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ARCA's Mission

To improve the quality and length of life for persons with HIV and viral hepatitis through

  • Treatment research
  • Education for health care providers and patients
  • Access to new therapies

And to PREVENT new HIV infections through

  • Prevention research
  • Prevention education
  • Free HIV/STD testing services

At ARCA, Testing is Free Because of YOU!

Did you know that ARCA offers free HIV testing? Why? Because early diagnosis means early treatment and less spread of infection. You can't benefit from treatment unless you know you have HIV. And having other infections makes it easier to get HIV. Did you know that

  • 21% of persons in the US with HIV do not know they have HIV?
  • Rapid HIV testing means test results are available in less than an hour - with no needle sticks?
  • ARCA offers FREE confidential HIV testing and counseling for African-American men?
  • Over 6000 persons have learned their HIV status from ARCA? Nearly half of them had never been tested before!
  • Every person newly-diagnosed with HIV receives a free CD4 T-cell count to assess how the immune system is doing. ARCA is the only community testing site that offers this test.

We provide personalized risk-reduction counseling, education, and condoms to all participants. We test at ARCA daily and at events in the community by request. ARCA receives NO FUNDS for testing women or men who are not African-American. We need your help to offer services to everyone who needs testing.

ARCA Offers Free Testing Services

Because They Are Needed to Stop This Epidemic
...And Just Because It's the Right Thing to Do!
Will You Help Us To Continue Our Work?

WHAT YOUR MONEY BUYS

$1,500

HIV oral swab rapid test kits for 100 people and confirmatory HIV tests with T-cell counts for 25 people

$1,000

Counseling, education, and HIV testing for 50 walk-in clients

$500

Syphilis testing for 250 people

$100

1000 condoms, educational materials

$50

Counseling, education, safer sex kits & free HIV/STD testing for 1 woman

$25

100 safer sex kits with educational materials and condoms

Knowing YOU helped: PRICELESS!

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