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Take Charge. Get Tested.™ Event Results

Hundreds of Atlantans participated in the 2008 Take Charge. Get Tested.™ Event 's food, fun, and festivities. Staff from Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services and volunteers were on hand to provide confidential HIV testing. (Click here to view an HIV screening process.) Two hundred and sixty-four (264) participants received a free rapid HIV test and harm reduction counseling. We attribute the unprecedented number of young individuals self-reported to have been tested for the first time to the live broadcast of V-103 radio personality, Porsche Foxx and WSB-TV Channel 2 media sponsorship.

Our Results

During the 2008 Take Charge. Get Tested.™ Event, health fair participants received male and female HIV prevention tools, materials, and literature. (Click here for HIV screening results.)

• 51% of attendees were male
• 90% stated that they intended to be tested
• 81.3% stated that their interest in HIV was increased
  by the 2008 Take Charge. Get Tested.™ Event

Rapid HIV Test Procedure:  The HIV Screening test is simple, fast, easy, and private.

Step 1: Client Gives Informed Consent	Step 2: Screener Explains HIV Test Procedure	Step 3: Client Collects Oral Sample	Step 4: Results in Only 20 Minutes!

Rapid HIV Test Participant Results:  A record number of participants reported to have never been tested for HIV prior to the 2008 Take Charge. Get Tested.™ Event. Participants ages ranged from 16 (youngest) to 72 (oldest).

HIV testing occurred from 9:00pm to 7:00 pm.

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Exhibitors


  
AARP  •  Amerigroup Community Care  •  Bristol-Myers Squibb  •  CDC's Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
CDC's NPIN  •  Atlanta Fire Station No. 6  •  Empowerment Resource Center  •  Feminist Women's Health Center
Fulton County Department of Health & Wellness •  Home But Not Alone  •  Sam's Club
SCLC W.O.M.E.N., Inc.  •  Southview Cemetery Association  •  Spirit of Sweet Auburn


Empowerment Resource Center (ERC) is a non-profit organization, with 501C3 status, which develops policies and strategies, directly delivers programs, and generates solutions to societal and community issues in the areas of health, education, and economic development.

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