AIDS Healthcare Foundation visits Alliance Food and Nutrition Program

Our friends at AIDS Healthcare Foundation, who have supported our work, came to Midtown Central to see our Food and Nutrition Services in action. Food and Nutrition is a basic need, and the way many of our program participants come to find out about—and enroll in—our other programs, like care management, harm reduction, career-readiness and so much more. So we pride ourselves on serving everyone in need with nutritious meals. We welcome friends and partners any time to witness how our different programs help participants achieve positive change.

All photos: David Nager/Alliance

Alliance Goes to Albany to Save Health Homes

On Tuesday February 27, almost 20 Alliance staff and program participants took a pre-dawn bus to Albany to meet with legislators and emphasize how important Health Homes. The program is a care management mechanism for 2,000+ of our participants, and 170,000 people with chronic conditions throughout New York State with chronic conditions. State funding for Health Homes has been cut over the past two years, with an additional $125M cut in 2025 proposed by Governor Hochul.

“Without the Health Homes program, I would not be here,” said Adonis Porch, an Alliance Peer and former program participant who has advocated in Albany on more than five separate occasions.

Condom Distribution and Free Testing at LLOC

On Friday, February 23, we hosted an outreach and education event at LLOC (“The Red Door”) distributing over 100 safer sex kits to passersby, and providing free HIV tests to over 10 community members. Thank you to all our partners who provide the male and female condoms and lube that we put in our safer sex kits.

Many of these condoms come from our friends at ONE Condoms, the makers of the first condoms FDA-approved for anal sex. Thank you, ONE!

The Positive Life Workshop—January 2024

Alliance’s The Positive Life Workshop is a safe, constructive space for people living with HIV/AIDS to discuss treatment adherence and/or engagement in healthcare, who are newly- diagnosed, and/or out-of- medical care. Participants learn how to access health care, cope with stress, partner with their doctor, deal with symptoms and side effects, make decisions about HIV treatment, disclose status to others, practice safer sex, and recognize the effects of drugs and alcohol.

To register for the free workshop, email Ashley.

All photos by David Nager/Alliance. Videography by Kaitlyn Fudge/Alliance.

2023 at Alliance: A Year in Photos

2023 was a great year at Alliance, with the return of our program participant holiday parties and Open House, as well as our PREP graduations, International Overdose Awareness Day, Mammography event, Kiki Ball, and many community building events. Alliance’s Chief Photography Officer David Nager covered so many of these wonderful events, so we are able to share these photos. All taken by David Nager/Alliance