LifeWalk benefits Prism Health North Texas, a local nonprofit organization that provides HIV primary care and prevention services to our community. With the COVID-19 pandemic, LifeWalk is now more important than ever. People living with compromised immune systems can be at more risk of illness from exposure to COVID-19.
During the pandemic, Prism Health North Texas has seen an increase in testing, behavioral health services, and people returning to care at the organization. Many are losing their health insurance due to job loss and have turned to organizations like Prism Health North Texas to receive care and request assistance for rent assistance, HIV medication, food, and more.
Most of the services offered at Prism Health North Texas are free, and if payment is needed, it is at the lowest cost possible through the organization's financial assistance program -- no one is turned away if they are unable to pay.
Your donation and support will help cover the cost of care and will allow the organization to continue to provide services for those in need.
About Prism Health North Texas
Prism Health North Texas' mission is to advance the health of North Texas through education, research, prevention, and personalized integrated HIV care. The organization provides free STI and HIV testing, STI and HIV treatment, HIV primary care, PrEP prevention services, transgender primary care, behavioral health, and case management to our community. Learn more at PHNTX.org.
About the St Thomas Connection
The Episcopal Church of St. Thomas the Apostle has participated in LifeWalk from the very beginning. When many churches shunned and rejected anyone with HIV, the parishioners of St.Thomas welcomed them providing meals, transportation, emotional support and pastoral care. St. Thomas was the first mainstream church in Dallas to perform a burial for someone with AIDS.
Centrally located at Inwood Rd and Mockingbird Ln, St. Thomas has been
a convenient location for people living in the Oaklawn and Uptown areas. In fact, AIDS Arms (renamed Prism Health in 2018) had its first offices at St.Thomas. We continue to welcome anyone regardless of health status, race,
nationality, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
As of 2016 data, Dallas County has almost twice the rate of new infections as the State of Texas as a whole. By participating in LifeWalk, you are investing in the health and well-being of individuals and the communities where you work and play every day. Please donate and/or walk with us every year. Together, we can help make an AIDS-free generation a reality. St. Thomas has participated in LifeWalk since its inception 25 years ago, and we still have work to do.
