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From Our President
Summer is here and Fenway Health and The Fenway Institute are gearing up for AIDS 2012: Turning the Tide Together, the 19th International AIDS Conference, which takes place July 22 – 27 in Washington, DC. Fenway’s Dr. Kenneth H. Mayer sits on the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society, which sponsors the conference, and is a member of the Track Committee on Epidemiology and Prevention Science. In addition, several Fenway staff will be participating and The Fenway Institute is co-sponsoring two satellite presentations – one on Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention: Maximizing Success; and the second on Creating Service Referral Networks for MSM in Low to Moderate Income Countries through Health Sector Interventions. In addition, The Fenway Institute will be releasing an updated version of our Policy Focus Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: Moving toward implementation at a National Press Club reception during the week. Read more.
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1340 Boylston construction update
We’re in the process of nailing down the final details of this summer’s expansion of 1340 Boylston Street. At this point, we expect the construction process to begin in mid-July and continue through the summer and fall. We’ll be expanding our dental services on the sixth floor and building out the fourth floor for the medical department and the fifth floor for The Fenway Institute. As the start date draws closer, we plan to post more specific dates, drawings of the floor plans and other relevant details about our expansion on our Fenway Focus blog.
Information about the build-out will also be more visible in key locations around the building at 1340 Boylston Street. We will be operating at full service during the build-out process, continuing to provide the high quality care you expect at Fenway Health. We expect disruptions to be minimal and apologize in advance for any inconveniences this work might cause. We look forward to welcoming you into our expanded space this fall.
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Updating our web site
Our 1340 Boylston Street location isn’t the only thing under construction here at Fenway Health this summer. Our main web site, fenwayhealth.org, will be getting an overhaul as well. We’ll be refreshing the web site’s graphics, reorganizing our existing content to make the site easier to navigate, and adding new content. We’re excited about this new direction for the site and we hope you’ll like what you see once the overhaul is complete.
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Book chronicling history of Fenway Health's first forty years published
Looking for a summer reading suggestion? For People, Not For Profit: A History of Fenway Health’s First Forty Years by Thomas Martorelli has just been published. If you’re looking to learn more about Fenway, the community health center movement, our community’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the evolving field of LGBT health, then this book is for you.
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A former Chair of Fenway’s Board of Directors, Tom spent nearly two years interviewing people from across Fenway’s forty year history, digging through our archives and putting pen to paper to produce his history of our first forty years. The book is chock full of photos and the appendix is filled with historical documents, including the “Preliminary Proposal for a Fenway Health Centre” in 1971 and Dr. Kenneth Mayer’s 1980 “Proposal for Venereal Disease Research” that laid the foundations for what is now The Fenway Institute.
Copies can be purchased at BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com and e-book versions will soon be available. We’re in the process of planning events to get the word out about the book and give you a chance to meet Tom and talk to him about Fenway’s history. Keep an eye out for more news about that this fall.
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