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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 and Incarcerated Women
• HIV Transmission and Prevention in Prisons
• Our Place, DC

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

• Graphic Novel about HIV Medication
• A Guide to the Ins and Outs of Antiviral Dosing

Adherence

• Recommended Immunizations for HIV positive people
• Graphic Novel about 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

• Kaiser Family Foundation’s Proven HIV Prevention Strategies

HIV Biomedical Research

• Be The Generation

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

• The Body
• Black AIDS Institute
• The Well Project
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• AmfAR
• TruthAID