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PrEPare for Life

This guide is to train AIDS service providers, case managers, and peer educators on evidence-based information about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as part of comprehensive HIV prevention in order to support their efforts to educate young men that have sex with men (MSM), in particular, young Black and Latino MSM on the new prevention strategy.

Hepatitis C in Texas

This information sheet discusses hepatitis C, how it's spread, co-infection with HIV, statistics of hepatitis C in Texas, how it's prevented, how it's treated, and the cost of treatment.

Tuberculosis Facts - Exposure to TB

This information sheet provides general information about TB is, how someone can be exposed and how to test for TB. It explains that TB is spread through the air after someone with TB disease sneezes, coughs, speaks, laughs, or sings. Latent TB infection is when TB germs live in the body without making the individual sick. If the germs become active, they cause TB disease. The two tests used to help detect TB are the skin test and a special TB blood test. Other tests include chest X-ray and sputum test.

Say Yes to the HIV Test We're Asking Everyone. It's the Law.

This pamphlet provides key facts about the HIV testing law in New York. Although health care providers are now required to offer an HIV test to everyone aged 13-64, testing is still voluntary and anonymous testing is available in certain locations. Topics in the pamphlet include: key facts to know before getting an HIV test; HIV testing is especially important for pregnant women; if you test positive for HIV; if you test negative for HIV; why you may need to be re-tested for HIV; you still have to protect yourself from HIV infection; and if you have sex and if you shoot drugs.