{"id":81721,"date":"2025-12-04T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:54:08","slug":"free-hiv-testing-produce-and-ice-cream-in-fresno-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81721\/","title":{"rendered":"Free HIV Testing, Produce, and Ice Cream in Fresno on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinica Sierra Vista will offer free HIV testing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Between 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Orange &amp; Butler Community Health Center at 1350 S. Orange Ave., the health clinic will offer free HIV testing, fresh produce, ice cream, and community resources from 10 organizations, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Testing can be done in under 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of our patients that I see don\u2019t have any symptoms,\u201d said Ashton Chase, a family nurse practitioner with Clinica Sierra Vista. \u201cIf they do, they present with flu-like symptoms, which people just pass off as the flu, and then eventually, when they get sick enough and end up in the emergency room and get screened for HIV, that\u2019s when they are usually diagnosed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County reported 178 new HIV diagnoses in 2023, a 52% increase since 2019. The 16.6 per 100,000 local infection rate exceeds California\u2019s average of 12.2 people per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Administration Ignores World AIDS Day<\/p>\n<p>World AIDS Day takes place on Dec. 1 every year. Monday marked the first time the U.S. had not recognized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2025\/12\/01\/g-s1-99925\/world-aids-day-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World AIDS Day<\/a> since its creation in 1988, remembering the millions who died to the virus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2025\/12\/01\/g-s1-99925\/world-aids-day-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NPR reported<\/a> that when asked why the U.S. wasn\u2019t recognizing World AIDs Day, the State Department issued a statement saying, \u201can awareness day is not a strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asia Russell \u2013 executive director of Health GAP, a global HIV advocacy organization \u2014 countered that point of view with this statement: \u00a0\u201cA commemorative day, as minor as that might sound, is actually life-saving work to chip away at that deadly stigma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Community Assistance Groups<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from many community organizations and businesses will be on hand to inform residents about the services they provide. The groups include:<\/p>\n<p>West Care California\u2013The Living Room<br \/>\nBAART Programs<br \/>\nProject Food Box<br \/>\nAmerican Red Cross<br \/>\nAT&amp;T<br \/>\nClinica Sierra Vista Integrated Behavioral Health<br \/>\nHealthcare For the Homeless<br \/>\nHealth Insurance Assistance Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clinica Sierra Vista will offer free HIV testing on Friday. Between 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-81721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}