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Welcome to Health People

Health People is unique in the United States as a groundbreaking peer organization which helps people from low-income communities become leaders to effectively fight chronic ill health. Started in 1990 as a women’s AIDS prevention and support program, Health People has grown to provide a full range of AIDS services for men, women and families, as well as to start a large community asthma program, New York’s first diabetes peer educators program and a community smoking cessation program.
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The Health People Pledge

I promise to be responsible to myself, my family, and my community. I promise to fight AIDS-asthma-diabetes-smoking with compassion, determination and love.

Follow the Money: AIDS Funding and AIDS Deaths in the Bloomberg Years

A Study by Health People: Community Preventive Health Institute written by Chris Norwood

Summary: The massive redistribution of the city’s federal AIDS care and support funds, started by the Bloomberg Administration in early 2006, favored Manhattan to the extent that the city Department of Health allocated almost 60% of federal funds for AIDS medical care and support services to Manhattan-based agencies. As Manhattan AIDS deaths then began decreasing at twice the rate of deaths in the Bronx and Brooklyn, the other major AIDS-impacted boroughs; the significant progress that these two “outer” boroughs---which have the poorest, most minority and highest percentage of women’s AIDS cases---had shown in bringing down their AIDS deaths during the years before this funding redistribution collapsed. Overall, black and Hispanic women suffered the worst consequences of the funding and service redistribution and were clearly denied the full chance at life which is possible today with proper AIDS care.
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	We know that our prevention programs are saving the lives of women and men today...preventing more children from being orphaned tomorrow. And we know that our sensitive community-based support helps hundreds of distraught parents deal with seemingly hopeless situations so that children have a secure future. See Our Prevention and Support Program
	Health People has a variety of Groups and Programs to help when there is no where to go. Our Programs includes smoking cessation/quitting techniques, HIV/AIDS preventionl and support including Children & Teens emotional support dealing with HIV/AIDS. Also some of our programs are available in Spanish. See Our Unique Groups and Programs
	Our Workshops includes support groups orientation, HIV/AIDS Peer Educator Training, including HIV/AIDS prevention amoung others. Health People services also include crisis prevention, care givers training, Family Crisis Counseling, Asthma Community Education and more. See Our Workshops and Services