Bridgercare will celebrate World AIDS Day by offering free, confidential rapid HIV tests

Thursday Nov. 14th, 2013

Bridgercare will celebrate World AIDS Day by offering free, confidential rapid HIV tests on the following dates:
·         Monday, December 2nd                 9am-2:30pm  (3-6:30pm TEEN CLINIC)
·         Tuesday, December 3rd                          9am-5:30pm
·         Wednesday, December 4th          9am-5:30pm
·         Thursday, December 5th                10am-5:30pm
·         Friday, December 6th                      9am-5:30pm
·         Saturday, December 7th                         9am-2pm

World AIDS Day events involve millions of people around the globe and is a day of shared global action and awareness held annually on December 1st.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that over one million persons aged 13 years and older are living with HIV infection in the United States.  One in five HIV positive people are unaware of their infection.  In 2011, an estimated 50,000 people were diagnosed with HIV infection in the United States. In that same year, an estimated 32,000 people were diagnosed with AIDS.