Tag: World AIDS Day
Philadelphia stands to advance research towards a cure for HIV
Thirty-five years after the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we have extremely effective treatments enabling people with HIV/AIDS to live a normal life. Yet,...
PrEP Providers
Albert Einstein Medical Center Immunodeficiency Center Einstein Healthcare Network 5501 Old York Road, Paley 1 Phila., PA 19141 215-456-3465 Children’s Hospital...
Legal rights don’t change after HIV diagnosis
Discrimination against people with HIV is illegal under federal, state and local laws. Sadly, despite 40 years of scientific-research progress, we still need...
Six honored for HIV/AIDS work at Red Ribbon Awards
The Penn Center for AIDS Research (Penn CFAR) will honor six people at the 13th-annual Red Ribbon Awards Dec. 1 for their work on...
The dangerous drink of youth
Imagine being 24 years old again, old enough to fully live and young enough not to care. Remember what it was like the first...
Mazzoni evolves with HIV/AIDS epidemic
Mazzoni Center was the first AIDS service organization in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the fourth in the United States. Our agency was founded...
The Philadelphia Linkage Program: A success story
Among the outstanding medical-case management programs at ActionAIDS is the Prison Linkage Program. This program serves individuals living with HIV while incarcerated and through...
HIV is not a crime
In the more than 30 years since the first report of HIV, medical treatment has transformed the disease, enabling people with HIV to live...
Client spotlights
Keith: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Fear of disclosing HIV status is one of the primary barriers for our...
Case management as a bridge from incarceration to the community
The Philadelphia Linkage Program is a foundation element of what has been built over a number of years between the Philadelphia Prison System and...
Day in the Life of: a prison case manager
The variety of challenges and responsibilities of being a jail case manager with the Philadelphia Linkage Program make it difficult to describe a “typical...
Overcoming housing barriers after incarceration
Returning citizens face many barriers when they are released from jail. Many did not have a stable source of income when they were arrested...
Glass half-full
My work with individuals who are impacted with HIV has spanned many years. In the early 1990s, at the beginning of my career as...
Philadelphia HIV-testing sites
Take the opportunity this World AIDS Day to know your status by getting tested at one of these organizations: Center...
World AIDS Day 2015 events
AIDS Memorial Quilt displays Sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at various locations throughout the city with descriptions of the...
ActionAIDS teams up to improve client health
In an innovative project that will increase access to health care for our clients, ActionAIDS will team with the Family Practice and Counseling Network...
De-stress during the holidays
We are right in the middle of the holiday season and instead of feelings of joy and good tidings, you might be feeling down,...
Examining the science, perceptions of PrEP
You may have heard the word “PrEP” floating around in conversation lately. You heard it is a drug that can “prevent HIV,” but you’re...
Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free generation
Just a little over a year ago, the ActionAIDS board of directors amended our mission statement to explicitly include our commitment to “creating an...
Prison to community re-entry, with the addition of health-care coverage
In this article, we share information about important work being done by the Pennsylvania Health Law Project to expand access to health care for...
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