Beneficiaries
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)
The Pride Center at Equality Park
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the world’s largest AIDS organization, and has provided care for more than 100,000 people with HIV/AIDS, while administering more than 100,000 HIV tests annually. AHF also conducts medical research to investigate potential new treatments and cures, provides HIV prevention education, and operates free treatment clinics in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Serving the HIV/AIDS Community in Florida
In Florida, AIDS Healthcare Foundation serves more than 15,000 people living with HIV/AIDS through a variety of programs, including: AHF NorthPoint in Fort Lauderdale, the AHF Magic Johnson Healthcare Centers in Miami and Jacksonville, Wellness Centers in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, HIV testing and prevention programs throughout the State, AHF Pharmacy, Out of the Closet Thrift Stores, two mobile medical clinics, Positive Healthcare managed care programs, and a statewide disease management program.
Positive Healthcare Disease Management takes a comprehensive approach to the management of HIV disease, providing physician consultations and intensive care management focused on adherence to treatment regimens. Each patient is assigned a registered nurse as his or her personal Care Manager. The program also emphasizes education by disseminating clinical practice guidelines to both patients and providers.
Positive Healthcare Managed Care operates in Dade and Broward counties and is the nation’s first managed care program for HIV-positive people.
AHF’s Out of the Closet Thrift Stores in offers free HIV testing and treatment referral through an AHF Pharmacy built adjacent to the store. AHF’s nonprofit pharmacies employ only HIV specialists; all profits received are reinvested in AHF’s local and global programs.
A Legacy of Life
From its first days as a hospice, to now helping thousands around the world through life saving anti-retroviral therapy, AHF is leaving a legacy of life. AIDS Healthcare Foundation pledges to fight this disease no matter whom it afflicts, or where it is found. Only when HIV is eradicated from the globe will we fully meet our goal.
For more information, please visit www.aidshealth.org.
Broward House, Inc. was founded in 1988 by a group of concerned persons who realized that there were critical needs for quality care and support services for Broward County individuals who were HIV positive.
Broward House served its first clients in July 1989 when it opened a fifty two bed assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale serving Broward residents living with HIV/AIDS. As the needs of the HIV/AIDS community grew and evolved, Broward House responded and developed programs and services to meet those needs.
Today, Broward House has over 11 locations and offers both assisted living and independent family living, medical respite, case management, client advocacy, HIV testing and counseling, street outreach, a variety of education and prevention programs, chemical dependency treatment, mental health therapy, and support groups.
Broward House serves over 6,000 Women, Children, Men and Families living with or at risk for the HIV/AIDS virus.
For more information, please visit www.browardhouse.org.
SunServe is the first Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Social Service Agency in South Florida. Recognizing that everyone has the right for quality services and care, their mission is to reach out to those in need with an emphasis on the economically disadvantaged, and marginalized youth, senior adults, and people of differing abilities and life changing health conditions in greater South Florida.
In February 2002, SunServe set out to build and operate the World’s first Adult Day Care Center designed to meet the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community.
The Noble A. McArtor Adult Day Care Center is now home away from home to more then 30 frail seniors who enjoy a host of activities throughout the week, allowing their caregivers and families the much needed respite they longed for. In the following year, SunServe, under the experienced leadership of Dr. James Lopresti, formed the Counseling and Psychotherapy Program. With a shoestring budget and a collective team of 40 community therapists, this program grew into what is today the Center for Community Services and Family Development. This program continues to expand and evolve to include projects aimed at training professionals and the community at large on issues around sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identification; providing individual, couples, family and group mental health counseling, therapy and support; and empowering youth and families to understand and nurture their ongoing development and growth process around issues involving the continuum of sexualities and self-identification.
For more information, please visit www.sunserve.org.
The Pride Center at Equality Park’s mission is to provide a welcoming, safe space — an inclusive home that celebrates, nurtures and empowers the LGBTQ communities and our friends and neighbors in South Florida. They embrace individuality and diversity, work together, and promote awareness, acceptance, celebration and pride.
The Pride Center provides programs and services to the community that include bereavement, domestic violence, HIV/AIDS & STD education and testing, and “Pride University” classes, as well as special activities and groups for seniors, transgendered persons, youth, and women.
For more information, please visit www.glccsf.org.
Women In Network (WIN) is a social and networking organization for Lesbians, offering the opportunity for women to experience a sense of friendship and community while working toward the common goals of pride, achievement and harmony.
Now celebrating their 22nd year, they are holding fast to their ongoing commitment to the health and education of women. Their mission is to promote and unite women through business and social networking, and their members are a diverse group of women— including teachers, retirees, medical professionals, artists, sales people, and performers, to name but a few.
For more information, please visit www.womeninnetwork.com.