Our Mission
Our four locations cover South Florida’s Miami-Dade and Broward counties, offering both appointment and walk-in service including HIV rapid testing, PrEP and PEP enrollment and initiation, STD screening and treatment, Ryan White case management, health insurance and patient assistance program navigation, ACA health insurance premium support, health and culture event programming, Pride Scholarships, and DiversiSafe risk reduction counseling. Our on-site Wellness Clinics provide treatment for HIV, hepatitis, diabetes, hypertension, and more, as well as vaccinations.
Each year, Latinos Salud provides over 24,000 HIV tests 34,000 STD screenings each year, treats 3,000 clients for STDs, initiates 2,000 patients on PrEP and maintains another 2,000 on PrEP, vaccinates 1,000 people, treats 300 community members with HIV, stages over 100 health & culture events, conducts 200 late night mobile shifts and distributes 225,000 condoms.
About Us
Latinos Salud was founded in 2008 to create a safe space for Latino gay guys and their partners to find friends, support and resources.
Our diverse staff hail from:
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Venezuela
All of our program staff members are bilingual, and all are certified test counselors, in addition to facilitating other specific programs.
Board of Directors
2025-2026
Chair — Franco Chevalier, MD
Co-Chair — Saul Diaz, ARNP
Treasurer — Jose Manuel Valencia Rivera
Secretary — Jose Ramos
Member — Mariano Kanamori, Ph.D.
Member — Sam Angarita
Member — Victor Gimenez
Founding Executive Director — Stephen Fallon, PhD
Co-Founding Member — Rafaelé Narváez
We strive to provide client-centered, culturally-competent health education and integrated preventive, screening, and healthcare services throughout South Florida in order to reduce the burden of communicable diseases and improve health outcomes.
“Salud” means health, but our locations feel anything but clinical. From the moment you enter, you’re treated like family. Our welcoming “living rooms” are used for cultural events, peer-led activities, and opportunities for making new friends, as well as for introductions to our health education and screening services.
