Agency News and Articles of Interest



  • "Two minutes with....Debbie Geldart"
    WORCESTER, MA, March 25, 2010: A Worcester Magazine interview with Debbie Geldart, a client of and volunteer at AIDS Project Worcester. To read the article, go here

  • List of Support Groups in Worcester
    WORCESTER, MA, February 18, 2010: For a complete and up-to-date list of support groups in the City of Worcester, including contact information for each agency, go here.


  • Fighting the Opiate Crisis in Massachusetts
    BOSTON, MA, February 4, 2010: "A crisis in opiate abuse is affecting individuals and families across Massachusetts...", details an article in the Boston Globe. To read the story, go here.

  • "AIDS Project Worcester is like my family."
    WORCESTER, MA, December 2009: “They helped me with getting to know who I really am,” continues Debbie Geldert, a client - and volunteer - at AIDS Project Worcester, “and how to advocate for people, including myself. I learned how to grow as an individual." Read Debbie's complete interview here. Debbie says that for years, she and her family have benefited from the generosity shown to them at AIDS Project Worcester: "I'd be lost without them."

  • Updated lists of area food pantries.
    Go here to download a list of area food pantries with their hours of operation and contact information.
  • ColorLines, the national newsmagazine on race and politics, highlights AIDS Project Worcester's WOMEN's Health Project.
    OAKLAND CA, August 2009: Go here to view the article, "Rethinking HIV Prevention: A new program connects women's experiences of sexual violence to the risks of contracting HIV" published in the magazine's July/August issue.

  • Green Light for Operation Yellow Box
    WORCESTER, May 20, 2009 - 216 gallons - which is a large mass - of syringes and lancets are off the streets of Worcester thanks to Operation Yellow Box, which saw its inaugural installation at AIDS Project Worcester a year ago. Joe McKee, the agency's executive director, gives an update on the program in this T&G guest editorial.

    AllCare Pharmacy a Resource for AIDS patients - and the neighborhood
     WORCESTER, April 27, 2009 — AllCare Pharmacy, which opened right inside AIDS Project Worcester in the fall of 2008, is profiled in this Telegram and Gazette story. And don't forget to follow the link to read readers' comments to the article.

  • AllCare Pharmacy
     WORCESTER, April 7, 2009 —“The concern for these clients going to a typical run-of-the-mill retail pharmacy is that there’s a lack of privacy and often a lack of empathy on the part of the pharmacist,” says Daniel Apelian, All Care’s president and manager of operations. The pharmacy that opened this past October sees about 300 clients, 200 of whom are HIV-positive. It’s the only pharmacy in Central Massachusetts that specializes in serving the HIV-positive/AIDS population...

  • Every 9 1/2 minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV
     WASHINGTON, DC, April 7, 2009 — ACT Against AIDS was launched on April 7, 2009. A rebroadcase of the White House webcast will be available soon. Follow the link above to visit the new website or go here. There are a number of links to other sites, including AIDS.gov and HIVTest.org

      Every 9½ minutes someone in the US is infected with HIV. Act Against AIDS.  


  • HIV/AIDS Rate in nation's capital "Higher Than West Africa"
    WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2009 — The rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Washington, D.C. is "higher than West Africa" reported MSNBC today, citing a story in The Washington Post that referred to a report due out Monday. Every mode of transmission for the virus and the disease is rising, from men having sex with men, and heterosexual and injected drug use. "The true number of residents currently infected and living with HIV is certainly higher," said a health official." Go here to read the MSNBC posting. We will track down the report and post a link to it as well

  • APW receives nutrition grant from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
    WORCESTER, Feb. 18, 2009 — A $5,000 grant from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will be put to good use in APWs food bank and nutrition program. Says Tricia Price, nutrition specialist, "We understand the importance of culturally appropriate, fresh food as part of the nutrition therapy for our consumers. And in these difficult economic times, more and more people are accessing our food bank. We have even increased the number of times a month a consumcer can access the food bank from two times a month to three times a month. This grant is very much appreciated." Go here to find out more about Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS grant programs."

  • Transgender Emergency Fund
    The Transgender Emergency Fund (TEF) provides critical financial assistance to low-income transgender and transsexual people. The TEF is currently fiscally sponsored by APW, but it is a volunteer-run effort with no overhead. Every penny raised goes directly to people in need. For more information or to donate, please check out the website www.tgemergencyfund.org...

  • APW assesses HIV risk factors; Women's Initiative targets needs
    WORCESTER, Feb. 4, 2009 — A face and a story from the Women's HIV/Sexual Violence Initiative explains how the program has helped her after her assault. Read the Telegram & Gazette article here...

  • Major Grant Announcement Feb. 2
    WORCESTER, Jan. 29, 2009 — Kevin Cranston, Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease, Mass. Dept. of Public Health, will be the keynote speaker at a press conference announcing a major grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts to AIDS Project Worcester for the implementation phase of its Women's HIV/Sexual Violence Initiative. Read more...

  • Two Minutes with Jesse Pack
    WORCESTER, Jan. 22, 2009 — Jesse Pack, head of AIDS Project Worcester's prevention and education department, was interviewed in Worcester Magazine. Read it here...

  • United We Stand for Public Health
    WORCESTER, Jan. 14, 2009 — Joe McKee, executive director of AIDS Project Worcester, calls on Governor Patrick to protect public health funding in the state budget. Read the letter he and a score of other executive directors sent to the Governor and Judy Ann Bigby, Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

  • Grant monies to help transgender coummunity
    WORCESTER, Jan. 14, 2009 — Joe McKee, the executive director of AIDS Project Worcester, is pleased to announce that the agency is the recipient of a $16,000 grant from

  • APW board member Arlete Falkowski organizes health care meeting
    FRAMINGHAM, Dec. 29, 2008 — Heeding a call from the Obama-Biden presidential transition team to organize in small groups to tackle major issues, a group of health advocates and Latino and Portuguese-speaking civic leaders met to discuss health care reform. Read more...

  • Recent Dept. of Public Health report updates impact of HIV/AIDS on Commonwealth residents
    WORCESTER, Dec. 2, 2008 — More than two decades into the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, there are some encouraging signs of progress in preventing the spread of the virus, but certain groups still have stubbornly high burdens of disease.  Read More...

 

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