Upcoming Classes and Events
HIV: Sexual Concurrency & Intimate Partner
Violence
Thursday, February 16, 2012, Portland, OR
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Providing Services in Complex Times:
Working with Clients Living with HIV/AIDS
Friday, February 17, 2012, Seattle, WA
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HIV/AIDS Conference for Health Professionals:
The Feminization of an Epidemic
Friday, April 20, 2012, Seattle, WA
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News
Puget Sound
Christian Clinic and local churches bringing
free health care to medically underinsured
individuals and families.
Puget Sound
Christian Clinic (PSCC), located in
North Seattle, announced its new strategy to
bring free healthcare service through a mobile
health clinic to those in need around the
Puget Sound area. PSCC’s strategy includes
collaborating with churches and para-churches
in King and Snohomish counties to implement
the new mobile clinic. One of several members
of the collaboration is the AARTH Ministry.
AARTH plans to
launch PSCC’s mobile clinic service along with
Damascus Missionary Baptist Church located at
5261 Rainier Avenue S. Seattle, 98118, the future home for the
mobile clinic. AARTH is accepting volunteers to help staff the mobile clinic
and seeking donors to support the free medical care
for underinsured individuals and families in
the Southeast Seattle. According to Mary
Diggs-Hobson, AARTH Ministry’s Executive
Director, “The PSCC collaboration and mobile
clinic is an answer to prayer. Southeast
Seattle/Rainier Valley is home to many
residents who are low-income and unemployed,
many who are underinsured or have no
insurance. "
One patient is a
59-year old diabetic patient who was uninsured with
borderline type-II diabetes. He ignored his
failing health because he did not have the
money to pay for coverage or treatment. After
learning about PSCC, and after receiving
ongoing treatments and emotional support, he has better control of his
illness, his weight, and is leading a healthier life.
He says, “There is
really a need for counseling to go with
diabetic supplies. I recently lost my wife,
and I cannot even describe how much the
emotional support from the clinic has meant to
me on top of the quality medical care I have
received. I am grateful.”
For more about
Puget Sound Christian Clinic visit
pschristianclinic.org
New York Presbyterian works on handwritten
King James Bible
New Guide for Health Care Providers
from Washington State Department of Health:
This guide can be
printed and distributed. Click
here.
Topics:
What are Health
Disparities?
What is Culture and Cultural
Competence?
How Can I Increase Cultural
Competence in the Health Care Encounter?
How do I Address Language Barriers?
Resources
This tutorial provides an
in-depth overview of the 2006 CDC
recommendations for routine HIV screening. The
following topics are reviewed and discussed:
HIV epidemiology in the U.S.
Definitions
related to HIV screening and testing
Rationale for routine HIV screening
The
2006 CDC recommendations
Potential
barriers to routine HIV screening
Diagnostic tests, and counseling and linking
to care
Each section of the tutorial is
supplemented with an interactive
self-assessment and references (with links).
This program provides for 1.5 free CME and CNE
credits. This project was funded under
cooperative agreement U65/PS000821 from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Register today
WHY AARTH?
African Americans have the
highest health disparities of all ethnic
groups. For a summary from the CDC,
click here. Leading causes of death
in the US for African Americans include
cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, and
diabetes. One of the fastest growing diseases
affecting this population is HIV/AIDS. AARTH
places special emphasis on educating people of
African descent about the devastating impact
of HIV/AIDS on the family and society.
In the news:
Medicare
Expands List of Covered Preventive Services to
Include HIV Screening Tests
Army of Women Against
Breast Cancer
The Dr. Susan Love
Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation
for Women launch the Love/Avon Army of Women
with two revolutionary goals:
* To
recruit 1,000,000 women of every age and
ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors
and women at high-risk for the disease, to
participate in research that will eradicate
breast cancer.
* To challenge the
scientific community to expand breast cancer
prevention research conducted on healthy
women.
Join us in this movement that
will take us beyond a cure by creating new
opportunities to study what causes breast
cancer—and how to prevent it.
Register Now!
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice -
Pro-Faith ~ Pro-Family ~ Pro-Choice
The Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice brings the moral power of
religious communities to ensure reproductive
choice through education and advocacy. The
Coalition seeks to give voice to the
reproductive issues of people of color, those
living in poverty, and other underserved
populations.
RCRC was founded in
1973 to safeguard the newly won constitutional
right to abortion. The Coalition founders were
clergy and lay leaders from mainstream
religions. The founders believed that there
would be at most a ten-year struggle to secure
the right to choose. In fact the struggle is
far from over. While our member organizations
are religiously and theologically diverse,
they are unified in the commitment to preserve
reproductive choice as a basic part of
religious liberty.
Our rational,
healing perspective looks beyond the bitter
abortion debate to seek solutions to pressing
problems such as unintended pregnancy, the
spread of HIV/AIDS, inadequate health care and
health insurance, and the severe reduction in
reproductive health care services. We support
access to sex education, family planning and
contraception, affordable child care and
health care, and adoption services as well as
safe, legal, abortion services, regardless of
income. We work for public policies that
ensure the medical, economic, and educational
resources necessary for healthy families and
communities that are equipped to nurture
children in peace and love.
Go to our
Training for Congregations
page to learn more.
Click here for a poster.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Remember the "3" steps
STR 
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The
stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people
nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke .
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking
three simple questions:
S
Ask the individual to SMILE.
T
Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE
(Coherently)
(i.e. It is sunny out today)
R Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or
she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call 999/911
immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
Washingtonians will save up
to 60% on their prescription drugs
OLYMPIAOLYMPIA – Governor Chris Gregoire
introduced a new, state-sponsored prescription drug
discount card that will save Washingtonians an average of
20% on brand-name drugs and 60% on generic drugs. The card
will be available to all Washington residents, regardless
of age or income.
“We want to get the news out
to everyone in the state who is struggling with high
prescription drug costs,” said Governor Gregoire. “There
is help. Even if you don’t qualify for other discount
programs, this card will save you money on prescription
drugs.”
The Washington Prescription Drug Program
card is available now. Enrollment forms are available
on-line at www.rx.wa.gov or by calling 1-800-913-4146.
TELLING
MOM was one of the hardest things Reginald Diggs ever had
to do. He was infected with HIV. He'd been living on the
"down low," having sex with other men against the
teachings of his church and his mom, his life-long comfort
and strength. Would she still love him?
Sex,
spirituality and secrecy are a tangle for men on the "down
low," and one of the reasons (along with poverty, drug
use, incarceration and poor access to health care) for
soaring HIV-infection rates among African Americans.
Consider:
• African
Americans are 12 percent of the U.S. population, but about
half of the million people infected with HIV.
• In King
County, blacks are 5 percent of the population but 22
percent of the HIV cases.
•
African-American men are infected with HIV at seven times
the rate of white men; African-American women at 19 times
the rate of white women. In both cases, transmission is
mostly through sex with men.
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HIV/AIDS Church Outreach: Faith Community
Covenant
On March 2, 2006, pastors in
the Seattle area signed the
HIV/AIDS Church Outreach:
Faith Community Covenant
Rev. Carl
Livingston, Jr, Grace United
Methodist; Rev. Dr. Amos
Landry, Peoples Institutional
Baptist Church; Rev. Gwendolyn
Hall, Sojourner Truth
Ministries; Rev. Gwendolyn
Coates, God Answers Prayer
Ministries; Rev. Robert L.
Manaway, Sr., Tabernacle
Missionary Baptist Church;
Rev. Herbert J. Carey, Martin
Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Baptist Church; Rev. Carey G.
Anderson, First A.M.E. Church;
Rev. Zachary K. Bruce, Sr.,
Freedom Church of Seattle;
Rev. Reginald Diggs, Sanctuary
Ministries; Rev. Mary
Diggs-Hobson, African
Americans Reach and Teach
Health Ministry
Contact us for more info
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