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www.mac-boston.org  The Multicultural AIDS Coalition is the oldest Minority AIDS Service Organization in New England.  Since 1988, the MAC has provided the Boston Metropolitan Area with a range of programs to fight HIV & AIDS:

www.mass.gov/dph  Welcome to The Massachusetts Department of Public Health Web site! We are dedicated to our mission, to serve all the people in the Commonwealth, particularly the under served, and to promote healthy people, healthy families, healthy communities and healthy environments through compassionate care, education and prevention. Your health is our concern.

www.bphc.org  Welcome to the Boston Public Health Commission website.  Our mission is to protect, promote, and preserve the health and well-being of all Boston residents, particularly the most vulnerable.

www.dimock.org  Dimock Community Health Center is an important community institution serving Boston's inner city neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester and Jamaica Plain. Located in the heart of the Egleston Square section of Roxbury, Dimock provides vital services to over 40,000 families each year and is an important community asset for the entire City of Boston. Dimock is considered a national model of integrated comprehensive health and human services.
 

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8fhyn Women's Voices Women's Lives is a documentary of four African American women living with HIV disease. This powerful film is utilized with a four week curriculum geared for African American women, but is suitable for groups of any race or background - the message is you can make positive choices to protect your health and your future as women at risk or as women infection with HIV disease.



http://webwork.bc.edu:8082/schools/son/research/hiv-aids.html  Boston College, in partnership with Sistah Powah, a grassroots community initiative of older women living with HIV/AIDS, and Women of Color AIDS Council/Women Connecting and Affecting Change (WCAC), a well-established HIV/AIDS prevention center for women is expanding a successful HIV/AIDS education prevention program geared to older African American women living with HIV/AIDS in addition to obtaining ethnic-specific data on how best to approach prevention for seropositive, poor, older African American women in the inner city of Boston.  
 

www.blackaids.org  The Black AIDS Institute is the first Black HIV/AIDS policy center dedicated to reducing HIV/AIDS health disparities by mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront the epidemic in their communities.  Our motto describes a commitment to self-preservation: "Our People, Our Problem, Our Solution."  

www.casamyrna.org  A group dedicated to ending domestic violence through intervention and prevention.

www.wshc.org  We offer many comprehensive services above and beyond what you may expect from a neighborhood health center. Our eye, dental, and general medicine departments are superb, and we offer specialized services to populations normally undeserved by the medical community. Visit any of our primary care or social services programs and you see the positive impact and quality of our services.

www.bostonabcd.org

Action for Boston Community Development is Boston's anti poverty agency, serving more than 100,000 low-income Greater Boston residents through its city-wide network of neighborhood-based organizations. ABCD provides innovative, timely programs that promote upward mobility and a higher quality of life for people and communities.



www.roxmulti.org
To define and continuously expand the art of building family and community through quality programs, services and partnerships. 


http://www.churchline.net/healingourland/main.htm
Healing Our Land

Mission

"Healing Our Land", a series of quarterly forums for Christian leaders, laity, and those infected/affected by HIV, will facilitate ongoing networks, dialogue, training and collective action to achieve effective AIDS prevention and healing ministries. "Healing Our Land" is meant to be a church driven effort to develop spiritually-based health programming, particularly targeting youth, and establish healing ministries for those infected with HIV and other diseases. We, the people of God, are the only ones equipped to do His will on earth as it is in heaven. 

http://www.bmc.org/patients/locations.html

Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center is located in Boston's Historic South End at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Harrison Avenue. For directions to the medical center, view our transportation page. You can also view an on-line campus map. 
Boston HealthNet Health Centers
Boston Medical Center has also partnered with Boston University School of Medicine and 15 community health centers to deliver care directly in many of Boston's neighborhoods. The list to the right includes the Boston HealthNet health center locations. For more information about Boston HealthNet and the services it provides, view our Boston HealthNet site.

http://www.elizabethstonehouse.org/
Elizabeth Stone House

The Elizabeth Stone House (ESH) is a community based mental health program, providing both residential and non-residential services. It is an environment where families heal; women grow, and reclaim control over all of the decisions which affect their lives.



 
Women of Color AIDS Council, Inc. (WCAC)
Women Connecting Affecting Change
409 Blue Hill Avenue
Dorchester, MA 02121
Phone: 617-541-1050 or Fax: 617-541-1060
Email: wcac@comcast.net


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