AIDS Project Worcester

"I am my brother's keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS"
National Black AIDS Awareness Day
Tuesday, Feb. 7
YMCA of Central Massachusetts, 766 Main St
5-9pm

This national event encourages Blacks across America to get educated, tested, involved and treated for HIV/AIDS.

Please join us at this free event for a dinner and guest speaker as AIDS Project Worcester, Gilead Pharmaceuticals, and YMCA of Central Massachusetts collaborate to bring HIV/AIDS awareness to our community.

For more information, please contact Marilyn Rodriguez at 508.755.3773, ext. 22 or email her at marilyn@aidsprojectworcester.org

December 6th Toy Drive a Huge Success

We would like to thank a number of local businesses and sponsors who helped make this annual event such a success for the children and grandchildren of agency consumers:

* Rotman Family Philanthropic Foundation

* Greenberg, Rosenblatt Kull & Bitsoli, P.C.

* Gould & Ettenberg, P.C.

* Kermit and Jean Eaton

* Wings Over Worcester

* Jack Reiff Consulting d/b/a Wet-Tech

* Imperial Distributors

* Big Y Supermarkets

AIDS Memorial Quilt
An important part of our 25th Anniversary - which will be held Thursday, October 4, 2012, at the Hogan Campus Center at
the College of the Holy Cross - will be the display of several panels of the national AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Did you create a panel in memory of a loved one taken by HIV/AIDS?
Would you like to see his or her panel displayed next year here in Worcester?
Please contact Martha Akstin at makstin@aidsprojectworcester.org to discuss how this might happen or call her at 508.755.3773, ext. 18.
For more information about the quilt, go here.

The Newest Prevention Campaign

Recognizing that heterosexual transmission is a leading cause of new HIV infections in Worcester, the Prevention and Education Department at AIDS Project Worcester has released a new advertising campaign to raise awareness among communities at highest risk for HIV transmission and to encourage safer sex and routine HIV testing.

We thank the following people who made this campaign a reality: Craig Weinreich, Toyin Akinbuli, Banjo Olaniyan, and Jesse Pack.

For more information about the posters, email Jesse Pack at jessep@aidsprojectworcester.org.

Go here and here to see the posters.

Prevention Campaign

To recognize that HIV infections among gay and bisexual men make up a significant portion of all new HIV infections in Worcester County and that many new HIV infections happen during the course of primary relationships, AIDS Project Worcester has released an ad campaign.This campaign is meant to both affirm relationships between men as well as raise awareness of the need for increased HIV testing among male same-sex couples.

This ad campaign is comprised of posters and wallet cards in English and Spanish that are being distributed among community venues and provider agencies frequented by gay and bisexual men.

You can download color copies of our new ads by going here for the English version and here for the Spanish version.

This campaign was made possible by the generosity of Jesse Pack, Craig Weinreich, Dan Aponte, and a grant from MetLife.
For more information, contact Jesse Pack at jessep@aidsprojectworcester.org

Green and Gold Community Garden Ribbon Cutting

Read the Worcester Magazine story here.

Boston Gay Men's Chorus
Thank you to all who contributed, attended, and supported the Boston Gay Men's Chorus' benefit concert for AIDS Project Worcester at Mechanics Hall on Sunday, April 3.

To read a T&G review of the performance, go here

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