Title

Care with Dignity: Understanding How to Care for HIV Positive and Formerly Incarcerated Populations

Authors

Caroline Komanecky, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical CollegeFollow
Terry Trudeau, MEd, Philadelphia FIGHT (community preceptor)
James D. Plumb, MD, MPH, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
Helen Koenig, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia FIGHT Jonathan Lax CenterFollow

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

2-2015

Abstract

Philadelphia FIGHT is a comprehensive HIV/AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy, and research on potential treatments and vaccines. FIGHT was formed as a partnership of individuals living with HIV/AIDS and clinicians, who joined together to improve the lives of people living with the disease. Today, FIGHT serves an even broader patient population and recently received designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center. FIGHT strives to address not only HIV-infected patients, but all at-risk populations through education, outreach, and preventative medicine. The annual Bridging the Gaps interns are responsible for several projects, including a client satisfaction survey, a “Faces of FIGHT” client portrait project, and this year, a project on incarceration health for FIGHT’s new HIV-negative clinic, the John Bell Health Center.

Recommended Citation

Komanecky, Caroline; Trudeau, MEd, Terry; Plumb, MD, MPH, James D.; and Koenig, MD, Helen, "Care with Dignity: Understanding How to Care for HIV Positive and Formerly Incarcerated Populations" (2015). CwiC-PH. Poster 46.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/ph/46