Buyers' Club The "Health" Perspective
The buyers' club offers products
which focus on managing the symptoms of HIV disease and the side
effects of HIV medications. The buyers' club stocks more than 450
nutritional supplements and non-prescription medications including
vitamins and minerals, protein supplements, and herbal therapies that
are sold at non-profit prices to reduce the financial barriers to
integrative health care.
Common Ground The "Faith" Perspective
Common Ground provides daily spiritual, emotional, and
practical support in a community setting. This day program provides
services every week, Monday through Friday, which includes formal
educational and inspirational presentations by guest speakers, a
nutritious lunch, individual social work consultations, and periodic
group recreational opportunities.
Thrive! Workshops The "Health" Perspective
Thrive! is a
free interactive workshop led by men and women living with or
affected by HIV/AIDS.
Thrive!
promotes individual self empowerment through education, mental health
education, and peer-based psychosocial support. The Thrive!
curriculum recognizes that deliberate choices,
decisions,
and commitments are key to living well.
Thrive! does
not prescribe one particular plan of action. The peer-driven workshop
provides the resources and support to improve self-efficacy so that
individuals are confident and informed in their decision making.
Faithful Care The "Faith" Perspective
Faithful Care is an in-home respite program that
provides practical secondary support thorough appropriately trained
care teams for adults who are home bound with HIV/AIDS, especially
those who live alone and/or have limited access to care. AAFH's
professional staff also provide in-home nutritional assessments, mental
health counseling, and social services coordination.
Massage Therapy The "Health" Perspective
The Massage Therapy program provides volunteer massage therapists who offer free therapeutic massage to HIV-positive individuals. Numerous studies have shown that massage offers several benefits to people living with HIV/AIDS, including boosting immune system function, increasing white blood cell counts, activating disease-fighting Natural Killer cells, reducing anxiety and harmful stress-induced hormones, decreasing swelling and inflammation, and increasing blood flow.
Pastoral Care and Counseling The "Faith" Perspective
Pastoral care, chaplaincy services, and pastoral
counseling are provided for persons living with and affected by HIV
disease. AAFH staff, interns, and volunteers are available to meet a
wide array of the spiritual and emotional needs experienced by our
clients and their loved ones. AAFH's care and counseling services are
spiritually aware, clinically competent, and medically informed.
Professional Training, Education, & Outreach The Intersection of "Faith" and "Health"
AAFH serves local faith communities and the larger
community by providing opportunities for person growth and development,
HIV education and AIDS awareness, and volunteer service. As a
contextual education center, AAFH provides professional training,
supervision, and service learning for seminary and other graduate
students at institutions of higher education throughout metropolitan
Atlanta.