HIV Awareness

Mark was only 12 when he started drinking alcohol to excess, smoking weed, and taking pills. Not long after he began shooting heroin, mimicking what the older people around him...

Professor Alexis Roth of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health leads the TIARAS study, hosted at Prevention Point Philadelphia. The goal of the study is to see whether a brief...

“Patients come to PPP and they’re treated with respect and love and they can get the care that they need no matter what. I think that has a huge impact.” Dr. Jessica Meisner is the...

Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP) was founded in 1992 as an emergency response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Philadelphia. Since then, treatment has come a long way, and so have PPP...

Nicole (“Nicky”) Adams, she/her, is a Mobile STEP Case Manager at PPP. She supports patients in starting medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), like Suboxone and Sublocade...

We recently received this note from Easha, a participant in the Drexel Trauma Intervention to Optimize PrEP Among Women Who Inject Drugs (TIARAS) program and resident of PPP’s...

Left to right: Kerry Miley, Erin McDowell, and Tamica Matos of the TIARAS program. In honor of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we are featuring Drexel University’s...

Kenny doesn’t think he would be alive today if not for Prevention Point Philadelphia, most importantly his case worker. “If it wasn’t for Amy, I wouldn’t be here in this place. And...

Rebecca Hosey The Philadelphia Department of Public Health recently sent out a notice detailing information all of us at Prevention Point Philadelphia (PPP) already knew—more folks...

Hilary Disch Despite massive progress in HIV and AIDS prevention, education, and treatment over the past 30 years, this virus continues to have a disproportional impact on certain...