A&PI Wellness Center Now Offers Oral HIV Testing in San Mateo County
(San Francisco, April 14 2005)

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center (A&PI Wellness Center) now offers free, confidential, and anonymous standard oral HIV antibody testing in San Mateo County, with results available in one week. Tests are available by appointment at the North County Health Center, Room 108, 380 90th Street, Daly City, on the second and fourth Monday of the month. For appointments, call 650.669.0482.

A&PI Wellness Center also offers free, confidential, and anonymous rapid oral (results available in one hour) and standard oral HIV antibody testing at its San Francisco office, located at 730 Polk Street, Fourth Floor in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Rapid HIV testing is available every Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., by appointment only. To schedule a rapid HIV test appointment, call 415.292.3420 x304. Standard oral HIV testing is available on a drop-in basis every Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. No blood is drawn during either test, and both are pain-free.

A&PI Wellness Center provides counseling throughout the testing process, in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese, and English. Interpretation services are available for other Asian and Pacific Islander languages.

A&PI Wellness Center's mission is to educate, support, empower, and advocate for A&PI communities – particularly A&PIs living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS. A&PI Wellness Center is the oldest non-profit HIV/AIDS services organization in North America targeting A&PI communities. The organization will launch a nationwide anti-stigma campaign on Thursday, May 19 with The First Annual National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and concurrent events in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago, Honolulu, Boston, and Los Angeles.

For more information contact:

Amanda Beth Elder
A&PI Wellness Center
415.292.3420 x347
amanda@apiwellness.org



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