Deon Haywood, Executive Director of the New Orleans-based Women With A Vision, Inc, will receive the 2015 Kiyoshi Kuromiya Award at the AIDS Education Month’s Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony on June 2nd!
June 2016 will mark the 22nd year that Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted AIDS Education Month (AEM). Events to educate, strategize, and strengthen. Register Now!
FIGHTers LaDonna Boyens and Benjamin Green are featured in POZ Magazine’s cover story “Straight Talk.” The article discusses HIV peer education programs in and out of prisons. Staffer Ben is also the cover star this month!
Philadelphia FIGHT, Caring People Alliance, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia will celebrate National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day with a community health fair. We’d love to see you there!
Thanks to everyone who helped make our 20th anniversary celebration a hit! We raised over $43,000 to support FIGHT’s Youth Health Empowerment Project (Y-HEP)!
During her time as the director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs, Gloria brought her fierce commitment to justice and equity for the LGBTQ community to city government and shifted the definition of that community to more clearly include people of color, women, and transgender persons. No one before Gloria was able to raise…
On December 1, 2014, FIGHT’s Office of Faith Initiatives held the Sixth Annual World AIDS Day Prayer Breakfast. This year’s event featured Rev. Dr. Leslie Callahan, pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church, as the Keynote Speaker.
Philadelphia FIGHT’s Institute for Community Justice (ICJ) and Eastern State Penitentiary are teaming up to collect new, unwrapped toys or clothing to benefit the children of our recently released and currently incarcerated participants.
Thank you to all the supporters of the 2014 FIGHT for Life Gala.
Philadelphia FIGHT will present the Sixth Annual World AIDS Day Prayer Breakfast on Monday, December 1, 2014 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 237 S. Broad St, Philadelphia.
Jaci was an unparalleled leader in the Philadelphia transgender community, and her impact on the recognition and rights of trans people in our city was enormous. Born into nightmarish circumstances, gone from home while still a child, living on the streets and surviving however she could, Jaci nevertheless rose above all of it to lead…
FIGHT created this video to honor and remember Kiyoshi Kuromiya in the 10th anniversary of his death, during the 2010 AIDS Education Month. Directed By Alfredo SosaProduced By Mark Seaman2010 © Mighty Head Entertainment/Philadelphia FIGHT.All Rights Reserved.
“Half of your rights haven’t been written yet, because you haven’t been here to demand them.” John Bell was an HIV activist, mentor to a generation of ex-offenders, teacher, and our friend. In the years we were privileged to know him, we watched in awe as John took his lived experiences of racism, stigma, war,…
John L. Turner MD, was Philadelphia FIGHT’s founding Principal Investigator. John was one of the first physicians, and among the only openly gay physicians, to come forward to treat HIV in the earliest years of the epidemic. His practice provided comfort and solace, but most importantly, hope, for people living with HIV, at a time…
Founder of Project Inform, Martin came to Philadelphia many times over the years to present lifesaving information and hope to people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies. The following is the announcement sent out by Project Inform: “It is with profound sadness that Project Inform announces the passing this morning of our Founder, Martin Delaney….
Rebecca brought many strengths to the Lax Center in the years she was our nurse manager, and she was loved by patients and staff alike. We extend our deepest condolences to her husband Dennis Barnebey, and to all her family. While Rebecca worked at FIGHT she contributed these thoughts to our website: “I joined FIGHT…
Philadelphia FIGHT has been selected to become a BenePhilly Center. Effective immediately, any Philadephia resident can come to our AIDS Library and meet with a BenePhilly counselor to apply for public benefits.
Check out this feature story about PrEP and FIGHT’s I Am Men’s Health Program on FOX29!
Philadelphia FIGHT joins the International AIDS Community and the world in mourning the deaths of AIDS researchers and activists on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down over Ukraine on July 17, 2014. We quote here the words of Ellen LaPointe, our colleague in the old AmFAR clinical research network which was the network that led…
FIGHT’s Institute for Community Justice partners with Eastern State Penitentiary to provide toys for children of our incarcerated participants. Donate a toy December 10 – 15 in exchange for “Buy One, Get One Free” admission to ESP. One in 28 American kids has a parent behind bars. This holiday season, an estimated 30,000 children in…
The Faith Advisory Board of Philadelphia FIGHT invite you, your family, and members of your faith community to join us for our annual World AIDS Day Prayer Breakfast, Saturday morning November 30, 2013 at the Radisson Blu-Warwick Hotel, 220 S. 17th Street 8-10 a.m. Over 30,000 people live with HIV in Philadelphia. What does this mean…
