AIDS Project of the East Bay

Founded in 1983 AIDS Project East Bay has been serving the community of the San Francisco East Bay Area for over 30 years. AIDS Project East Bay was originally a project of Berkeley’s Pacific Center and began as a response to the need for services for HIV positive gay men living in the bay area outside of San Francisco. Since that time the epidemic has grown and changed and APEB has strived to keep up with the changing tides of HIV/AIDS.

Serving one of the most diverse populations in the country, APEB often reaches into the margins to provide medical care, access to life saving medications, housing, financial assistance and mental health support. APEB’s clinic provides primary health care services, assistance with AIDS medications, mental health counseling and a variety of alternative and supplemental health care services. Our medical case managers help clients to navigate all of the services that they may need to live healthy lives.

Our Prevention Programs are just as responsive. With programs targeting youth and young adults, Black and Latino gay men, and other men who have sex with men, APEB provides prevention services to those individuals who are most at risk for HIV. APEB’s prevention department provides, a variety of support groups, educational programs, confidential HIV testing, counseling, referral and outreach services.

APEB’s Youth Services department makes it an organization that is unique among its peers in the Bay Area. APEB is the only community based organization providing services to HIV positive youth through it’s HRSA-funded Community Involvement Project which creates connections to care for HIV positive youth and conducts a variety of innovative activities to retain HIV Positive youth in care. The youth department also works to provide health education to LGBT youth through a partnership with SMAAC Youth Center.