FIGHT offers AIDS Education Month Community Presentations to the Philadelphia community June 1st- 30th. Trained FIGHT staff and Peer Educators will bring an HIV presentation to local agencies, churches and community groups. Last year nearly 100 presentations reached over 2,360 individuals!
This year our community presentations will focus on “HIV Myths and Misunderstandings: Finding and Assessing Health Information.” Participants will learn the basics of HIV prevention, transmission, and treatment while learning how to find accurate HIV related health information on-line, including, how to tell reliable health information from myth.
Community Presentations will be available at Public Computing Centers, through Mobile Computer Labs at community sites, and through presenter led lectures at organizations throughout the city.
Reasons to have an AEM Community Presentation:
- New estimates cite that 30,000 people in the city of Philadelphia are infected with HIV.
- Your clients, residents, participants or community members might be at risk of infection, and you want to provide them with information to keep them safer.
- Your staff can use information from the workshop to better serve the communities you work in.
- Presentations can be tailored to the specific needs of your agency.
- If your organization would like us to come out multiple times for different audiences, we will.
Participants will be able to:
- Understand how HIV/AIDS is transmitted
- Prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS and discuss risk reduction practices for everyone
- Separate myth from fact
- Learn to find health information and learn what information they can trust.
- Gain Valuable computer skills.