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Friday, August 27th
9:30-11:30am
PreventionWorks!
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).
This 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:
Second 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:
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.
Second Wednesday of the Month
June 9th, 6-8pm
DC 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
