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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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National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Event

HIV Concurrency Class - Portland 

Working with Clients Living with AIDS

WOC

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:


Cultural Competency in Health Services & Care

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


New interactive tutorial: Routine HIV Screening in Health Care Settings

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.


Body & Soul: A Celebration of Healthy Eating & Living

Go to our Training for Congregations page to learn more.

Learn More About
Bringing Body & Soul
To Your Congregation!
Free Education & Materials

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. entire story



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

 


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AARTH works with the Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center/ University of Washington to offer over 25 HIV/AIDS courses, clinical preceptorships, clinical consultations, web-based learning and initiatives for professionals providing health care, treatment and education services for people of African descent in the Alaska, Oregon, Idaho and Washington States.
 

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