AIDS Service Center NYC
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AIDS Service Center NYC is a non-profit community organization whose programs include peer education and training, harm reduction, specialized women’s services, HIV
counseling and testing, mental health services, medical and holistic care, case management, support groups, poetry and writing classes, and HIV testing, treatment and care. Founded in 1990 by CEO Sharen Duke, ASC provides direct services to over 1,800 New Yorkers per year, while its peer education programs and community outreach initiatives reach an additional 18,000.
Based in downtown New York, AIDS
Service Center NYC partnered with the Keith Haring
Foundation to open the Keith Haring ASC Harlem Center in 2010 and will open a center to serve New York's Washington Heights community in 2011.
AIDS Service Center partners with major New York hospitals, such as Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, for care coordination and case management for patients with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Service Center is a member of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
.
In 2009, singer John Legend
gave AIDS Service Center permission to remix his song "If You're Out There" to create a music video promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and testing. The video was launched at AIDS Service Center's annual Safer Sex in the City fundraiser.
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
counseling and testing, mental health services, medical and holistic care, case management, support groups, poetry and writing classes, and HIV testing, treatment and care. Founded in 1990 by CEO Sharen Duke, ASC provides direct services to over 1,800 New Yorkers per year, while its peer education programs and community outreach initiatives reach an additional 18,000.
Based in downtown New York, AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
Service Center NYC partnered with the Keith Haring
Keith Haring
Keith Haring was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.-Early life:...
Foundation to open the Keith Haring ASC Harlem Center in 2010 and will open a center to serve New York's Washington Heights community in 2011.
AIDS Service Center partners with major New York hospitals, such as Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. In 2011-2012, Mount Sinai Hospital was ranked as one of America's best hospitals by U.S...
and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, for care coordination and case management for patients with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Service Center is a member of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies is a social services institution in New York City. FPWA has, since its inception in 1922, had the goal of promoting the social and economic well-being of greater New York’s most vulnerable people by strengthening human service organizations and...
.
In 2009, singer John Legend
John Legend
John Roger Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career...
gave AIDS Service Center permission to remix his song "If You're Out There" to create a music video promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and testing. The video was launched at AIDS Service Center's annual Safer Sex in the City fundraiser.