Prism Health North Texas
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Mission Statement
Empowered by donors like you, Prism Health North Texas combats HIV/AIDS in North Texas by providing health care to those with the disease and preventing its spread. Prism Health North Texas serves over 3,000 impacted people a year with medical care, case management, and support services and another 12,000 youth and adults who are at high risk of contracting the disease. For every person you help prevent infection of HIV, you save the community $357,142 in health care costs. In addition, patients who are adherent to their medication treatment reduce the risk of transmission to others by as much as 96%. 80%+ of Prism Health North Texas patients maintain a suppressed viral load. This far exceeds the national average of 25%!
About This Cause
Prism Health North Texas is the largest nonprofit HIV/AIDS service organization in North Texas, serving over 12,000 at-risk and HIV-infected individuals every year. We offer a host of programs and services for both individuals at risk for becoming infected with HIV and those living with the disease. Our mission is to combat HIV and AIDS in the community by improving the lives and health of individuals living with the disease and preventing its spread. Our services are medical, social service, prevention, and education and are geared to compassionately respond to this mission in cost effective ways. HIV is reaching crisis levels in our community with over 20,000 people living with the disease in North Texas today. While the disease still hits hardest the poor, gay men and ethnic minorities, today we all know someone living with the financial, emotional and physical challenges of HIV. They are our family members, our co-workers, our neighbors, our friends – people we all care about. Yet the toxic and isolating stigma of HIV remains alive along with prevalent attitudes that HIV/AIDS is a disease of choice and so “someone else’s problem” or worse, not a problem at all. Yet HIV continues to cost our community and our clients millions of dollars each year in emergency room and inpatient care, lost employment and productivity, and rising health insurance and disability premiums. This economic cost equals the personal loss thousands of North Texans experience every year as they endure the emotional and physical toll of the disease. HIV and AIDS are not “their” problem – It is our problem; one we must all work together to solve in positive, creative and cost effective ways Prism Health North Texas is here to help those living with HIV with hope, compassion, and care, while also employing evidence-based interventions in the community to stop its spread. Our job is not to blame or point fingers – Our job is to respond to the problems HIV creates for individuals, families and our entire community, and do so in a responsible and empathetic way. Our activities, in collaboration with many other service organizations and public health entities, are aggressively combating HIV and its effects. We cannot accomplish our mission alone. We need your help. Please call us today to donate your time, dollars or expertise. Someone you know needs your help. Help us help them – Help us help our community. Help us combat the impact of HIV and AIDS.