Staff from the Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine’s Peter Krueger Clinic Care Coordination Program distributed giveaways and HIV information and provided HIV testing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel.
In honor of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, December 1, the Mount Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine teamed with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis to present “World AIDS Day: Focus on the Transgender Community” at Mount Sinai West. The event featured speaker Octavia Y. Lewis, MPA, Patient Services Manager, Community Healthcare Network, and a performance by Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris and the musical group Loose Cattle. Among other activities: information booths and HIV testing were available at Mount Sinai West and at the Peter Krueger Clinic at Mount Sinai Beth Israel; The Mount Sinai Hospital distributed literature on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), and other HIV-related material; and the Mount Sinai Comprehensive Health Program-Downtown conducted additional HIV testing.