An AIDS Benefit
An AIDS Benefit
Providing a full range of HIV/AIDS health, social, legal,
and vocational services to DC residents who live east of the Anacostia River. Named after the nationally
renowned African-American network news anchor, Max Robinson, who died from AIDS, the center
provides the following services: primary medical and dental care, HIV
antibody testing and counseling, day treatment, AIDS support services, mental health, legal services, and
case management.
Ensuring that teens and their families receive vital appropriate and accessible services, including HIV prevention,
health care, and counseling. The organization has provided educational programs and resources to over 180,000 young
people and their families in Washington and throughout the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. While the area’s
adolescent HIV/AIDS rate remains the highest in the nation, Metro TeenAIDS is dedicated to stemming the
tide, and ensuring a healthy future for our youth.
Project CHAMP (Children with HIV and AIDS Model
Program) is one of the largest providers of direct support services to
HIV-infected children and their families in the Washington metro area. Short-term respite care-providers attend
to the children, while parents and caregivers take a well-deserved break, addressing their own health care needs,
or running errands. Long-term respite care buddies-assigned to one family-take children on afternoon
outings to the park, zoo, or other recreational places. Special events,
such as picnics, Halloween parties, and horseback riding are also held
to support the entire family.
Providing needle exchange in the nation's
capital. In the city with the highest AIDS rate in the country, 40% or more of these cases can be traced to a dirty
syringe. Prevention Works' mission is to curb the spread of HIV, viral hepatitis and other blood-borne diseases among
injecting and other drug users, their sexual partners and newborn children.
Offering a caring, supportive ministry of prayer,
education, advocacy, and direct service to all HIV-infected persons in the national capital area.
The only Latino community-based free health clinic in DC that offers bilingual, bicultural, comprehensive care for
Latino immigrants living with HIV/AIDS in the DC metro area. La Clinica's program emphasizes the inclusion of
preventive medical services, health education, and patient advocacy as integral parts of their holistic and
comprehensive care.
Provides permanent supportive housing for 20 – 25 women living with HIV; secondary medical care; and social services addressing the client’s health, recovery, and independence.
A foster home of safety and love for abandoned HIV-infected infants with respite care, health care, and hospice care in Cape Town,
South Africa. As a registered Care Home (Place of Safety) with the AFM Executive Welfare Council and
the Christian-based AFM Abba Baby Care, Little Angels is home to up to 30 infants.
