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Employee Spotlight: Lauren Long, BSN, Clinical Director at the Partnership

Meet Lauren Long, BSN, clinical director at the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice.

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HIV and Aging Awareness

September 18 is National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, which highlights HIV among people aged 50 and older. Physicians at the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice help patients with HIV factor the illness into their aging process.

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U=U: Changing Our Understanding of HIV

There was a time when an HIV diagnosis was believed to be a death sentence. However, with the advancement of medication over the years, that is no longer the case. Further, recent studies have found the next best thing to a cure: U=U.

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Employee Spotlight: Brenda Ruiz, RMA, Family Planning Counselor

Meet Brenda Ruiz, RMA, family planning counselor at the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice. In her highly specialized and sensitive role, Brenda provides individual counseling, education, support, and guidance to clients regarding reproductive health options. Brenda helps clients make informed decisions about their health needs, including contraception methods, pregnancy testing, pregnancy prevention, pregnancy choices, sexual health and STI prevention.

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World AIDS Day 2022

In honor of World AIDS Day 2022, December 1, Drexel Medicine's Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice will be tabling at Leon H. Sullivan Charitable Trust and The Spot, providing HIV testing and counseling, free HIV home test kits, HIV prevention information, free condoms and more!

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U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions about U=U, or Undetectable = Untransmittable. U=U is important because it is a message of hope that is empowering to people living with HIV. It means people living with HIV can have a relationship without the fear of transmission.

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Art Connects HIV/AIDS Community

The Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice celebrated 30 years of care with an anniversary art show in late 2023. This collection of work is part of a legacy of using art to make connections and create conversations about HIV/AIDS -- a legacy explored by a National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibit, AIDS, Posters and Stories of Public Health: A People’s History of a Pandemic.

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Philly AIDS Thrift Grant Provides Much Needed Support

The Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice strives to be a comprehensive clinic where patients can get multiple medical needs met in a one-stop-shop format, but did you know that there are many other services offered by our team of case managers? From specialist appointment scheduling to rental and utility assistance, our case managers work with each patient on an individual basis to meet their unique social and emotional needs.

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Researchers Study Pill to Prevent HIV Infection in Couples Wanting to Conceive

For couples wanting to conceive a child when one partner is HIV positive, the options have previously been limited to expensive assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization, or risking HIV transmission through unprotected intercourse. Now researchers at Drexel University College of Medicine are studying patient response to a once daily pill that prevents the spread of HIV infection in couples who are trying to get pregnant.

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Partnership 30th Anniversary Symposium

On Friday, September 22, clinicians, researchers, community outreach professionals, patient advocates, public health officials and guests gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice at a symposium, entitled “The Partnership: Then & Now.”

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What You Need to Know About Monkeypox

Drexel experts offered insights that are cause for both concern and relief, given the rapid spread of this virus and the medical community’s increasing familiarity with it.

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A Year of Hope

Drexel HOPE’s mobile medical unit offers services for opioid use disorder with a multidisciplinary team of providers, peer specialists, and case workers who connect Philadelphians with the care and resources they need. Drexel HOPE is funded through a five-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.

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