For more than 40 years, your Sacramento LGBT Community Center has supported the health and wellness of the most marginalized. We understand there is increasing concern amid the Monkey Pox outbreak, and we want to assure you that the health and safety of our clients, staff, and community are [...]
Sexual Health Services The Sacramento LGBT Community Center makes STI and HIV testing more accessible with its at-home testing kits. The Center's Health Services Department expanded their at-home testing to include Gonorrhea and Chlamydia testing. The testing process is easy, the tests themselves are free, and the Center [...]
The Sacramento LGBT Community Center has joined over a hundred organizations in calling for the Biden Administration to create a national Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) grant program to increase awareness and access to PrEP and related services. PrEP (a medicine people at risk for HIV take to prevent getting [...]
2021 marks 40 years since AIDS was discovered in 1981. "Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome" (or commonly known as AIDS) is a chronic and potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (or commonly known as HIV). We dedicate every December 1 to raising awareness of the global AIDS pandemic [...]
Health Literacy Month reminds us how important it is to make sure health information is available and accessible to everyone so that we can take charge of our own health. What Is Health Literacy? Health.gov points to two kinds of health literacy. Personal health literacy is the level at [...]
The Sacramento-based CARES Foundation has provided a grant of $83,840 in support of the Center’s HIV prevention and treatment efforts. The CARES Foundation provides grants to organizations in the Sacramento area that serve the needs of people with HIV/AIDS. For the last several years, the foundation has supported the [...]
Over the years, most medical trials and studies have not taken into account the diversity of the general population and the unique genetic, environmental, and cultural variations that exist across the country. In fact, most studies and clinical trials have centered around the average white male. Many people living in the [...]
