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.
We serve the following agencies in HIV prevention activities:
- Genesis House
- Dozier House
- Serenity Recovery Centers
- Mid Town Mental Health Centers
- Foundations Associates
- Harbor House
- Centenary United Methodist Church
- Golden Gate Full Gospel Baptist Church
- 2nd Congregational Church
- LeMoyne-Owen College Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
- WLOK 1340AM Radio's " The Janis Fullilove Show"
- River City Chapter of LINKS' "License To Live"
- Department of Childrens' Services' Peabody Residential Treatment Center
- Project WIT (Whatever It Takes)
- Youth Villages
- YO! Memphis
- Memphis Health Centers, Inc.
- Peabody Residential Treatment Center
- Trezevant Career Academy
- Freedom Road Relapse Prevention Program
- Pyramid Recovery Center Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program
- City of Memphis Professional Development Center
- Cocaine Alcohol Awareness Program
- Memphis City Schools HIV Prevention Program
- St. Luke M.B. Church ( Covington, TN.)
- African American Pastor's Consortium
- Business Oriented Workers 100
- Comprehensive Counseling Network
- Shifting Gears
- LeMoyne-Owen Community Development Corporation
- Holy Temple Cathedral of Deliverance
- Trinity Broadcasting Network
- Girls Incorporated
- George Washington Carver High School Family Resource Center
- State of Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole
- Whitehaven Southwest Mental Health Center, Inc.
- Memphis Job Corps Center
- Shelby County Corrections Jail East
- Families of Incarcerated Individuals
- Southwest Tennessee Community College's Diversity Conference
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)
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