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Since our founding in 1983, the Center has been fully committed to providing HIV & AIDS services to our community, which has been profoundly affected by the AIDS epidemic.

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Center Ride: September 21 - 23, 2012



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  Individual Counseling

  Medical, legal, and social service resource referrals

  HIV and AIDS prevention and education

  Living with HIV and AIDS, including case-management ... and more

HIV & AIDS Spotlight

More than one million people in the United States have HIV. This year alone thousands will die from AIDS related complications. At Center Wellness we provide support for people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS 365 days a year. And because of your incredible fundraising, we do it free of charge. We offer individual, couples, family, and group counseling as well as a variety of events, speakers, and informal social gatherings for positive people and their loved ones. With $10,000, 20 people newly diagnosed with HIV will get a full year of counseling at the Center.

Your fundraising efforts help the LGBT Center continue to offer life-saving and life-changing services to HIV positive members of the community, like “Dan,” an immigrant who came to the Center on the brink of suicide after his health began deteriorating as a result of his HIV positive status. Counselors at the Center gave him the emotional and mental help to cope with the difficulties of being an undocumented immigrant and HIV positive, and he now lives a fulfilling life once again. “Dan’s” story is just one of thousands of lives impacted for the better by the Center’s HIV/AIDS Services. “Julio” found that after a lifetime of smoking cigarettes and being HIV-positive for 26 years, his health was in bad condition. He had shortness of breath, two bronchial infections, weight loss, chronic fatigue, and many other problems. He came to the Center’s Commit to Quit program to end his damaging addiction to cigarettes, and three years after participating in the program, he is not only nicotine free, but also drug and alcohol free. Center Wellness programs are extremely beneficial to clients living with HIV.

CONTACT For more information or to contact a counselor, call 646-556-9300.