Events & Services: Partners Testing Together at AHP
You’ve been seeing someone new for a month. You really think he’s someone you could have a future with. In the past, if you met a guy you liked, you would make sure he had tested recently, and each of you would go get a …
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Marla’s Story
In 1988, Marla gave friends a ride to AHP so they could get tested for HIV. On a whim, as she waited for her friends, Marla decided to get tested too. Two weeks later, she learned she tested positive. She was shocked. Over the next …
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Art and Healing: Claudia Figallo’s Creative Arts Group
AHP’s Creative Arts Group gives clients a space to explore their relationship with drugs through drawing, writing, images, movement, and music. Claudia Figallo, a counselor and case manager with the AIDS and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP), developed this innovative program, which lasts eight weeks and …
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C O N N E C T I O N S
A Summer To Love Two important victories for the LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS communities have given all of us a lot to celebrate this summer. First, the Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Prop 8 took big steps towards removing institutional barriers to equality for LGBTQ people. …
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Perspectives: Rapid Hep C Testing
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common chronic blood-borne infection in the United States. Approximately 3.2 million Americans, including an estimated half million people in California, are living with chronic hepatitis C infection. Chronic HCV infection can lead to liver disease, liver cancer, and …
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Events & Services
Now available! You can download a PDF of our quarterly newsletter Events & Services, with all the latest information about support groups and special programs.
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