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Michael Callen-Audre Lorde Community Health Center
356 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212.271.7200
www.callen-lorde.org
The Michael Callen-Audre Lorde Community Health Center is New York's only medical facility geared primarily to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, including those with HIV/AIDS. Callen-Lorde provides quality, sensitive, and respectful health care to all who seek our services, regardless of sexual orientation or ability to pay. Since opening the doors of our new facility in March 1998, Callen-Lorde has provided over 50,000 medical and mental health visits. Callen-Lorde has been providing direct medical care for people with HIV/AIDS since the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and is a crucial link in the network of care for people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City. Callen-Lorde's HIV/AIDS services include the full spectrum of medical and mental health services, peer counseling, HIV support groups, treatment education and support, clinical trial referrals, and our state-of-the-art Health Education Resource Center. Callen-Lorde also provides HIV prevention education and HIV counseling and testing services to dozens of patients each month. During 1999, Callen-Lorde saw over 500 active patients with HIV/AIDS, for a total of 2,300 patient visits. We are now seeing a staggering increase in patients newly diagnosed with HIV -- nearly 30 new patients each month! Many of our patients have no insurance coverage, and Callen-Lorde covers their health care expenses until we can assist them in qualifying for government support (Medicaid, ADAP, etc.).
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Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center
One Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014
Tel: 212.620.7310
www.gaycenter.org
From the first day the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center opened its doors in 1983, AIDS has defined the Center's purpose, has ignited the Center's passion and has shaped the Center's activism profoundly. The Center has been on the cutting edge of responding to the AIDS epidemic ever since. The Center's HIV/AIDS-related programs include Project Connect, the first alcohol and drug prevention and counseling program in New York State to serve the gay community and address the correlation between substance abuse and increased risk for HIV/AIDS; Youth Enrichment Services for lesbian and gay youth, who remain today one of the highest risk age groups in the community for new HIV infections; CenterBridge, specifically developed to offer counseling, support and caring for all who have lost, or who have been afraid of losing lovers, family members, co-workers and friends to AIDS; Project Resolve, the Center's Mediation Services program; and the Gender Identity Project, serving the unique HIV-related needs of transgender men and women.
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Fenway Community Health
7 Haviland Street
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617.267.0900
www.fenwayhealth.org
The mission of Fenway Community Health is to provide compassionate, affordable, quality health care to the lesbian and gay community of New England and to residents of the Fenway neighborhood and surrounding community. Last year alone, Fenway provided nearly 55,000 patient visits. Fenway Community Health offers a nationally-acclaimed model of comprehensive HIV care to more than 1,100 individuals with HIV/AIDS. A person testing positive for HIV receives immediate, comprehensive evaluation and assessment that results in a treatment plan tailored to their individual needs. In addition to medical and health services, Fenway provides out-patient substance abuse counseling and detox services, holistic health services, psychiatric and neuropsychological evaluation and treatment, laboratory services, and nutritional counseling. When hospital care is required, Fenway's physicians admit to Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. What makes Fenway truly unique is its ongoing commitment to AIDS research. Fenway was the first clinic in the nation to initiate community-based HIV research contributing to the growing body of scientific knowledge about transmission of HIV. Since studies were first begun in 1985, Fenway has amassed a serum bank of 40,000 specimens that are accessed by AIDS researchers at academic and medical institutions such as Harvard Medical School.
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