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Counseling, Testing and Care Sites:

Outreach Partners: Peer education and outreach groups participating in the Campaign. Many are accepting new participants, so call if you want to join a program, or learn more about their activities.

Latin American Youth Center
Christina Encina ·
(202) 319-2261
www.layc-dc.org
LAYC attracts individuals from across the city to its diverse programs (including academics, health, employment, social services and the arts).
LAYC's programs help youth develop critical thinking and leadership skills, and to address cultural differences and difficult social issues.
The LAYC vision is of a world with strong youth in strong families with strong futures.
Our mission is to support youth and families in their determination to live, work and study with dignity, hope and joy.
The Teen Health Promoters program trains youth to provide peer education and support to the teenage clients of two community health clinics.

Metro TeenAIDS
Metro TeenAIDS' mission is to prevent HIV infection among young people and improve the quality of life for those already infected with the virus.
MTA works to empower and educate at-risk youth through information and programs that empower teens to make healthy decisions, heighten their self-esteem and improve their self-efficacy.
The New School Activists use rap, poetry, dance and other creative methods to promote healthy decision-making.
Lori Swain
(202) 543-9355
www.metroteenaids.org

Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry (NOVAM)
NOVAM provides services to meet the needs of those living with HIV/AIDS, educate the community about HIV/AIDS and combat the fear and prejudice that surround the disease.
NOVAM works in collaboration with schools, youth-serving agencies and youth to provide a peer-developed and -delivered approach that helps change young people's understanding of risk and behavior.
NOVAM negotiates with sites and parents to support peer education activity, provides staff support to prepare peer educators and helps ensure access to services such as counseling and testing.
Lesley Buchan
(703) 746-0440 ext. 20

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington (PPMW) exists to support and protect the right and responsibility of every individual to make informed reproductive choices.
PPMW pursues its mission through service by providing medical care, counseling, training and direct education; and through advocacy by seeking to influence public opinion and public policy, including the policies and practices of both government and private institutions.
Stacey Little-Pyfrom
www.plannedparenthood.org
(202) 347-8500

Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL)
A youth service agency serving the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, including Maryland and Northern Virginia, SMYAL's mission is to support and enhance the self-esteem of sexual minority youth and to increase public awareness and understanding of their issues. Sexual minority youth includes any young person aged 13-21 who is lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender (LGBTQ), or who may be questioning their sexuality. SMYAL is always striving to increase the scope and quality of our services and to provide a safer future for youth who self-identify as LGBTQ, and for the friends and families of these young people.
SMYAL's Youth Center includes a lending library, computer lab, group rooms, backyard and a resource area with information on topics ranging from safer sex and substance abuse to nutrition and civic action.
Tracee Ford
(202) 546-5940
www.smyal.org

Teens Against the Spread of AIDS
Teens Against the Spread of AIDS (TASA) is a project of Children's National Medical Center. TASA is an educational theater group made up of local high school students. TASA members use interactive and dramatic exercises to creatively reach their peers with health education messages and programs.
Irene Addlestone
(202) 884-5449

Washington DC Public School's HIV/AIDS Education Program
The Program supports school health education through a planned comprehensive framework for promoting health by preventing sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancies. The Program monitors, coordinates and evaluates HIV/AIDS related programs; provides professional development trainings, instructional support, references, referrals and technical support for school-based activities; encourages youth and parental involvement; and creates networks to promote HIV/AIDS prevention education.
Linda Wright
(202) 889-4467

Whitman Walker Clinic
Whitman-Walker Clinic is a non-profit, volunteer-based, lesbian and gay community health organization serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Our volunteers and staff are dedicated to providing or facilitating the delivery of high quality, comprehensive, and accessible health care services. Our services are directed to all gay men and lesbians. We are proud of the Clinic's substantial contribution in the fight against AIDS. Our historic commitment to accessible health care moves us also to share our programs with anyone in need of HIV-related services.
George Swales
(202) 939-7879
www.wwc.org

Contacts:

Program Address:

Project ACCESS
Children's National Medical Center
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010

202-884-3630 fax

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Lawrence D'Angelo, MD
ldangelo@cnmc.org

YOUTH AND HOTLINE QUESTIONS:

Youth Coordinator (202) 543-9355
info@metroteenaids.com

ADMINISTRATION/LOGISTICS:
Susan Flinn (202) 667-1624
susan@oxygenate.com

MEDIA INQUIRIES:
Jeff Travers (202) 332-2303
jeff@highnooncommunications.com

HIV/AIDS in the area:

Teens and HIV

In the U.S.

Half of the 40,000 new HIV infections each year are among people under 25. Two young Americans become infected with HIV every hour.
HIV infection rates are growing faster among adolescent women than any other group.

In the District of Columbia

District adolescents suffer the highest rate of HIV infection in the nation.

From 1996 to 1997, there was a 60% increase in the number of AIDS cases among DC's adolescent females and a 45% increase among adolescent males.

The area had the fourth-highest number of new AIDS cases reported of any metropolitan region in the country during 1999 (1,529)

Washington's AIDS rate is 32.3 per 100,000 individuals - 11th highest of any U.S. metropolitan area with a population over 500,000.

There have been over 12,000 cumulative AIDS cases reported in Washington, DC. AIDS is the leading cause of death among White men, African American men and African American women aged 25-44 in the City.
Because of the long latency period, it is believed that many of these individuals were originally infected in their teens and early 20's.
In the District of Columbia, 88 percent of the AIDS cases reported during 1998 were among African Americans.

In Maryland

Maryland has the third highest adolescent HIV infection rates in the country; 5.2 percent of the AIDS cases are among 13-24 year olds.

5.2% of AIDS cases in Prince George's County are among 13-24 year-olds.

In Prince George's County, over 97 percent of AIDS cases among males reported in 1998 -- and over 89 percent of cases among females -- were among African Americans.

In Virginia

Virginia has the fifth highest rate of HIV infection among males 16-21.

150 13-24 year-olds have been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS in Alexandria and Arlington County.

In Northern Virginia, over 50 percent of new AIDS cases are among African Americans.




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