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Thumbnail image for preventionworks (4).jpgFriday, August 27th

9:30-11:30am


 

PreventionWorks!
2501 Benning Rd NE

Come on by and learn about PreventionWorks! and the Center for Health Initiatives (formerly the Center for Minority Studies) and the services we offer! Breakfast will be served. For more information, please contact Willie Ringold (wringold@preventionworksdc.org).

 

 

AIDsRibbon.jpgThis week, the White House, through the Office of National AIDS Policy, has released a national HIV/AIDS Strategy and Implementation plan. The Vision for the Strategy states;

"The United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or socio-economic circumstances, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination."

The report then outlines three primary goals. "...1) reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV, 2) increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes for people living with HIV, and 3) reducing HIV-related health disparities." The report is also accompanied by an Implementation Plan that outlines the "measurable goals, timelines, and accountability mechanisms" that were promised by the President.

You can find the offical Stratgey and its Implementation Plan here.

You can watch a video of the the announcement and launch here at AIDS.gov.

Following is a list of articles about the report, labeled by news source:

ABC News

USA Today

New York Times

preventionworks (4).jpgSecond Wednesday of the Month
(July 14, August 11, September 8)
6-8pm

We will be having our monthly kit making night, listening to music and eating pizza while we  make male condom kits, female condom kits, and wound care kits.

The DC Department of Health will provide the following services:

  • Testing for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis
  • Shots for Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B

These services are free and no appointment is needed...just come on in!


If further information, please contact Mary Beth Levin (mlevin@preventionworksdc.org).

Prevention Works! is located at 2501 Benning Rd, NE.  We have our own parking lot which you are welcome to use.  The X2 bus stops on our block.

 


Thumbnail image for preventionworks (4).jpgSecond Wednesday of the Month

June 9th,  6-8pm

PreventionWorks!
2501 Benning Rd NE



We will be putting together male condom safer sex kits and our new female condom safer sex kits. Come put together some kits and pee in a cup (for Chlamydia and gonorrhea), get your blood drawn (for syphilis), and/or get immunized for Hep A and B.

Survival Forum: HIV/AIDS and Nutrition

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survivalforum3.gifDC Community AIDS Network and Alpha Drugs invite you to Survival Forum IX. Dr. Milton Mills will lecture on the relationship between nutrition and HIV/AIDS focusing on the special medical and nutritional requirements of HIV/AIDS Patients.

Survival Forum IX takes place Tuesday May 18th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at Hotel Palomar, 2121 P Street NW. Free dinner served.

Dr. Mills, a Stanford University schoolf of medicine graduate and Discovery Health Channel Spokesperson, practices outpatient clinic-based medicine in Northern Virginia and works as a critical care physician at Fairfax Hospital.

December 3rd: Hepatitis C And HIV Coinfection

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Alpha Drugs invites you to attend their Survival Forum VII: Hepatitis C and HIV Coinfection: Current Issues and Challenges to Treating HIV presented by Dr. Michael Pistole, Private Practice HIV/HCV Specialist.

Thursday December 3rd at the Hotel Palomar (The Phillips Ballroom) - 2121 P Street, NW DC. (202)448-1800. (1/2 block from the Dupont Circle Metro).

Free Admission/Dinner Served
Registration: 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Dinner/Lecture: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Sponsored by Alpha Drugs and DC Community AIDS Network (DC CAN) 1638 R Street, NW, Suite 230, Washington, DC 200009.

RSVP AND INFORMATION CONTACT: leigh@alphadrugs.com - (202)265-5757


 

"Beyond the Diagnosis" at Atlas Theater

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Atlas Theatre is presenting "Beyond the Diagnosis", a collection of short plays developled in collaboration with HIV-positive people living in the D.C. area. These plays reflect the passions and challenges that HIV-positive people, and the health professionals who treat them, face everyday.
Come join us on November 19th, 2009
 
Show starts at 7:30pm.  The Atlas Theater is located at 1333 H Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20002
 
To get there by Metro, take the Orange Line to Minnesota Ave or the Red Line to Gallery Place. Then hop on the FREE H Street Shuttle (Look for the passenger vans with green and white H Street NE logos). The shuttle runs from 5:00pm until the Metro closes.
For Reservations, call: 877-587-1701.



 

Fighting Tobacco Use Amongst People Living with HIV/AIDS

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On September 16 and 17, there will be a training, Treating Tobacco Dependence in the HIV/AIDS Community, for medical/health professionals who treat or provide care for people in DC.

Goals for participants of the training are: to be able to assess and treat smokers living with HIV/AIDS, be able to prescribe appropriate medications that will not interact with smoking, be able to discuss motivational techniques with HIV positive smokers, to understand the broader implications of tobacco use in the HIV/AIDS Community.

To register, please email Phoebe Robinson at probinson@aladc.org or call 202-546-5864 x226. Registration ends on August 31, 2009

Alpha Drugs Survival Forum VI

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Alpha Drugs invites you to the latest presentation in their Survival Forum Lecture Series: HIV Update: New Treatment Options with an Emphasis on HIV Prevention presented by Dr. Michael Pistole, HCV/HIV Specialist.

This event takes place Wednesday May 27,at the Hotel Palomar (The Phillips Balroom), 2121 P St NW Washington, DC. Free Admission. Dinner Served. Registration takes place from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM. The Lecture and Dinner takes place from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

Sponsored by alphadrugs and PROTOMEDS INTERNATIONAL LLC

RSVP and Information Contact: leigh@alphadrugs.com or 202.265-5757

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