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Care Services for People Living with HIV/AIDS |
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A&PI Wellness Center fills a critical gap for A&PIs living with HIV. Our HIV Care Services is the only integrated HIV services program targeting A&PIs in Northern California. Since 1989, we have served over 600 HIV-positive A&PIs.
The majority of our clients are uninsured or underinsured; limited or non-English speaking; refugees, immigrants or asylees; homeless or marginally housed; substance users; mentally ill. Most found out their HIV
status late into the disease, frequently when they were hospitalized with an opportunistic infection.
HIV Care Services’ model (see flower diagram) integrates primary care with psychiatric, mental health, HIV treatment, psychosocial support and, in response to evolving needs, targeted HIV prevention with positives programming. Our success relies upon our collaborations with Tom Waddell Health Center (San Francisco Department of Public Health) and Family Services Agency of San Francisco, Inc.
In 2002, with seed funding from The California Endowment, we opened an office in downtown Oakland to respond to the needs of a burgeoning HIV epidemic among Burmese and Vietnamese refugees. In the same year, we initiated services in San Mateo County.
While delivering our client-centered services, we strive to build new kinds of families, families which are not blood-related but are relationships built on trust, respect and caring, and that acknowledge the strong cultural, familial and ancestral ties which ground all of us.
Find out more about our case management services, a free on-site clinic, mental health and substance abuse counseling and our various support groups and workshops.
Download the Clinician's Guide to Working with Asians & Pacific Islanders Living with HIV.
Find out Positive Options for Individuals with HIV(POI) program.
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Client Navigator Guide |
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 Our sister organization in New York City -- the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) -- recently published an excellent resouce: the Client Navigator Guide. The guide is a 54-page informative booklet, available in eight languages -- Bengali, Chinese, English, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese. An empowering tool, it assists clients with information to assist them in making important decisions on medical treatment, nutrition and exercise, legal, and financial issues. The guide helps clients answer questions about living with HIV or AIDS.
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