Latino HIV/AIDS awareness



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There are more than 200,000 HIV-positive Latinos in the United States; that is twenty-percent of the HIV-positive population. Thursday was National Latino AIDS Awareness Day. A coalition of healthcare providers and Latino community groups gathered in Los Angeles to promote HIV-AIDS awareness. Alaena Hostetter of Annenberg Radio News has the story.

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD)

Samoan community in Los Angeles comes together.



Indonesia and two South Pacific countries are still trying to recover from deadly earthquakes this week. Indonesia was hit by a strong quake yesterday that killed at least a thousand people. Samoa and American Samoa also suffered a tsunami. Alena Hostetter of Annenberg Radio News reports on how the Samoan community in Carson has come together to help friends and relatives back home

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