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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Perspectives: Treatment as Prevention
The development of effective, well-tolerated antiretroviral therapies has not only revolutionized the medical treatment of people living with HIV, it has also begun to transform the world of HIV prevention. This issue of Perspectives examines some of this evidence, as well as some of the …
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