NorCal AIDS Cycle - May 17 to May 20 - Join us at the Capitol on May 20 around 11AM for the closing ceremonies.
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day - May 18
National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day - May 19
Memorial Day - CARES will be closed - May 28
Thank you to everyone who helped voted CARES as the "Best Gay Group / Club / Organization" in the Outword's Best of Poll 2012! We are honored with this recognition!
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FREE HIV AND STD TESTING
CARES offers free & confidential walk-in and appointment HIV & STD testing Monday through Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm, and Thursday, 9:00am – 7:00 pm. (NOTE: No STD testing after 5:00pm)
Please note, Mondays and Fridays are our busiest days for HIV & STD testing. You can make an appointment to avoid a long wait time.
Call916.914.6305 for more information and to schedule an appointment.
CARES is located at 1500 21st St. (near O Street) Sacramento, CA 95811
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Strategic Initiative for HIV/AIDS Care & Prevention Annual Update
We hope you’ll join us for this special event on June 13, 2012 as we share our successes from the past year, goals for this year, and challenges we have yet to overcome.
$500 or $1,000 tables available for sponsorship (call for details)
No-host Cocktail Reception, 5:30-6:00pm Program and Dinner, 6:00-8:00pm
Woodlake Hotel (formally the Radisson) 500 Leisure Lane | Sacramento, CA | 95818
For more information, contact Jon Benorden at 916.914.6246 or
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CARES Recognized as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home
CARES applied for and was granted recognition as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home. We are honored to achieve this recognition on our first attempt. CARES is the only PCMH in Sacramento.
A patient-centered medical home is a model of care that strengthens the clinician-patient relationship by replacing episodic care with coordinated care and a long-term healing relationship. Each patient has a relationship with a primary care clinician who leads a team that takes collective responsibility for patient care, providing for the patient’s health care needs and arranging for appropriate care with other qualified clinicians. The medical home is intended to result in more personalized, coordinated, effective and efficient care. A medical home achieves these goals through a high level of accessibility, providing excellent communication among patients, clinicians and staff and taking full advantage of the latest information technology to prescribe, communicate, track test results, obtain clinical support information and monitor performance.
Click here for more information about Patient Centered Medical Homes.
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Bono, Jon Stewart and the HIV/AIDS Message
One of the most interesting conversations on a health topic happened recently on The Daily Show between Bono and Jon Stewart. Bono told Stewart that we were "at the beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic," promising an announcement the next day that would explain how a combination of early treatment, treatment for pregnant women, and circumcision, would turn the epidemic around if the American people would continue to put money into the cause. Stewart responded cautiously: "I am looking forward to hearing that," he said, "because that sounds remarkable and people's hopes have been raised before about the end of this disease, but I really hope that there is something."
The conversation between the two captures the tension between the opportunity for new optimism and the continuing need for realism about the AIDS epidemic. How do we strike the right balance between these two messages? Are there other essential messages?
The in+care Campaign is a quality improvement initiative focusing on retaining patients living with HIV in care and preventing them from falling out of care. Federally funded HIV providers across the U.S. are invited to join this collaborative effort.
CARES Addressing HIV, STDs,and Testing at an Early Age
CARES believes empowering youth to educate each other about HIV prevention and testing is the best way to stop new infections among Sacramento's youth. It is often the risky behaviors young people engage in during their high school and college years that set them up for subsequent sexual health problems.
Youth often face barriers to HIV testing, such as lack of resources to pay for testing and fear of their parents and peers finding out they are getting tested for HIV and STDs.
CARES has a successful youth-focused program utilizing social networks, viral marketing and texting to inform youth about where to find free safe sex kits and testing sites in their area.
To help equip this program with a qualified base of educators, please forward this notice to any qualified college age or high school students.
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HIV & Aging: More adults are living with HIV
The miracle of growing old was all but unimaginable for them 30 years ago, at the dawn of the age of AIDS. But today the number of people 50 and older diagnosed with HIV or living with AIDS is booming, both across the country and in Sacramento County, where they account for more than a quarter of the 3,300 known cases.
A CDC study reported that new HIV infections in the United States continue at far too high a level, with an estimated 56,300 individuals becoming infected each year. Of all the new HIV cases discovered each year, at least one-third go undiagnosed for so long that the patients develops AIDS within a year of diagnosis.
So we're asking our allies in health care to help.
Please, talk to your patients about HIV
Offer regular testing
Share this message with your colleagues
And thank you for serving our community.
Here are some documents that you may find helpful:
Established in response to the devastating AIDS epidemic, CARES was founded in May of 1989. Since then, we’ve grown to become the leading HIV/AIDS care provider in the Sacramento area.
Thanks to the generous support of our funders and volunteers, CARES is able to treat thousands of people in need every year.
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