Guest guest Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Hi, I work for Philadelphia FIGHT (Field Initiating Group for HIV Trials),We are an AIDS Service Organization in Philadelphia created in 1991 as a research group investigating HIV vaccines. I'm administrative assistant for FIGHT and senior peer educator for the Lax Treatment Center, our HIV specific clinic, which serves over 1600 hiv positive clients yearly. Our education department is called Project TEACH (Treatment Education Advocates Combatting HIV). We have been offering an eight week program for all HIV positive people since 1994. TEACH is a nationally recognized program created for and primarily by HIV positive people (including many MSM) to educate them selves about HIV. The program teaches HIV positive people how to have HIV live with them, rather than die from HIV/AIDS. The program includes learning how the virus works, treatment options, being an educated health care consumer-reading and understanding lab reports, communicating with health care providers, HIV/AIDS activism against stigma and discrimination and many other issues surrounding HIV. Our staff instructors are joined by many local HIV experts to give this information to our students. We also offer Project TEACH Outside, a five week TEACH preparatory class for HIV positive people who have a history of incarceration. We recently reinstituted Frontline TEACH, a five week program for HIV negative people- primarily caregivers, but open to everyone HIV negative. The AIDS Library is probably the largest non-university held source for HIV information in the U.S. The Critical Path Project, now a part of the Library, provides free internet access, email and websites to individuals and non-profit organizations locally, nationally and globally. The Baldwin Clinic at FIGHT provides psychological counseling and supervises our Case Managment and Care Outreach Services. The Youth Health Empowerment Project (YHEP) provides HIV testing, safer sex education, counseling, computer access ,food ,showers, clothing and a safe place weekdays for at risk youth both HIV positive and negative in the greater Philadelphia region. I sincerely hope that Brother2Brother carries on the mission and grows as FIGHT has to " save our own lives " . Bert Pannapacker Admin. Asst. Philadelphia FIGHT ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Hi, I work for Philadelphia FIGHT (Field Initiating Group for HIV Trials),We are an AIDS Service Organization in Philadelphia created in 1991 as a research group investigating HIV vaccines. I'm administrative assistant for FIGHT and senior peer educator for the Lax Treatment Center, our HIV specific clinic, which serves over 1600 hiv positive clients yearly. Our education department is called Project TEACH (Treatment Education Advocates Combatting HIV). We have been offering an eight week program for all HIV positive people since 1994. TEACH is a nationally recognized program created for and primarily by HIV positive people (including many MSM) to educate them selves about HIV. The program teaches HIV positive people how to have HIV live with them, rather than die from HIV/AIDS. The program includes learning how the virus works, treatment options, being an educated health care consumer-reading and understanding lab reports, communicating with health care providers, HIV/AIDS activism against stigma and discrimination and many other issues surrounding HIV. Our staff instructors are joined by many local HIV experts to give this information to our students. We also offer Project TEACH Outside, a five week TEACH preparatory class for HIV positive people who have a history of incarceration. We recently reinstituted Frontline TEACH, a five week program for HIV negative people- primarily caregivers, but open to everyone HIV negative. The AIDS Library is probably the largest non-university held source for HIV information in the U.S. The Critical Path Project, now a part of the Library, provides free internet access, email and websites to individuals and non-profit organizations locally, nationally and globally. The Baldwin Clinic at FIGHT provides psychological counseling and supervises our Case Managment and Care Outreach Services. The Youth Health Empowerment Project (YHEP) provides HIV testing, safer sex education, counseling, computer access ,food ,showers, clothing and a safe place weekdays for at risk youth both HIV positive and negative in the greater Philadelphia region. I sincerely hope that Brother2Brother carries on the mission and grows as FIGHT has to " save our own lives " . Bert Pannapacker Admin. Asst. Philadelphia FIGHT ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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