Just Diagnosed
Post date: Apr 15, 2015 3:54:42 AM
Resources
Resources
Everyone is impacted by HIV/AIDS – here you’ll find the resources you need to learn more about the disease, and help yourself, your family and your friends
Just Diagnosed?
- How Do I Start?
- Day One: After you have tested positive
- Testing HIV Positive — Do I Have AIDS?
- Living with HIV/AIDS
HIV and Domestic Violence
- Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence Fact Sheet
- Safe Horizon’s Safety Plan Guide
- Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS
- The Well Project—Domestic Violence and HIV
HIV and Drug Use
- I Inject drugs, what can I do to keep myself from getting infected?
- I use crack (or other stimulants), what can I do to keep myself from getting infected?
- Reducing the risk of getting HIV from injecting drug use
HIV and Incarceration
HIV Policy
- AIDS Action Women and HIV Policy Facts
- The AIDS Institute
- National Minority AIDS Council
- DC Fights Back
- AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
- The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
- Kaiser Family Foundation HIV/AIDS Policy Fact Sheet
- Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project: CHAMP
HIV Medication
Adherence
HIV and Youth
- Whitman-Walker Clinic HIV/AIDS and Youth Fact Sheet
- Advocates for Youth Adolescents and HIV/AIDS Fact Sheet
- Serving HIV Positive Youth
HIV and Women
- Women’s Health: Women and HIV
- Black Women Taking Charge in the Fight Against HIV
- CDC’s Fact Sheet about Women and HIV/AIDS
- Whitman-Walker Clinic Fact Sheet on Women and HIV/AIDS
- Advocates for Youth: Young African American Women and HIV
- Advocates for Youth: Young Women of Color and the HIV Epidemic
- The Women’s Collective, Washington, DC
- Sister Love in Atlanta, Georgia
- Women Alive in Los Angeles, California
- Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Disease: WORLD Oakland, California
HIV and African Americans
- AVERT’s HIV and African Americans
- CDC’s HIV/AIDS and African Americans
- Fighting HIV among African Americans
- The Body’s: How Is HIV Different in African Americans?
HIV Prevention
HIV Biomedical Research
HIV Organizations
Washington
- Whitman-Walker Clinic
- MetroTeen AIDS
- Women’s Collective
- Sasha Bruce
- Planned Parenthood of Metro Washington, DC
- Unity Health Care
- SMYAL
- Our Place DC
- La Clinica del Pueblo
- Covenant House Washington
DC’s Department of Health Directory of HIV and AIDS services in the District National
Hotlines
CDC National AIDS Hotline
1-800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636)
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Línea Nacional del SIDA de los CDC
1-800-232-4636
24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana
CDC National AIDS Hotline TTY for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
1-800-232-6348
Monday - Friday, 10am-10pm EST
National Suicide Prevention Life-Line
1-800-273-TALK
24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week
Access Help Line (Mental Health)
1-888-793-4357
24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week
DC Rape Crisis
202-333-7273
24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week
TTY: 202-328-1371
Available Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive (HIPS)
1-800-676-4477
24 Hours a day, 7 Days a week