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The Points of Health Project (PHP) is a prevention and education program of the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF) in collaboration with the Pima County Health Department and other community partners. The goals of PHP are to reduce substance abuse, HIV and hepatitis among Latino and African American men who have sex with men (MSM) and Latino and African American jail/prison re-entry men who reside in the Tucson metropolitan area.
In a series of group workshops and social activities that will focus on prevention, education, communication and interpersonal skills, participants will have an opportunity to:
- Foster a positive self-identity
- Build or rebuild positive self-esteem
- Learn and practice assertiveness skills
- Realize what personal wellness really is
- Discover what it really means to have personal and social responsibilities
- Develop positive and healthy personal relationships
- Promote resiliency
- Be accountable to self and others
- More about HIV, what it is and what is not
- Their HIV status
- Where to go for medical care
- How to reduce this risks of getting infected or transmitting the virus to others
- How to have meaningful conversations with partners about HIV, substance abuse and hepatitis
- Where to go for help and support
- They are not alone
- With responses to environmental and peer pressures around substance use
- With interpersonal relationships in a positive way
- With the real consequences of their behaviors
- With their on-going sobriety in a positive and supportive environment
- With the responsibilities of making decisions that can impact the rest of their lives
- Their risk for hepatitis infection
- The difference between hepatitis A, B and C
- How hepatitis is transmitted
- Why it is important to get tested for hepatitis
- Where to go to get tested for hepatitis
- More about treatment options
- How to prevent getting infected or infecting others
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