Día de la Mujer Latina Receives Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Award to Train Promotores/Community Health Workers and Host Health Fiestas in 5 Cities
March 15, 2010, Houston, TX —Día de La Mujer Latina, Inc announced today that the funds provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas will enable the training of 100 Promotores de Salud and the celebration of five DML Health Fiestas to serve Latino/Hispanic communities in Dallas, Houston, Corpus Christi, El Paso and Austin, Texas, over the next year. On March 27th, DML, in partnership with the Hispanic Community Advisory Council, will co-host Feria de Salud 2010 at the Dallas Market Hall, on 2100 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas 75207. The following dates have been confirmed with other key collaborators in these cities: May 22 (Houston); June 19 (El Paso); August 7 (Corpus Christi); and September 25 (Austin). Learn more.
Dia de la Mujer Latina ™ expresses concern with the New Screening Recommendations
HOUSTON– Nov. 16, 2009 – Día de la Mujer Latina™ (DML) is a national nonprofit organization, dedicated to educating and eliminating health disparities to breast and cervical cancer access to screening among Latinas. For the last 12 years, DML has conducted health fiestas across 30 states in the US as well as in Puerto Rico, reaching over 55,000 and training over 129 Promoters and Community Health Workers. After reviewing the new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forces (USPSTF) regarding mammography screening for women over 50; DML feels as if this announcement has set back all the work that has been accomplished over the years in raising awareness of the importance of early detection at age 40.
DML realizes that the current mammography screening may have some deficiencies; however,it is still better to be on the side of caution rather than risking your life to a mortality statistic. Venus Ginés, founder of DML has creatively raised awareness over the importance of early detection screening at 40 and older, due to her breast cancer being detected at 41years of age. Many of the trained Promotoras (Community Health Workers) across the country have tirelessly educated and navigated those underserved and uninsured populations at-risk to early detection screening, such as clinical breast exams and mammograms at DML health fiestas. Due to the fact that Latinas survival rates to breast cancer are poorer than other racial and ethnic groups, DML stands by the current guidelines and will continue to encourage Latinos to get screened at 40 years and older and earlier if there is family history.
Contact Venus Gines for more information.
US Preventive Services Task Forces opposes routine mammograms for women age 40-49 and recommends routine mammography screenings every two years for women ages 50-74
Dia de la Mujer Latina & the Intercultural Ctr. for Health & Wellness extends its condolences over the untimely passing of Sara Gonzalez and will pay tribute to her as "Amiga Latina" at its May 10th Health Fiesta
ATLANTA, February 19th 2008-- On behalf of Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc and the Intercutural Center for Health & Wellness, inc., we wish to convey our sincerest sympathy to the family of Sara Gonzalez, as well as to the GHCC members and staff. Sara and I met in 1993 when I first moved to Atlanta and as the Director of Community Relations, she offered a warm welcome to me and my family and a friendship that spanned 14 years. We worked together at the Olympic Games and subsequently at the Governor's Latino Commission. Since Sara was also a fellow breast cancer survivor, she offered her support to Dia de la Mujer Latina since 1997. Sara loved her Latino community and wanted to do everything possible to empower them. What saddens me more is that her most passionate wish was for Fidel Castro to step down; ironically he finally did-- one day after her passing. I hope the Latino Commmission would consider a request to the Governor to name a street after Sara-- a beloved friend and champion of all Georgians.
Dia de la Mujer Latina, Inc (DML) CEO Venus Ginés Announces its New Name and New Headquarters
ATLANTA, November 13, 2007 -- After 10 years of providing culturally and linguistically proficient health promotion with its signature health fiestas and culturally-designed cancer education and disease preventive programs in Atlanta, founder and CEO Venus Ginés, announced today that the Board of Directors voted to change its name to National Dia de la Mujer Latina and to move its headquarters to Houston, Texas as of January 2008. Learn more.
Why Many Latinas Don't Participate in Clinical Trials. By Venus Ginés
2007 -- Published in EDICT, Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials.
Latino versus Hispanic: What are the historical roots behind the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino"?
2007 -- It is difficult to make assumptions about Latinos since they represent a mix of racial and ethnic lines from 22 different countries of origin. This specific population has unique demographic characteristics and degrees of acculturation in addition to differences in history and cultural background. The terms Hispanic or Latino, used by many to classify the culture continues to be a source of contention because the former implies a connection to ancient Spain and its language while the latter represents a nationality, that of Latin America. The category term of Hispanic was first used in the l980 Census and caused uproar among Latinos in the Southwest, Chicago and New. Learn more.
