During Women’s History Month, many women are recognized for their talent or achievements. It is important to raise awareness of how women from all backgrounds, races, and ethnicities can play an important role in society. Their role and contributions are essential and indispensable legacies of which we can be proud, comforted; that inspire courage and far-reaching vision.
It is not just a question of designating March as Women’s History Month, March 8th as International Women’s Day, or March 10th as National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day for Women and Girls. We invite all members of the community to commemorate this legacy with appropriate actions and activities not only during this month but throughout the year.
We believe that equality should not be a privilege but a right. It is important to recognize, encourage and support women’s efforts to continue contributing to the development of the communities where they live, pray and have sex. The fact that receptive sex is riskier than insertive sex makes women more likely to get HIV during vaginal or anal sex than their sexual partners.
As we continue to move toward eliminating HIV and AIDS in the United States, women remain vulnerable to infection, especially black or African-American women, and Hispanic women. The latest CDC report mentioned that black women accounted for the majority of new HIV diagnoses among women in the United States. An estimated 14% of transgender women have HIV.
High Impacto is using this month as an opportunity to remember how important women are in everyone’s life. The truth is that we do this not only during the month of March but during the year promoting and testing FOR HIV, implementing the different prevention tools such as PrEP and TASP (Treatment as Prevention or U = U), to the community and we are offering free health insurance for the community in general.
For more information about our free health insurance and all HIV prevention programs, contact us at info@highimpacto.org and by phone at 954-947-3603.