Apicha Community Health Center - Celebrating a Milestone of 25 Years of Service
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Apicha Community Health Center - Celebrating a Milestone of 25 Years of Service
Formerly named Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Apicha CHC was founded in 1989 to address unmet HIV/AIDS-related needs of Asians and Pacific Islanders in New York City.
Our founders worked with Native American leaders to disaggregate “Asians and Pacific Islanders” and “Native Americans” from an “Other” category in HIV/AIDS surveillance data. Their successful advocacy opened the doors to government and private funding streams that enabled us to build a continuum of HIV/AIDS services, starting with prevention education and outreach to HIV primary care.