In the fight to protect people from the spread of HIV, an Anchorage organization had to get creative with at-home tests during the pandemic, and is seeing an uptick in the use of its needle exchange program.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - “Actually I just celebrated 13 years in December,” said Woods, the director of HIV Prevention and Education at the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association, also called the 4 A’s.
Woods works with the 4 A’s program in Anchorage, helping provide rural parts of the state with HIV testing and playing an active role in one of the few syringe exchange programs in Southcentral Alaska. Since COVID-19 started, HIV testing is now limited at the facility during remote testing. Instead, the program has switched over to using primarily at-home test kits. The kits provide participants with all the materials they would need to test themselves for HIV, allowing for more privacy for participants while testing.
In addition, it allows 4 A’s to administer tests anywhere in the state, with transportation no longer having to be a concern.
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