Cambridge Cares About AIDS

Cambridge Cares About AIDS is listed in Central Square, and the listing now describes AIDS Action, New England’s largest provider of services to people living with HIV and AIDS and to people at risk of infection. AIDS Action goes beyond handing out safer sex kits and HIV medications, taking a comprehensive approach that combines prevention, care and face-to-face work with the people most affected by HIV.

Since 2013, AIDS Action has been part of Fenway Health, which serves its neighborhoods, the LGBTQIA+ community, people living with HIV and the broader population. AIDS Action leads the state’s Getting to Zero Coalition, which aims for zero new HIV diagnoses, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero stigma. It also runs a needle exchange and overdose prevention program that connects people who use drugs with health care, and it is expanding its work on hepatitis C.

What to Know

• AIDS Action works directly with about one in six people diagnosed with HIV in Massachusetts.
• New HIV diagnoses in Massachusetts have fallen 52 percent since 1999.
• Patients can fill prescriptions at Fenway Pharmacy for more coordinated care.
• Fenway Health uses the Epic MyChart system for patient access.