No wonder Men's Health gave Kansas City a D- for STDs. Jackson County has a higher rate of AIDS and HIV than most of the country. Jackson County's rate of AIDS is bigger than 81.6 percent of the counties in the nation. JaCo also has a higher rate of HIV than 92.5 percent of the country. That's what Danny O'Farrell of the National HIV/AIDS Atlas told KSHB Channel 41. The National HIV/AIDS Atlas charts AIDS and HIV rates by age, gender and
race/ethnicity in every county in the country. JaCo
Camp KC has a cool story about local radio personality and HIV/AIDS outreach worker Mario Canedo organizing the metro's first Latino Gay Pride event Saturday, Sept. 12, in Hyde Park. The free event is scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 7 pm. and feature soccer and volleyball, music, and discussions and education on LGBT issues. If you have a chance, you should check it out.
I wrote a profile of Canedo for this year's Sex Issue. Besides talking about adult issues on his La Super X radio s