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"It still isn't easy for people to hear about AIDS, about HIV, about syphilis or gonorrhea," says Alicia Burrola, director of Alcance Latino, a program of the People of Color AIDS Foundation, known as POCAF. The program is dedicated to giving the local Latino community information about sexually transmitted diseases.
Burrola says her and her colleagues' work as health educators is "a daily task, a new beginning every day."See the full content of this document
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Alcance Latino's success within a community that generally shies away from discussing sexually transmitted diseases and ways to prevent them comes from educators' knowledge of the community they serve.
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