The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) provides medical case management or care coordination services for people living with HIV/AIDS. If you enroll in Care Coordination, you will have a whole team providing support. A care coordinator will help you with your clinical needs and a navigator will help you in the community.

The team will help you:

• Learn to live better with HIV/AIDS
• Manage medical appointments
• Manage your medications
• Get access to housing, health insurance, and social services

Proof of your HIV/AIDS status is required.

Learn more about HIV Care Coordination.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) provides:

• Assistance notifying your sex or needle sharing partner of HIV exposure
• Help getting notified partners tested for HIV
• Help connecting any HIV positive person to HIV medical providers
• Information for preventing HIV transmission and staying healthy

The DOHMH also takes reports about individuals intentionally spreading HIV.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene offers a free and confidential texting service for people who have HIV.

You can enroll to get the following services by text:

• Medication reminders
• Appointment reminders
• Refill reminders
• Healthy messages
• Information on health education workshops
• Information on free safer sex products
• Timely updates on biomedical interventions (PrEP, PEP)
• Upcoming workshops
• Other events

To Enroll

Text the word CARE to 55676.

Additional Information

Learn about HIV care resources.

The Positive Life Workshop is a peer-led series for anyone who is living with HIV. The workshop provides a confidential space to meet other people with HIV and improve your health.

Topics include:

• Advocating with your medical provider
• Taking medicine as prescribed
• Physical, emotional, and social health

You can register for Positive Life Workshops by phone.

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