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HIV & AIDS for Los Angeles

Being Alive Los Angeles

Being Alive is an organization operated by and for people living with HIV/AIDS. We understand the pain and the fear, how easy it is to hide, how difficult it can be to come to terms with this disease and reach out.

Being Alive is the means we have created to help us connect with each other, bring others out of isolation, and take charge of our lives, our care and our destiny.

Being Alive Los Angeles

7531 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 100

West Hollywood, Ca. 90046

http://www.beingalivela.org/

info@beingalivela.org

323-874-4322 or by fax: 323-969-8753

Being Alive Los Angeles Ceramics Studio

Facilitator: Brian Glover

gloverbrian@sbcglobal.net

Oasis Clinic

“Where First Class People Are Treated First Class.”

The O.A.S.I.S. which stands for Outpatient Alternative Services Intervention System.

History and Birth of the O.A.S.I.S. Program

The clinic began in 1986 as a specialty clinic for HIV infected patients at Martin Luther King, Jr., Hospital. It was located on the 4th floor and was called the Specialty Clinic. As it grew, the need for Primary Health Care, an Early Intervention and HIV testing program was identified, this service was integrated for those who have not been tested.

The Early Intervention Outpatient programs required enrollment and has been available to confirmed HIV positive people. In 1995 the clinic relocated to Parking Lot C to maintain confidentiality and avoid discrimination. It was renamed the O.A.S.I.S. Clinic.

O.A.S.I.S. Programs and Operation

The Outpatient Alternative Services Intervention System (O.A.S.I.S.) provides confidential services to clients through 5 (five) programs: Testing, Early Intervention, Outpatient Treatment, Chemotherapy, and Focus Intervention and Partner Notification Prevention Program.

The O.A.S.I.S. Network provides services at 4 (Four) convenient locations. Transportation is provided through bus pass, tokens and taxicab. O.A.S.I.S. is committed to each client’s total well being regardless of the ability to pay, physical impairment, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or national origin.

The O.A.S.I.S. Clinic

1807 E. 120th Street

Los Angeles, CA 90059

Office: 310.668.4213

Fax: 310.631.2934

Common Ground

Working together to fight HIV

Common Ground in Santa Monica is the only comprehensive HIV agency serving the west side of Los Angeles. On the west side of Los Angeles, thousands of people are infected with HIV, many of whom don’t even know it. Homeless people, women of color and the working poor face a higher risk – and new infections, especially in young people, have grown at an alarming rate.

Common Ground Westside

2012 Lincoln Boulevard

Santa Monica, CA 90405

infor@commongroundwestside.org

http://www.commongroundwestside.org/

(310) 314-5480 or toll free at (888) 554-5459

Brian Risley

AIDS Treatment Educator

AIDS Project Los Angeles

213-201-1600

brisley@apla.org

Brian Risley also runs a weekly support group for newly diagnosed HIV positive men. Please email Brian for details on the support group.

Girl Friday

HIV Support group for women with HIV or AIDS through AIDS Project Los Angeles

Tiana Monteih

tmonteilh@apla.org

213-201-1313

INTERNET SUPPORT SERVICES AND OUTSTANDING SOCIAL NETWORKS

Homelessness

Project KengiKat

Doing something...that means something

http://www.projectkengikat.ning.com/

The Homeless Guy

There is more to homeless people then being homelessness

http://www.thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/

I Am Alive Tube

One Video Can Change A Life. Make That Video Yours

I Am Alive Tube is a Social Filmmaking community who's purposes is to puts a face on America's homeless society, so they may never be forgotten. The Urban Institute estimates that about 3.5 million US residents, including 1.35 million children, have been homeless for a significant period of time. Over 37,000 homeless individuals, including 16,000 children, stay in shelters in New York every night.

Through social filmmaking, you can bring a face to those that otherwise are faceless. You can show the darkness of their plight and pain; the magnitude of their misery. But you can also shine the light of hope by documenting the kindness of a helpful hand, programs that help those in need, or just a cycle that was broken.

http://www.iamalivetube.com/

HIV and AIDS

Project KengiKat

Do something....that means something...

http://www.projectkengikat.ning.com/

http://www.blog.dosomethingsaturday.org/

POZIAM

Finding Your Comfort Zone

http://www.poziam.com/

Dab The Aids Bear Project

http://www.dabtheaidsbearproject.org/

Bob Bowers