May 3: The Overlooked Battle Against Depression and Suicide Among SE Asian Americans | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…
Category: Health and Fitness
APAIT’s Access to Status: Donate to create a mobile #HIV testing unit to serve #AAPI & other underserved communities!
The rate of new HIV diagnoses is high within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community: one of the few racial…
Senate (finally) confirms Vivek Murthy, country’s first South Asian American Surgeon General
It only took the US Senate 13 months. Dr. Vivek Murthy was nominated by the Obama Administration in November 2013…
10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know about HIV/AIDS in Asia | #WorldAIDSDay
Today is World AIDS Day, a day to raise awareness about the global fight to end new HIV infections and…
Help Hyphen make an important magazine issue on AAPI health go to print! | #APIHealthTalk
Hyphen Magazine, the nation’s premiere Asian American magazine needs your help to help fund their next print issue, which will…
26-year-old nurse Nina Pham confirmed as first case of US-transmitted Ebola
Last week, Thomas Eric Duncan — a Texas man who contracted Ebola while travelling overseas — died, becoming the first…
George Takei treated for skin cancer, and AAPI should take notice
Last Saturday, legendary Star Trek actor and activist George Takei arrived at a charity event with a bandage on his face,…
LA hosts free API Hope & Recovery Conference for #AAPI #MentalHealth clients, family & caregivers
On October 29th of this year, the Los Angeles County’s Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) is sponsoring the 9th Annual…
World Suicide Prevention Day: Asian American & Pacific Islander #MentalHealthMatters | #WSPD14
Today is September 10th, and it is World Suicide Prevention Day, part of this week’s National Suicide Prevention Week. On this…
LA play explores mother-daughter relationships & stigma of mental illness among AAPI
Artists at Play is a relatively new Asian American theatre collective in Los Angeles, and they are proud to announce…
Obama advisor & director of WH Initiative on #AAPI shares family history of mental illness | #MentalHealth
The statistics on mental health in the Asian American community are staggering, if well-known to regular readers of this blog: Asian…
LGBTQ Native/Pacific Islander youths (aged 13-18) most likely to self-harm, attempt suicide
A new study published two months ago in the American Journal of Public Health delves for the first time into the…