Prevention and Risk Awareness
Frannie Peabody Center provides HIV prevention services from our storefront office now located on Spring Street in downtown Portland and our office on Main Street (Route 1) in Ogunquit. We provide free, rapid, anonymous HIV testing to a wide array of people at risk, including: men who have sex with men, people who use drugs and/or alcohol, women with multiple or high risk partners, racial and ethnic minorities, people who have been incarcerated, people who have a sexually transmitted disease, and others at risk. In 2010, our prevention staff provided over 1,000 hours of outreach to high-risk individuals in Cumberland and York counties.
- We tested 638 people for HIV
- Nearly 82% of all individuals tested had high risk behaviors for HIV transmission
- The average annual per patient cost of HIV treatment and care in the US was $19,912 in 2010
- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has issued guidance that HIV antibody testing should be a routine part of everyone’s health care.