KEYSTONE OFFERS FREE HIV TESTING

(Chambersburg, PA) -- According to the Health and Human Services Administration, in 2007 the estimated number of persons living with HIV worldwide was 33.2 million and there were 2.7 million people newly infected with the virus.

In 1988 the World Health Organization established December 1 as World AIDS Day. Every year, organizations and individuals around the world use December 1 as an opportunity to raise awareness about the global AIDS epidemic.

Keystone Healthcare Network in Chambersburg, PA—a public not-for-profit organization that offers high quality health care to anyone and everyone—leads the fight against HIV/AIDS in Franklin County and surrounding areas by being in the forefront of HIV prevention efforts as well as HIV/AIDS treatment in our community.  Keystone provides comprehensive related services for families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Every year on World AIDS Day Keystone refocuses and rededicates its message of hope, fighting not only the disease, but also the stigma and discrimination of this epidemic in our community.

To help stop the spread of HIV Keystone encourages everyone to know their HIV status. Throughout the year Keystone offers free and confidential HIV testing that requires no blood draw.   

Free, confidential HIV testing is available at:      

Keystone Health
820 Fifth Avenue
Chambersburg, PA 17201

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday – Friday

For more information on HIV testing, call Vanessa at 717-217-4242. 

Information about Keystone Healthcare Network:

The Keystone Healthcare Network provides family medicine, internal medicine, pediatric, obstetric, gynecological, cardiac, behavioral, crisis intervention, and dental health care and, when needed, social services to anyone in the community including the underserved and vulnerable populations. Keystone now operates six full-time primary care practices—Keystone Family Medicine, Keystone Internal Medicine, Keystone Behavioral Health, Keystone Dental Care, Keystone Women's Care, and Franklin County Pediatrics—and a specialty practice, the Franklin County Heart Center. Keystone offers 24/7 crisis services through the Keystone Crisis Intervention Program. Keystone also makes primary care services available to migrant and seasonal farmworkers at locations across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 

Keystone is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation that was founded in 1986. 

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