Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Staff from the Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine’s Peter Krueger Clinic Care Coordination Program distributed giveaways and HIV information and provided HIV testing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
In honor of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1, the Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine teamed with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis to present “World AIDS Day: Focus on the Transgender Community” at Mount Sinai West. The event featured speaker Octavia Y. Lewis, MPA, Patient Services Manager, Community Healthcare Network, and a performance by Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris and the musical group Loose Cattle. Among other activities: information booths and HIV testing were available at Mount Sinai West and at the Peter Krueger Clinic at Mount Sinai Beth Israel; The Mount Sinai Hospital distributed literature on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), and other HIV-related material; and the Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program-Downtown conducted additional HIV testing.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Under blue skies, 80 staff members, families, and friends from the Institute for Advanced Medicine and the Mount Sinai Health System HIV service line participated in the 30th Annual 10K AIDS Walk New York in Central Park on Sunday, May 17.
The Mount Sinai team raised $7,226 to help support HIV/AIDS services, treatment, and research, and joined 40 other tri-state-area AIDS service organizations in the walk. Since its founding, AIDS Walk New York has drawn nearly 890,000 participants and raised more than $139 million.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
The Mount Sinai Health System’s Institute for Advanced Medicine sponsored several activities to commemorate World AIDS Day, Monday, December 1. The events included educational presentations, the distribution of AIDS ribbons, and rapid HIV-testing. Among the highlights: (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | HIV AIDS, LGBT Health, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Women's Health
Each year since 1988, December 1 has been designated as World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization and UNAIDS proposed this day as a time to focus on HIV prevention and treatment efforts, bring communities together for support and solidarity, and specifically recognize and remember those affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Oct 13, 2014 | Health Tips, LGBT Health, Sexual Health
The HIV prevention landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years. In the past, most health care professionals could only support consistent use of condoms, frequent testing, and risk-reduction counseling for HIV prevention. Today, these approaches can be used in conjunction with new methods that have been developed and are now available to the public to lower risk of HIV infection. (more…)