In addition to our services for those living with HIV/AIDS, PATF offers the most extensive HIV prevention and educational programming in the region. 

PATF offers free, anonymous HIV testing and counseling, including state-of-the-art Rapid HIV Testing, which allows those tested to receive their results in less than one hour.  You can receive HIV testing and counseling as well as your results in a community-based setting  deemed safe and confidential.  

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Girlfriends Project.

A spin-off of SISTA, the nationally acclaimed Girlfriends Project is similar to a Tupperware Party format: Women volunteer to host informal health-education parties for friends. The parties focus on: HIV/AIDS education; domestic violence education; information, referral and resources; free HIV testing and counseling; and incentives for party hosts and guests.   If you are interesting in hosting a Girlfriends Party, please call 412-345-7456, ext. 588 or email ldukes@patf.org

M2M.

PATF collaborated with Persad Center, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and the Pitt Men’s Study, to create M2M, a prevention program launched this fall that focuses on teaching men how to protect themselves and others. M2M's unique feature is that community stakeholders -- including members of M2M’s target audience, gay bar owners, PATF staff and volunteers – play a major role every step of the way.  M2M's primary goal is to help men adopt behaviors that reduce their risk for HIV. M2M focuses on a person’s physical, emotional and psychological needs. Representatives spread the word to community stakeholders in a variety of settings: educational gatherings, house gatherings, interventions at bars, sex clubs, theatres and book stores, bingo, etc.