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The southern states of the USA are not as well served as others in terms of HIV treatment or prevention Thus, the team at Positive Impact Health Centers (PIHC), Atlanta, GA, USA, sees a continuous and ever-increasing demand for their services across their three sites-including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), screening for sexually transmitted infection (STIs), and treatment for HIV. Chief Executive Officer, Larry Lehman, has worked in HIV since the darkest days of the epidemic in the 1980s. In 1994 he joined one of the precursor organisations of PIHC, AID Gwinnett, which merged with Positive Impact Health Centers in 2015. PIHC has 135 dedicated and energetic staff and a budget of US$30 million. PIHC's frontline staff in the three centres in Decatur, Duluth, and Marietta (GA, USA), have packed agendas, day-in, day-out. Edreesya Ashraf is the Senior Prevention Manager and previously worked in HIV care in his hometown of Cleveland (OH, USA), before moving to Atlanta to be closer to family. He is based at the Decatur Center, close to midtown Atlanta which contains most of the city's LBGTQ bars and clubs. "Testing and how we deal with results has changed a lot over the years", Edreesya

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Author

Kirby, Tony

Publisher

Elsevier ; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier BV (ISSN 2352-3018)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)