Our Collaborations

Despite recent sweeping cuts to HIV-related funding under the Trump administration, a Chicago collective is still pushing through to inform its community about healthcare and risks.

Pedro Alonso Serrano of the Chicago Queer Latine Collaborative is a colleague of Zapata’s, and he says that another major issue in the health care and medical world is the lack of cultural humility.

“What we find is that in the broader health workforce, we actually have fewer Latinos working in leadership roles in health systems,” said Serrano. “When we look at the number of Latino professors in public health, it’s fewer than 3 percent. Latinos are 18% of the population.”

The CQL Collaborative recently created a campaign called the “PrEPárate: PrEP For You & ME” to raise awareness on what HIV is and how to prevent it, emphasizing the importance of local campaigns.

About ISCI’s Supplement Project Spotlight Series: This series does a deep dive on research and findings from supplement projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States (EHE) Initiative. Keep reading to learn more about specific projects and click here for additional information on supplement project funding.

The monkeypox outbreak occurred just as the Chicago Queer Latina/x/o Collaborative (cqlab.info) launched PrEParate, a bilingual English/Spanish and culturally responsive campaign to promote PrEP to traditionally underserved Latina/x/o audiences throughout Cook County, IL. 

A community-based partnership of HIV service and prevention providers in Chicago has launched PrEPárate, a bilingual campaign in Spanish and English promoting HIV prevention via medicine. One important message: PrEP is free or low-cost for everyone.

Wattz Up! is a youth produced and hosted talk show broadcast live from Studio Y in Little Village. Young people share their thoughts on the latest events, curious factoids and favorite jams sprinkled with some sass, wit and giggles.

In this edition, Wattz Up! teamed up again with Planned Parenthood teens for a live special at Yollocalli's Fall Exhibition 2018.

Through sharing stories, questions, and concerns, the youth discuss topics like safe sex, consent, LGBTQ issues. Teens interviewed artist and illustrator Emma McKhann, for the campaign "My Body, My Story" and Pedro Alonso Serrano about pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP as HIV prevention.

This is a 2014 recording of an interview on CAN TV of Pedro A. Serrano, CQL Co-Founder, and ULP Co-Founder, Karari Olvera about the establishment of 'United Latino Pride' unitedlatinxpride.org. We share this video to showcase our early beginnings in Latine LGBTQ+ Chicago-based organizing.

Pedro A. Serrano and Danny Olvera of United Latino Pride discuss the organization's work in Chicago and the surrounding area. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).