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 (...
Project & Program Updates
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 ...
There are over 3,000 people living with HIV in southwestern Pennsylvania, and AIDS Free Pittsburgh is committed to ensuring care is available and eliminating the spread of new cases. In a broad marketing campaign for HIV services in th...
Community, civic, and public health stakeholders gathered in-person and virtually to discuss the current state of HIV in Pittsburgh and generate a dialogue for Pittsburgh's next steps in addressing barriers, gaps, and health inequities...
After a two-year hiatus, Too Hot For July, Pittsburgh's only HIV Biomedical Awareness Event, made its triumphant in-person return on June 2 outside KLVN Coffee Lab in Larimer. Hosted by AIDS Free Pittsburgh in partnership with True T P...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) HIV/AIDS program has been awarded over $10 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA DOH) for the 2022–2023 fiscal year, which will be used to improve the quality of and access to m...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is seeking proposals from interested and qualified agencies to provide services for those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS through two Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Proposals should address p...
PITTSBURGH, PA (November 30, 2021) – On November 18, Mayor Bill Peduto designated Pittsburgh as a Fast-Track City, making Pittsburgh the latest and only city in Pennsylvania to join a global network committed to ending the HIV epidemic...
On November 18, Mayor Bill Peduto designated Pittsburgh as a Fast-Track City, making Pittsburgh the latest member of a global network of over 300 U.S. cities and municipalities committed to ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. Through the ...
In October, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation welcomed Emma Seagle, MPH, the new program officer working with the HIV/AIDS team to support JHF's Ryan White Part B contract, the statewide Minority AIDS Initiative, and AIDS Free Pittsburg...
On June 26, public health initiative AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) participated in Millvale's inaugural, volunteer-driven PRIDE event. This was the first outreach table that AFP hosted since COVID-19 cases were identified in the U.S. AFP ...