As a volunteer for western carolina aids project,the people of this agency really work for the clients and their needs.Their medical needs are met(medical needs are met even if a client doesn't have private insurance,medicaid or medicare)thus,the case management professionals are on top of the clients needs ,social needs(picnics,outings to a summer camp),volunteer services include a buddy program(matches clients with a trainned volunteer),fundraising programs,other programs are education,housing - just to list a few. There ia a food bank in this area,Loving Food Resources,for persons with hiv/aids. they work with western north carolina aids project for a clients food needs. I do like volunteering at western north carolina aids project.
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- EIN 58-1772685
- (828) 252-7489
- 554 Fairview Rd Asheville NC 28803-1341 USA
- wncap.org
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Mission: The mission of wncap is to provide hiv-related client support, prevention education and
Programs: Medical case management program provides hiv-related care coordination for clients at or below 300% fpl who reside in our 18-county coverage area in western north carolina. The primary goal of case management is to keep clients engaged in medical care for hiv treatment and to achieve undetectable viral levels. This service is guided by the belief that all clients should have access to healthcare. Our goal is to provide them with the resources to achieve greater self esteem and self-sufficiency as is appropriate for their individual situation. Accomplishments in 2017 include the housing of 8 homeless individuals. Three of them were placed in one week. Donors provided all three with the necessary household items to "get started". There are 5 medical case managers on the wncap team who are serving a total of 211 clients. Since april of 2017 we have opened 31 new clients and have graduated 12 clients from the need of case management. Staff at wncap drive thousands of hours per year, 6,136 miles in one month alone, to ensure access to medical care.
prevention program prevention staff provides education around hiv, hepatitis c, syphilis and other stis in 25 regularly planned locations and a variety of other settings in the community. This fiscal year we have distributed close to 100,000 condoms, provided 760 hiv tests, 473 hepatitis c tests and 59 syphilis tests. This brings total tests provided to 1,292. Through the needle exchange program of asheville we distributed nearly 26% of the entire safe injection supplies in our state, according
of the most recent hiv outbreak in scott county, indiana. It is thought that 1/10 transmissions of hiv now stem from sharing unsterile syringes. Also, closely tied to intravenous drug use, the rates of hepatitis c have recently skyrocketed. Of the 651 individuals tested for hepatitis c, nearly 16% tested positive for exposure to this potentially deadly virus. Wncap provides sterile syringes to the public without the assistance of federal, state, or public funding (though public funding is no lon