Acadiana Gay Mens Wellness Center

02/07/2024

https://thecurrentla.com/2024/acadiana-cares-to-open-northside-primary-care-and-mental-health-clinic-this-summer/

The clinic is expected to open in July and will provide primary care and mental health services.

06/24/2023

Thank you to our sponsor Acadiana Cares!
The LGBTQ community is our community, without the LGBTQ community there wouldn’t be an ACADIANACARES. They strive to provide information and services to all people. They believe everyone should have equal access to the same quality medical and social services and they strive to deliver just that. As part of this mission, AcadianaCares is a determined supporter of the LGBT+ movement and its fight for equality; they are happy to show our support by participating in this year’s PRIDE event.

06/24/2023

12/08/2022

10/25/2022

Join us on Monday evenings

10/17/2022

The U.S. government clarified that health insurers must cover PrEP and the associated doctor visits and tests. Here’s why.

10/13/2022

Vaccine at AcadianaCares call 337-233-2437

https://fb.watch/g7JTKt8zE6/

09/26/2022

This factsheet summarizes CDC’s 2021 update to the Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States—A Clinical Practice Guideline. The updates in this version of the guideline give health care providers the latest information on prescribing pre-exposure prophylax...

09/23/2022

Please join us for your first or second vaccine.

08/31/2022

Acadiana Cares and Bolt Bar and Patio have partnered to host a free monkeypox vaccine clinic at the Jefferson Street venue Wednesday.

08/03/2022

Given how little Monkey Pox vaccine we have received, our top priority for vaccination remains people with known exposures to monkeypox patients. There are two groups currently eligible for monkeypox vaccine: (1) individuals with known exposures as well as (2) individuals with likely high-risk exposures in the last 14 days.

Known exposures are identified via contact tracing. The second group was determined based on best practices identified in other jurisdictions as well as limited data collected regarding Louisiana's monkeypox cases to date.

Specifically, this second group includes: Gay, bis*xual, other (cis or trans) men who have s*x with men OR Transgender women and nonbinary persons assigned male at birth who have s*x with men and

Have had intimate or s*xual contact with multiple or anonymous partners in last 14 days OR
Have had intimate or s*xual contact with other men in a social or s*xual venue in the last 14 days
OR Individuals (of any s*x/gender identity) who have given or received money or other goods/services in exchange for s*x in the last 14 days
It is a high priority to provide vaccine pre-exposure to at-risk individuals; we are actively advocating CDC for sufficient allocations to be able to do so.

Important note: Anyone can contract monkeypox and the current eligibility criteria are only limited to the above groups because they are most at risk based on the first diagnoses we have seen. However, the criteria will be expanded as additional vaccine becomes available and/or individuals from other groups are diagnosed.

07/20/2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/18/monkeypox-gay-men-deserve-unvarnished-truth/?fbclid=IwAR3ynMN5lSiiiIRC0nv0PRfRjER0JTO_HVV1v3CK48Tkt_JXq3-5p6WN2fM

It's technically true that "anyone" can get monkeypox. But that's highly misleading.

07/19/2022

The mainstream media and public health officials are being so damn careful not to label monkeypox “a gay disease” that they’re doing a disservice to the gay men who most need important information about the outbreak – while misleading everybody else. In a July 28th

07/18/2022

As a global outbreak of monkeypox continues to grow, public health officials are stressing the importance of education in fighting the virus.

07/18/2022

As New York City and the federal government strain to supply enough vaccines, patients face a private battle to find treatment and relief from serious symptoms.

07/18/2022

https://oneill.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/BIIB-Monkeypox.pdf