New York Get Tested! Hotline:
718-881-TEST (718-881-8378)

Counseling, Testing and Care Sites:

Campaign sites provide a range of services to youth including check-ups, general health care, birth control, and free HIV counseling and testing during Get Tested! Week. These programs are for all youth-straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. All services are completely confidential and many do not require parental consent. Health care services are either free or on a sliding scale and Medicaid as well as many health insurance plans are accepted.

For HIV-positive youth, these health care programs provide ongoing medical care including viral load and immune system monitoring, medications, and counseling and support services. The program also provides help with insurance, housing, education and opportunities to participate in research.

The following adolescent and community health clinics participate in New York's "HIV. Live with it. Get Tested!" campaign. Call citywide 718-881-TEST for information about referral sites including:

BRONX

Adolescent R.E.P. Program at Montefiore
3332 Rochambeau Avenue
(Centennial Building)
Main Floor, Suite B
Bronx, NY
718-882-0023
Testing conducted Thursdays, 1 - 4:30pm. Call to arrange appointments at other times.

Health and Education Alternatives for Teens
718-467-4446

MANHATTAN

Adolescent Initiative Program
212-305-1189

GMHC,The David Geffen Center
212 367 1056

Project STAY at Columbia
212-342-3208

NYU Bellvue Hospital Center, TOPS
212-263-8973

St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center, KAYAC
212-523-6305

William F. Ryan Community Health Center, SHOUT
212 769 7269

QUEENS

Queens Health Network
718 334 3834

STATEN ISLAND

Staten Island University Hospital
718-226-6532

CITYWIDE

Planned Parenthood
212-965-7000

Hetrick Martin Institute for Gay and Lesbian Youth
212-674-2600

Covenant House Crisis Center
212-613-0300

Community Healthcare Network
718-991-9250

NY Department of Health, STD Control Program
212-427-5120

Campaign Calendar of Events:

OCTOBER

Youth lead outreach resumes
10/18 third youth training/meeting
10/24 Conference for NYC Youth and their providers

NOVEMBER

Extensive outreach continues
Outposted testing begins
Radio ads up
Subway ads up
Billboards up

DECEMBER

12/1 - GET TESTED WEEK begins
12/1 - Montefiore event
12/1 - Hispanic AIDS Memorial event
12/1 - Benefit concert at the Beacon Theater sponsored by LIFEbeat
12/1-12/9 - Program-Based and Outposted Testing
12/11-12/16 - Outposted results

Contacts:

Project Address:

Project ACCESS
c/o Adolescent AIDS Program, Montefiore Medical Center
111 East 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467
718-882-0232 tel
718-882-0432 fax

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
Donna Futterman, MD
futterma@aecom.yu.edu

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Gabriel Stover
718-882-0232 ext. 220
gabrielns@myself.com

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Susan Wolfson
Sensei Masterful Health Communications
355 West 52nd Street, Third Floor
New York, New York 10019
212-581-2770 tel
212-247-5724 fax
swolfson@senseihealth.com