After the Visit
The fact is that effective health care, like caring, is a two-way street. The best care is the care you give yourself!
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The Real Authentic Words- Episode 3: Crucial Conversation about Treatment, Prevention, and PrEP
For Black Men & Providers
Let's Talk the Same Talk
Adherence
The degree to which an individual takes a medication regularly as prescribed or follows a treatment plan.
Jack’d
Location based mobile for gay, bi, and curious men to meet. Uses GPS technology in mobile phones to determine your exact location and instantly connect you with guys in your area. View pictures, stats, and map locations at a tap. A popular app among Black MSM.
PEP
Short for “post-exposure prophylaxis.” PEP is an HIV-prevention strategy in which a person exposed to HIV takes medications to reduce the risk of HIV infection. PEP must be started within 72 hours after HIV exposure.
Slay
To succeed; how someone may respond when something outlandish or surprising is said.
Depression
Depression is characterized by depressed or sad mood, diminished interest in activities which used to be pleasurable, weight gain or loss, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, inappropriate guilt, difficulties concentrating, as well as recurrent thoughts of death. But depression is more than a “bad day”; diagnostic criteria established by the American Psychiatric Association dictate that five or more of the above symptoms must be present for a continuous period of at least two weeks.1 As an illness, depression falls within the spectrum of affective disorders
