27 Years supporting one of the Southern Tier's most vulnerable populations

The AIDS Ride for Life, now in its 28th year, brings people together from all different communities, states and countries in support of the Southern Tier AIDS Program (STAP) which serves communities in eight different counties in the Southern Tier. Here's just some of the work that STAP does in Broome, Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Otsego, and Delaware Counties:

Client Services

HIV/AIDS Support Services; Housing, Ryan White Care Management
Health Homes of Upstate NY Services; medical linkage services for qualified folks with two or more chronic health conditions.
Health Homes Supported Housing for folks unstably housed
HIV Education & Treatment Adherence
Housing Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Prevention Services

Syringe Exchange (mobile unit in Cortland and Elmira, Ithaca, Norwich, and Johnson City SEP offices)
Narcan Overdose Prevention Training to local businesses, communities, schools, and groups. 24/7 Access to Naloxone at 314 W State Street.
STI Testing Services (Chlamydia, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, HEP-C, and HIV)
Monkeypox (MPOX) Program - Education & Outreach Services
Criminal Justice Initiative - Prevention Education within NYS Prisons.
Identity Youth Program, LGBTQ+ & Allies safe space and drop-in center in Binghamton, NY
Drug Checking program to help identify dangerous chemicals in the local drug supply. Done via Mass spectrometer in both Ithaca and JC offices.

The AIDS Ride for Life is STAP's biggest fundraising event of the year, money raised at this event fills funding gaps in many of these amazing services!

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