NuHealth Participates in HIV Commission Conference

NuHealth staff participated in an HIV Commission Conference, joining several organizations whose mission is the education of young people about HIV/AIDS.

HeartB.E.A.T.S. (Bringing Education about AIDS To Students) is a youth-driven conference that educates young people about HIV and AIDS and other critical teen health issues through peer-to-peer workshops, educational theater, and an interactive panel presentation with people living with HIV/AIDS. 

For two years in a row the conference was co-sponsored by the NuHealth Foundation via the ACCS SRH program.

Denise Ambroise, NuHealth’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Department manager for outreach and education with ACCS is an active committee member with the Nassau County Department of Health’s HIV Commission’s Prevention Committee. She has been an active member for over five years.

In this capacity, she joins various other youth serving representatives whose mission is to educate young people that reside in Nassau County high risk communities with youth-appropriate information about HIV/AIDS via a yearly conference at Hofstra University.

In addition to providing interactive and up-to-date workshops addressing abstinence, safer sex techniques and testing and other related activities in honor of World AIDS Day, testing was also made available to over 200 conference attendees.

Submitted by Nassau University Medical Center