The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been steadily advancing its agenda in 2024 with priorities in each organizational focus area: patient safety, workforce development, women's health, senior and long-term care, HIV/AIDS, and te...
Project & Program Updates
Twenty-two outreach workers from 11 HIV service organizations across the Commonwealth gathered in Philadelphia on April 4 for a Minority AIDS Initiative Learning Session facilitated by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. This is the seco...
Hazell Azzer, AIDS Free Pittsburgh's Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator, has been selected as one of Allies for Health and Wellbeing's 2024 Bright Young People. Hazell will be honored at their annual fundraising gala, the Fr...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Aging and HIV/AIDS teams were recently re-credentialed by SAGECare, the training division of the nation's largest advocacy and services organization for LGBTQ+ older adults SAGE. Staff completed onlin...
February 7th is recognized as National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day. This year AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) supported partner organizations with two events over two days. The first event was held on the evening of February 6 at 1Hood Med...
On December 1, AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) with Allies for Health + Wellbeing, TrueT Pgh, and The Q-Munity Center brought together over 130 people for The Category is… Red: A World AIDS Day Event at the Union Project in Highland Park. E...
HIV Providers Share Outreach Strategies to Improve Linkage and Retention in Care across Pennsylvania
Four HIV case managers shared lessons learned over the past decade through implementation of the statewide Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) at an HIV conference hosted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health Division of HIV Disease in G...
Relive Too Hot for July (TH4J), Pittsburgh's only HIV awareness event with this recap video and through interviews with vendors and service providers at the event. Held June 1, the event honors those lost to, living with, and affected ...
AIDS Free Pittsburgh joined dozens of local organizations, officials, and residents at a resource fair at the City-County Building to recognize International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31. Local organizations set up tables where ...
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Ryan White Learning Collaborative held their most recent session on August 15 at JHF, once again bringing together the various case managers and community health workers that serve people living with HIV (...
Too Hot For July, AIDS Free Pittsburgh's (AFP) annual biomedical awareness event, gathered 1,500 community members on June 1 in block party style to recognize, commemorate, and celebrate the communities affected by HIV and raise awaren...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been recognized as a 2023 SAGECare Platinum Credentialed provider for programming to LGBTQ+ older adults. The Aging and HIV/AIDS staff have completed training that provided an overview of the ...
Ken Ho, MD, MPH, a valued member of the JHF Board and an infectious disease specialist, recently received the 2023 Kerry Stoner Award, recognizing his outstanding achievements in HIV/AIDS advocacy. Dr. Ho is the medical director of Pro...
Too Hot for July (TH4J), Pittsburgh's only HIV awareness event, will be held Thursday, June 1, honoring those lost to, living with, and affected by HIV, and to educate the community about advancements in prevention and treatment that c...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's HIV/AIDS Team hosted its Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Learning Session in Pittsburgh on April 25-26, bringing together 22 outreach workers from 11 agencies across the state. The purpose of this sess...
An overview of the AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) program looking at the first five years of the program was accepted for publication in the journal, Sexually Transmitted Diseases. "Getting to Zero in Allegheny County: Implementation of a ...
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Ryan White Learning Collaborative convened at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation on March 15 gathering frontline workers, case managers, and community health workers to network, learn, and vogue. Approximate...
AIDS Free Pittsburgh's Chief Relationship Officer and Project Director Richard Smith, MSW and Ken Ho, MD, MPH, medical director of the Pitt Men's Study and a JHF Board member, were featured on KDKA on March 27 discussing AIDS Free Pitt...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Chief Relationship Officer, Richard C. Smith, MSW and HIV Program Coordinator Christopher Garnett, MSS attended the 2022 United States Conference on HIV/AIDS in San Juan, Puerto Rico Oct. 8-11. The co...
Everyone deserves access to compassionate health care, and few know this as well as Stuart Fisk, CRNP. His life's work has been dedicated to HIV activism, research, prevention, and care for persons living with HIV disease. Fisk's work ...