Chicago House is on the cutting edge of HIV prevention, offering two innovative programs that focus on educating the HIV-positive population and promoting safer health practices.
Be Aware, Be Alive is designed to encourage safer practices among those who are HIV positive, preventing new infections while keeping those already impacted from contracting a drug-resistant strain of HIV. Be Aware, Be Alive works on two fronts: counseling HIV-positive individuals on prevention, and identifying some of the estimated 25% of those living with HIV who are unaware of their status.
-
PASHN (Positive Adherence and Stable Housing Now) evolved from a 2002 program developed in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago, called the Medication Adherence Program Study (MAPS). With a grant from the Pfizer Foundation, the lessons learned from MAPS will be brought to the participants of the Be Aware, Be Alive program through peer counselors, helping them not only reach their goals of staying healthy through medication adherence, but helping to stem the spread of HIV through lower transmissible viral loads.
|
