HIV Prevention

Friends For Life's HIV Education Prevention Program is provided to the community by our staff of certified American Red Cross HIV Educators and Instructors. Our staff educators serve on the Southwest Tennessee HIV Prevention Community Planning Group, Tennessee HIV Prevention Community Planning Group and the Tennessee AIDS Council. We are active members of a number of community-related coalitions: Foundations Associates HIV Advisory Board, the Shelby County Coalition to Eradicate Syphilis, and the Memphis HIV Testing and Prevention Network.

Friends For Life education staff members annually participate in the following community events and national observances:

• World AIDS Day
• National HIV Testing Day
• National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness & Information Day
• National STD Awareness Month
• Black Church Week of Prayer & Healing of AIDS
• African American Pastor’s Consortium Educational Conference
• and many others.

We work closely with other agencies that provide HIV/AIDS services to the Memphis community including:

• Adult Special Care Center
• Memphis Shelby County Health Department
• New Directions, Inc. HIV Outreach Program
• Memphis Health Centers
• Memphis Regional Planned Parenthood
• Project H.O.P.E.
• South Memphis Alliance
• AIDS Virus Awareness
• Girls Incorporated
• Community HIV Network

Friends For Life's HIV Education and Prevention Program provides educational sessions and presentations in a community-wide effort to reduce the number of HIV infections through education, prevention and awareness.

Prevention News Mailing List Information

The Prevention News Mailing List is maintained by the National Prevention Information Network (NPIN), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. Regular postings include the Prevention News Update, conference announcements, current funding opportunities, select articles from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report series and announcements about new NPIN products and services.

To join the Prevention News listserv, send a blank e-mail to prevention-news-subscribe@cdcnpin.org. For instructions on how to remove yourself from the listserv, send a blank e-mail to prevention-news-unsubscribe@cdcnpin.org.

Prevention-Related Web Sites of Interest

Adult Special Care Center
http://coetenn.bizland.com/COEsites/COEtenn_ASC.htm

Memphis Regional Planned Parenthood
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/memphis/

CDC National Prevention Information Network
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp

Take a quiz to find out how much you know about HIV.
http://www.wemakethechange.com/english/quiz.htm

Other Prevention-Related Stories

Friends For Life Commemorates National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2008 (Adobe PDF)