The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention is a community-based, non-profit, charitable organization committed to providing health promotion, support, education and advocacy in a non-discriminatory manner for those who identify as South Asian living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Our services are offered in English, Tamil, Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Arabic or Nepali.
OUR MISSION
ASAAP is committed to providing culturally responsive holistic health promotion and support services for SAMEIC (South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indo-Caribbean) communities who are living with, at risk of, or affected by HIV and related health conditions.
OUR VISION
is of a world where communities of SAMEIC (South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indo-Caribbean) heritage come together to determine their health and well-being free from stigma and discrimination.We work within an anti-oppression framework to promote social justice and equity.
We aim to ensure that HIV information and services are provided in a variety of South Asian languages by multi-lingual staff where possible. ASAAP staff and volunteers can provide interpretation assistance during visits to doctors or specialists, clinics, hospitals and/or other social services in the following languages:
American Sign Language
Arabic
Bengali
French
Gujarati
Hindi
Malayalam
Nepali
Punjabi
Sinhala
Tamil
Urdu
Eastern Time (GMT-4)