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Dr Nancy Jasso a California Hispanic American who is the chief of dermatology at Kaiser Permanente and volunteers her time removing tattoos from young gang members

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Minority Women s Health > Hispanic American Latinas > HIV AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus HIV is the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS HIV weakens your immune system which makes it hard for your body to fight off other

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that many Mexicans are college graduates who come to the U S for professional employment and many have sophisticated world views and understanding of health In all the above patterns and variations on these patterns it is common to travel back and forth from the U S to Mexico at least yearly and sometimes monthly It is not

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Agency CIA 1998 There are approximately 6 million undocumented Mexicans living in the United States and about 1 6 of these are under age 18 years Pew Hispanic Center 2005 There are of course differences among individuals in any population and differences among populations within cultures Differences may be due to personal differences and

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Maria Isabel Herran M D Photograph courtesy of Dr Isabel Herran

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Emily Dunning Barringer M D Photo courtesy of Gouverneur Health Services New York NY

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Dr Leigh Ann Curl a Maryland native who is the team orthopedic surgeon for the Baltimore Ravens She is the first and only woman to be a team physician with the NFL

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Dr Jane Henney an Indiana native who was the first woman commissioner of the U S Food and Drug Administration

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Margaret Hamburg M D Photograph courtesy of Dr Margaret Hamburg

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Dr Barbara Ross Lee a Detroit native who became the first woman of color to lead a U S medical school Changing the Face of Medicine honors the lives and achievements of American women in medicine

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Sharon M Malotte M D Photo credit d Joyce Bismark

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Dr Antonia Novello a pediatrician and native Puerto Rican who became the first woman and first Hispanic to become Surgeon General of the United States

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Dr Marcella Farinelli Fierro a Virginia native who became chief medical examiner of Virginia the state s highest position in forensic science Her skill inspired mystery writer Patricia Cornwell to write her

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