Annual Community Day Health and Wellness Fair 2024
Join DC Health and the Places of Worship Advisory Board at the Marshall Heights Community Development Center for:
Join DC Health and the Places of Worship Advisory Board at the Marshall Heights Community Development Center for:
Join DC Health and Walgreens for a celebration of progress as we provide HIV testing and share resources that will help end the HIV Epidemic in DC.
Are you interested in participating in the Community Health and Wellness Day 2024? The Places of Worship and Advisory Board (POWAB) seeks DMV area-wide businesses that wish to participate, donate, and/or promote their products or services at the upcoming Community Health and Wellnesses Day 2024. Join us!
Join DC Health at Capital Pride. DC Health will be in the Parade and at the Capital Pride Festival. While at the Festival you can get free HIV Testing, Mpox vaccinations, and more.
The Youth Health Summit is for providers, community-based organizations and youth to build knowledge through presentations and discussions on youth-centered services on HIV and STIs in the DMV!
The theme for NWGHAAD 2023 is: Prevention and Testing at Every Age. Care and Treatment at Every Stage. OWH continues this theme to reemphasize the need to further prevention efforts and ensure equity in HIV care and treatment. It also reinforces the first 3 goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), that focus on the prevention of new HIV infections, improving HIV-related health outcomes of people living with HIV, and reducing HIV-related disparities.
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This event is for youth between the ages of 13 and 19.
February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), which was first observed in 1999. This observance is a day to acknowledge how HIV disproportionately affects Black people.
This year’s theme for World AIDS Day is “World AIDS Day 35: Remember and Commit.” This annual event serves as a reminder of the global struggle to end HIV-related stigma, an opportunity to honor those we have lost, and a rallying cry to continue working toward a day when HIV is no longer a public health threat.
Resources:
El 15 de octubre: Día Nacional Latinx Para la Concientización del SIDA, un día para detener el estigma del VIH y abordar el impacto desproporcionado del VIH en comunidades latinas. https://bit.ly/3PLTg5O #DetengamosJuntosElVIH #NLAAD
October 15 is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day, a day to help stop HIV stigma and address the disproportionate impact of HIV on Hispanic/Latino communities. https://bit.ly/3CvPXNb #StopHIVTogether #NLAAD