Rural Medical Services, Inc. Project partners are the Southern AIDS Coalition and Farmworker Justice.
Sign up for Bi-monthly VIA InSites- In depth focus on correlating issues around HIV/AIDS and rural Hispanic Immigrants in the South. Will include policy, data findings and community education materials.
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