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On Thursday, March 4, 2021, Fox 5 NY featured the Alliance as their Coronavirus Hero of the Day, highlighting our Food and Nutrition Services, which have provided meals for hungry New Yorkers during times of unprecedented food insecurity in NYC.
Learn more about how Alliance is caring for our community during the coronavirus outbreak here: www.alliance.nyc/coronavirus and support our work by giving to the Coronavirus Support Fund today!
NY1's Kristen Shaughnessy highlighted Alliance in her Acts of Kindness report, lauding volunteers at our 30-year nonprofit for distributing hundreds of gift cards and PPE to vulnerable New Yorkers.
Learn more about how Alliance is caring for our community during the coronavirus outbreak here: www.alliance.nyc/coronavirus and support our work by giving to the Coronavirus Support Fund today!
See Alliance’s OP-ED, written by our Executive Director Sharen I. Duke, in AM New York Metro.
The Alliance for Positive Change unveils “Alliance on the Move” mobile van to provide HIV testing and other health services in communities across NYC
- Launch of the life-saving van coincides with the nonprofit’s
Summer of Testing campaign to support HIV testing -
- Watch a live stream of the ribbon-cutting here -
(New York, NY) - The Alliance for Positive Change is fueling up its campaign to put the brakes on HIV and AIDS in New York City: this week the 29-year-old nonprofit unveiled its new Alliance on the Move mobile van to head to communities across the city to provide free, life-saving HIV testing, prevention, health care, and harm reduction services.
The New York City Council provided funding for Alliance to launch the program, which will bring HIV prevention education and linkage-to-care services into low-income and hard-to-reach communities throughout the city. The program is expected to reach thousands of New Yorkers each year.
“With Alliance on the Move, we are thrilled to be bringing some of our key services—including HIV and STI testing, linkage to care, and support for people struggling with substance use—into some of the highest-need neighborhoods in New York City,” says Sharen Duke, Executive Director and CEO of Alliance. “The van will improve access to care for New Yorkers.”
Representatives from one of Alliance’s hospital partners, NewYork-Presbyterian, joined the nonprofit at the ribbon-cutting. Dr. Peter Gordon, Clinical Director of NewYork-Presbyterian’s Comprehensive HIV Program, and Dr. Matthew Scherer, Attending Infectious Diseases Physician, participated in the launch event.
Mobile outreach services will feature free HIV and hepatitis C counseling and testing, STI screenings and assessments, linkage-to-care referral services, and distribution of condoms. In conjunction with the organization’s LES Harm Reduction Center, the van also will support those impacted by the opioid epidemic through syringe exchange and naloxone training initiatives.
By targeting hard-to-engage individuals and meeting New Yorkers where they are, Alliance will improve access to HIV and hepatitis C screening; identify people who are infected but unaware of their status; connect people to quality medical care; increase knowledge of risk-reduction strategies and resources; decrease isolation through connection to support services; and improve health outcomes.
Each year, Alliance administers over 1,200 free HIV tests and provides services to more than 6,000 people at its six locations in Manhattan and the Bronx. The organization also reaches 15,000 New Yorkers through its peer education and community outreach initiatives each year. The mobile van will allow the nonprofit to expand its reach to more neighborhoods across the city—bringing its services to people in need.
In conjunction with the launch, Alliance this month kicked off its Summer of Testing campaign, which is seeking to raise $5,000 for HIV testing. Testing is the gateway to prevention services and education, or for people living with HIV, a way to access the services they need. The organization’s goal is for all New Yorkers to be armed with the information they need to live healthy and productive lives.
Alliance was founded at the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1990 to help New Yorkers affected by the crisis through connection to care, support, and resources. For the past 29 years, Alliance has continued to serve those with HIV/AIDS and expanded its successful approach to help people with chronic health conditions.
Alliance on the Move will primarily serve high-need neighborhoods in Manhattan, including Washington Heights, East and Central Harlem, the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, and Hell’s Kitchen. For more information about Alliance on the Move and to request its services, please contact Phillip Bermudez at 646-880-7436 or phillip2@alliance.nyc
About The Alliance for Positive Change
The Alliance for Positive Change transforms lives of New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses. We help people access medical care, manage addiction, escape homelessness, get back to work, and find community. By addressing the underlying issues that contribute to poor health, Alliance’s individualized, full-service approach and harm reduction philosophy help New Yorkers lead healthier, more self-sufficient lives. At Alliance, we believe everyone deserves the chance to feel better, live better, and do better. Learn more at www.alliance.nyc.
On Friday, January 25, Alliance was recognized as the Brooklyn Nets’ Nonprofit of the Night. In this interview with WFAN-FM, Alliance Executive Director/CEO Sharen Duke discusses the honor and the work we are doing to help New Yorkers feel better, live better, and do better.
Yolanda M., an Alliance Peer, is featured as part of our Positive Homes campaign
Alliance is helping formerly homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic health conditions make a home this holiday season.
The Positive Home for the Holidays campaign, provides home starter kit that includes items like kitchen supplies, toiletries, and linens. Yolanda M., an Alliance Peer, was featured by News12 Brooklyn as a recipient of one such kit.
You can help others like Yolanda create positive change by making a contribution at www.alliance.nyc/positivehomes.
Photo Credit: Getty Images/Andrew Burton
Alliance’s mission and the work of our staff and Peers was highlighted by several media outlets on World AIDS Day 2018. See below for a full roundup.
De Blasio Administration Announces Historic Low for New HIV Diagnoses (Mayor’s Office)
Dec. 1 marks 30th annual World Aids Day (PIX 11)
World AIDS Day's 30th anniversary celebrates progress as city hits record low for new diagnoses (am New York)
Messenger Of Hope (The Wave)
Commemorating World AIDS Day (WBAI-FM)
