June 27th, National HIV Testing Day -A Look at D.C.

On Saturday, June 27^th National HIV Testing Day took place in D.C. with many sites for people to go and get tested. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s (AHF) Magic Johnson HIV Testing Caravan arrived in Washington, DC, after a successful, three-week, fourteen-city cross-country HIV testing tour that took the group through several hard-hit Southern US cities and states to raise awareness about the importance — and ease — of HIV testing. Throughout the tour, testing counselors on the caravan working in conjunction with respected local community partners, performed over 500 free, rapid HIV tests. The HIV testing caravan culminated with its arrival in Washington with two free HIV testing events set for Saturday, June 27^th, and Sunday, June 28^th. Free testing, which I participated in, took place at the Caribbean Festival from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday (Banneker Recreation Park, 2500 Georgia Avenue, NW) and on Saturday in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of Ward 8 (4226 4^th Street, SE, Washington DC 20032, cross street: Chesapeake) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. to raise awareness about HIV testing, prevention and treatment through specific testing events and community outreach in

And throughout the course of the 4,220-mile, three-week cross-country HIV testing tour, HIV testing counselors and AHF staffers will supplied a steady stream of updates, videos and images via new media: YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter postings from along the route, interviews with local partners, government officials and, when appropriate and available, interviews with people who were tested on the mobile unit.

• http://www.youtube.com/aidshealth
• http://www.facebook/people/Aidshealth-Care/
• http://www.twitter.com/freehivtest
• http://www.myspace.com/aidshealth
• http://www.freehivtest.net/testingusa

Also, click the link below for HIV/AIDS Data through December 2006 Provided for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act of 2006, for Fiscal year 2008:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2009supp_vol14no1/default.htm

"National HIV Testing Day: An Epidemic in our Nation's Capitol": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-blumenthal/national-hiv-testing-day_b_109717.html