The Banyan Tree Project at Asian Human Services

07/06/2016

Retweeted IPHA ():

Chicago Tribune Article on Budget Impasse Effects on HIV in Illinois (featuring IPHA): https://t.co/PhiUCzotUh

Jeffery Erdman provides comments on budget impasse effects on HIV programs

02/24/2016

Retweeted Lunar Ball ():

Thanks to for being community parter!
Check out their website to learn more: https://t.co/oJVOLyGfMV

01/03/2016

Erasure in remembering the AIDS crisis
http://thenewinquiry.com/features/erasing-black-aids-histories/

12/21/2015

Now gay men can donate blood, but there's a catch, they have to abstain for a year before donation:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/77e034a2ebc14658a48a7f4665560eb5/fda-eases-restrictions-blood-donations-gay-men

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are lifting the nation's 32-year-old lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bis*xual men, but major restrictions will remain on who can donate. Medical groups and gay activists…

12/13/2015

What does race have to do with it?: Talking about AIDS and white privilege

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/opinion/why-are-so-many-black-women-dying-of-aids.html

Research suggests that mass incarceration of black men may be fueling an urgent public health crisis.

11/26/2015

Ask your doctor about Truvada, it could be the beginning of a meaningful conversation about HIV prevention: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/health/many-doctors-unaware-of-truvada-drug-for-preventing-hiv.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com

Federal health officials announced that a third of doctors and nurses have not heard of Truvada, which can prevent H.I.V. infection.

09/28/2015

Thank you so much to everyone who supported the Banyan Tree Team through donations, page sharing, and words of encouragement! Even though the event is over, you can still donate through our team page until October 31st!

The link to our team page is: bit.ly/1KhTwF7

09/22/2015

We're less than a week away from ! If you haven't checked out our team page yet, you can find the link below and on our coverphoto. Please feel free to donate and/or pass the word along!

AIDS Run & Walk Chicago is AFC's grassroots fundraising event where people from all walks of life help change the story of HIV in our lifetime.

08/28/2015

Retweeted Hamdard Center ():

Publication on prevention in Indo-American communities written by Hamdard and
http://t.co/keoECsfFEz

08/10/2015

Thank you so much to for giving us a space to extend our HIV outreach efforts! *x

08/09/2015

A blogpost on s*xual health from LGBT HealthLink featuring our Safer S*x kits during the National Q***r Asian Pacific Islander Alliance conference this weekend: http://blog.lgbthealthlink.org/2015/08/08/naqpia-day-2-s*xual-health-its-more-than-just-condoms/

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