HIV/AIDS Working Group at The Center

Age Is Not A Condom!

2012-06-01T17:10:08Z

ACRIA launches HIV & Older Adults Social Messaging Campaign:
Age Is Not A Condom!

The HIV & Older Adults Social Messaging Campaign was created by the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA). It includes a Facebook Page, a website and posters on bus shelters throughout New York City. The campaign oficially starts on Monday, June 4th 2012.

Click here to visit the Facebook page: Age is not a condom.

Make sure to click the "Like" button and let ACRIA know what you think!

You can also visit the website and have your clients share their own stories!

For more information, please email ACRIA at lscaccabarrozzi@acria.org.

ACRIA is a not-for-profit community-based AIDS research, HIV prevention and treatment education center. ACRIA conducts research geared towards the further understanding of HIV disease, treatment, and prevention and provides education about treatments and research to the communities affected by HIV.

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Say Hello to the new HIV Program Intern!

2012-05-29T19:46:21Z

Hello everyone!

My name is Andrew Delollo and I will be the HIV Program Intern at the DC Center for the summer of 2012! I am currently a graduate student at Ohio University studying International Development Studies, with a focus on health and development. I have a Bachelors of Arts in International Studies, with a Certificate in African Studies. I have volunteered and worked abroad in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania; primarily working with health organizations focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness. This internship is a great way for me learn and build experience around HIV prevention and awareness within the LGBT community in the United States. If you have any questions for me, or would like to know more about the HIV Working Group at the DC Center, please feel free to contact me at andrew@thedccenter.org

March on Washington Keep the Promise on AIDS 2012 Event

2012-05-29T16:05:51Z

March on Washington Keep the Promise on AIDS 2012 Event
Sunday, July 22, 2012
12:00pm until 2:00pm

The "Keep the Promise" March and Rally will bring together thousands of AIDS advocates in the heart of Washington, DC prior to the opening of the 2012 International AIDS Conference with the aim of reminding world leaders and policy makers that the AIDS epidemic remains a global threat to public health.

Without more resources for treatment, care, prevention and cost-effective interventions, progress achieved over the past 30 years of combating AIDS could be lost.

The "Keep the Promise" March seeks to refocus public attention on the lack of access to HIV testing, treatment and prevention; wavering political commitment to funding the global AIDS response and excessive AIDS drug pricing by pharmaceutical companies.

While recent scientific discoveries show that treatment as prevention has the potential to one day end the AIDS epidemic, political will and financial resources must go hand-in-hand with science to make this vision a reality.

To sign on today go to http://www.keepthepromise2012.org/?page_id=1670

A Passion For Living

2012-05-29T16:05:49Z

Save The Date
Saturday October 13th, 2012

A PASSION FOR LIVING
Awards Reception

Us helping Us
People Into Living

What: A PASSION FOR LIVING

Why: To raise funds in support of our HIV/AIDS programs and services and to recognize members of the community for their commitment to fight the epidemic.

When: Saturday, October 13th, 6pm-9pm

Where: Arena Stage
1101 6th Street SW
Washington, DC 20024

Tickets: $125.00

Our Mission: The mission of Us Helping US, People Into Living, Inc, is to improve the health and well being of Black gay men through innovative programs and services and - through a vision of inclusiveness - to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS in the entire Black community.

June HIV Working Group Meeting

2012-05-24T18:55:10Z

The HIV Prevention Working Group will be having its usual monthly meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month in June on the 27th at 7PM. We will be discussing the loads of events we'll have had in June, such as our packing parties, HIV testing, and outreach at Town. We'll also be talking about the upcoming conferences in July: the Gay Men's Health Summit and the 2012 International AIDS Conference.

For more information about the HIV Prevention Working Group, check out fighthivindc.org. Or, find us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/fighthivindc, or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fighthivindc.

FUK!T at Town in June

2012-05-24T18:47:13Z

The HIV Prevention Working Group and the FUK!T campaign will be doing outreach at Town (2009 8th ST NW) twice in June, once on the 8th and again on the 22nd, both nights from 6:30PM to 8:30PM!

We will be handing out FUK!Ts and talking to people about the HIV Program at The DC Center and the HIV Prevention Working Group. If you'd like to volunteer, or know more about the HIV Prevention Working Group, come out to our monthly meeting on June 27th at The DC Center, and visit our website at fighthivindc.org.

To volunteer, please contact brant@thedccenter.org.

Find us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/fighthivindc or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fighthivindc.

FUK!T Packing Parties in June

2012-05-24T18:27:04Z

Every week at Green Lantern (1335 Green Court NW), The DC Center's and HIV Prevention Working Group's volunteers come out from 7PM to 9PM to pack safer sex kits.

These packing parties are on Tuesdays, and in June are on the 5th, 12th, 19th (with Stonewall Kickball), and 26th (with Dignity).

You too can fight HIV in DC by volunteering your time to this effort! Enjoy happy hour specials, meet new people, and find out more about the HIV Prevention Working Group and the FUK!T campaign. All this while helping your community!

So, come out and join us at Green Lantern to help put together safer sex kits to be distributed at LGBT spaces in DC, including Town, JR's, Cobalt, Green Lantern, and The DC Center.

To learn more about the HIV Working Group find us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/fighthivindc or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fighthivindc.

Second-Saturday Free HIV Testing June 9th

2012-05-21T17:48:54Z

On Saturday, June 9th from 10AM to 12:30PM, there will be free and fast HIV testing at The DC Center (1318 U St. NW). Please note the time change, as the Pride Parade will be Saturday afternoon, so in June, testing will be in the morning.

At The DC Center, you can find out more about the HIV Prevention Working Group, get your HIV test results in 20 minutes, and pick up some free safer sex kits, dental dams, or female condoms.

Be sure to thank the HIV Prevention Working Group, The DC Center, Department of Health, as well as Whitman-Walker Health for this wonderful resource to our community!

Faith Based Town Hall for AIDS 2012

2012-05-15T18:25:00Z

Are you interested in the International AIDS Conference/AIDS 2012? Did you know that it's happening right here in Washington, DC? Want to find out more about this extraordinary event and how you can be a part of it? On May 31st 2012 The DC Community Coalition's faith based work group will host a Faith Based Town Hall at The Westminster Presbyterian Church (400 I Street SW. Washington, DC 20024). There will be representatives from AIDS 2012 to answer questions about Interfaith Worship Service, The Interfaith Pre-Conference, and of course AIDS 2012. The doors open at 6:30pm with lite refreshments and a meet and greet. The program will begin promptly at 7pm.

Don't miss this great opportunity to meet fellow worshipers as well as get some great information about this historic event happening in our city. For more information please visit dccaids2012.org

Stonewall Kickball Continues to Help Fight HIV in DC!

2012-05-10T19:46:04Z

The kickball season continues here in DC, with the Sunday league's play-off games in less than two weeks and our local LGBT kickball league, Stonewall Kickball, is taking time away from practice and games to continue to help the FUK!T campaign fight HIV in DC!

Last month, the Stonewall Kickball Packing Party set records for 2012, with the highest volunteer turnout and the most safer sex kits packed in one night!

The FUK!T campaign's weekly packing parties are Tuesdays from 7PM to 9PM at Green Lantern (1335 Green CT NW). At our May 15th packing party, we invite all members of Stonewall Kickball (plus friends and family, of course) to join us at Green Lantern to help put together safer sex kits to be distributed at LGBT spaces in DC, including Town, JR's, Cobalt, Green Lantern, and The DC Center.

To learn more about the HIV Working Group find us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/fighthivindc or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fighthivindc.

Join Our AIDS Walk 2012 Team

2012-05-02T18:50:02Z

AIDS Walk Washington's 2012 walk will be October 27th. Last year's walk was wildly successful, and this year is looking to be just as, if not more!

The HIV Prevention Working Group is happy to again be a Community Partner with Whitman-Walker Health for this event, and we'd love it if you would join our team!

As a Community Partner, half of the money we raise will go to The HIV Prevention Working Group, and the other half to Whitman-Walker Health. This is a great opportunity for you to support two organizations that serve our community.

To sign up for our team, visit our AIDS Walk Washington Page. If you'd just like to make a donation, click here.

Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding the AIDS Memorial Quilt

2012-04-26T21:07:53Z

The 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the AIDS Memorial Quilt with the program "Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt." The program will use The Quilt as its anchor to explore the community crafts and performances that developed during the past 30 years in response to the devastating effects of HIV and AIDS. The program will celebrate The Quilt's artistry, and Festival visitors can learn about innovative and resourceful ways communities educate and cope with one of the most complex epidemics in modern history. "Creativity and Crisis: Unfolding The AIDS Memorial Quilt" is produced in partnership with The Names Project Foundation.

The Festival will be held Wednesday, June 27, through Sunday, July 1, and Wednesday,
July 4, through Sunday, July 8, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. All events are free. Festival hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day with special evening events such as concerts and dance parties beginning at 6 p.m. The Festival is co-sponsored by the National Park Service.

At the Festival, visitors will have the opportunity to help make panels that will be incorporated into The Quilt, to tell their own stories and to take part in rituals such as the reading of names and using the "lotus fold" to display and pack The Quilt each day. The program will feature performances by artists in the theater, design and music industries who have been affected by HIV and AIDS. Festival visitors also will see how people are using traditional knowledge, skills and expression to create vibrant AIDS-themed art to raise awareness about the disease. Fore more information, please visit the Smithsonian Folklife Festival website.

FUK!T Outreach at Stonewall Kickball All-Stars Game

2012-04-26T16:48:09Z

The Stonewall Kickball All-Stars Game is Saturday, May the 5th, and the HIV Prevention Working Group will be there doing outreach from 2PM to 5PM. We'll be at Stead Park (17th and P Streets, NW) talking to people about the group, handing out safer sex kits, and enjoying the weather and awesome game! AIDS Healthcare Foundation will also be there with us doing testing in their mobile unit.

If you'd like to volunteer with the HIV Prevention Working Group and FUK!T campaign for this event, please contact brant@thedccenter.org.

May HIV Prevention Working Group Meeting and Packing Party

2012-04-26T16:12:29Z

The HIV Prevention Working Group will be having its usual monthly meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month in May on the 23rd at 7PM. We will be discussing the loads of events we'll have had in May, such as our packing parties, HIV testing, and outreach at Town. We'll also be talking about the following weeks' Pride events, like Black Pride, Latino Pride, and Capital Pride.

In addition, on May 16th, the HIV Prevention Working Group will kick off it's first monthly packing party at The DC Center, which will be every third Wednesday of the month, the week before the monthly meeting.

For more information about the HIV Prevention Working Group, check out fighthivindc.org. Or, find us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/fighthivindc, or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fighthivindc.

Forum on the Current State of HIV/AIDS - July 24

2012-04-24T20:02:51Z

From Whitman-Walker Health: Whitman-Walker Health to Hold HIV/AIDS Forum at Site of DC's First AIDS Forum in 1983

"Return to Lisner" on July 24 to Coincide with International AIDS Conference

Update: Gay Men's Health Crisis has joined as a Community Co-Sponsor.

Washington, DC - Whitman-Walker Health will host a forum on the current state of HIV/AIDS on Tuesday, July 24, at Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St., NW, at 7:00 pm. "Return to Lisner" will be held in the same venue as DC's first HIV/AIDS forum on April 4, 1983. That first forum was also hosted by Whitman-Walker. The forum is free admission, but registration is required at www.whitman-walker.org/returntolisner.

"Return to Lisner" will feature keynote speaker Jeanne White-Grinder, mother of Ryan White; a panel including Regan Hofmann, Editor in Chief of POZ magazine, Jose Zuniga, President of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, Adam Tenner, Executive Director of Metro Teen AIDS, Robert Redfield, Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of the HIV program of the University of Maryland, and Phill Wilson, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute; JoAnne Keatley, Director of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the University of California-San Francisco; and a special performance by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington.

"We have come a long way in the last 29 years," said Whitman-Walker Executive Director Don Blanchon. "At that first forum in 1983, a community that was under siege and scared came to hear what little information there was on this new epidemic. Today, we face a much brighter future than we could have imagined then. Medical advances continue to enable people living with HIV to live longer, healthier lives. Recent breakthroughs have even led some to say that the 'end of HIV' is somewhere in sight. This forum will look at where we stand today with HIV and what the future of the epidemic looks like. It will be an interesting, exciting and moving event."

Whitman-Walker will host the event along with community co-sponsors The DC Center, Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), Metro Teen AIDS, The National Coalition for LGBT Health, Mautner Project and the Human Rights Campaign.

Established in 1978, Whitman-Walker Health is a non-profit community health center located in Washington, DC. Our mission is to be the highest quality, culturally competent community health center serving greater Washington's diverse urban community, including individuals who face barriers to accessing care, and with a special expertise in LGBT and HIV care. Whitman-Walker Health offers primary medical and dental care; mental health and addictions counseling and treatment; HIV education, prevention, and testing; legal services; and medical adherence care management. We are especially committed to meeting the health needs of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and people living with HIV/AIDS.