Harlem United Community AIDS Center provides assistance and expertise to persons living with or at risk for AIDS or HIV-related illnesses and provides housing for homeless persons living with AIDS or HIV-related illnesses.

Description and/or History:
Harlem United Community AIDS Center is a community-based organization providing a unique continuum of care.

We integrate socially and economically disenfranchised people into a healthy and healing community. We also offer our clients access to a full range of medical, social, and supportive services. The majority of our clients are people living with HIV/AIDS whose diagnoses are often complicated by addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. Many have also faced significant barriers to care due to poverty, race, HIV status, and sexual or gender identity.

Our “one-stop shop” for services allows Harlem United to treat the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—in a compassionate and supportive environment. Our staff work in partnership with our clients at each stage of care: HIV testing; treatment and education; primary medical care; substance use counseling; mental health services; pastoral counseling; and an array of expressive therapies. Through our comprehensive model of care, clients learn to become their own advocates and acquire a new sense of well-being and independence.

Contact people:

David Lopez, Director, Uptown Healthlink, (212) 289-2378, (email) Sara Gillen, Vice President, (212) 289-2378 x239, (email)

Address:

290 Lenox Avenue Lower Level New York, NY 10027 (See a map)

Directions:

Take the 2 or 3 train and off at the 125th Street station.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: 2 or 3 train,   Walk distance (in minutes): 1   Nearest Bus Stop: M07, 1 minute walk