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Overview

Boston HAPPENS provides services to youth 13-25 (and primary care patients of the Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic) who are HIV positive or at risk for the disease and other STIs. HAPPENS also offersHIV counseling and testingand Hepatitis C testing for teensandyoung adults as well as STI (syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia) testing. All testing will be billed through your insurance.

For youth with recent known exposures to HIV, or for victims of sexual assault, we offer Post Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) treatment and follow-up services, which can greatly reduce the chance of HIV infection. For those who are HIV negative but at high risk, our interdisciplinary team offers education and clinical consultation for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), which helps prevent HIV infection.

Please call617-355-2735for hours and more information.

Medical services

We have specialists in adolescent medicine, HIV care, nursing, and mental health to answer your questions about HIV and provide you with a wide range of health care and support services, including:

  • primary care services

  • gynecological services

  • HIV care and medications

  • full checkups and lab tests

  • STD testing and treatment

  • birth control and family/pre-conceptual planning

  • access to HIV clinical trials

  • cervical and anal pap smears

  • special immunizations

Collaboration

In addition to providing services at Boston Children's, we collaborate with other youth-serving programs throughout Boston, including:

Dimock Community Health Center's Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Project

The Boston HAPPENS Program at Boston Children's Hospital relies on the kind donations of people and groups interested in supporting our work. With donors' help we can provide teens with free HIV counseling and testing, health care and support services.

How to donate

If you are interested in supporting the Boston HAPPENS Program, please follow these steps to make a donation:

  • Click on thedonations link.

  • Click on "Make a Gift Now" (purple button in upper left).

  • Click "Make a Single Gift."

  • Enter gift amount.

  • Under Gift to Support, select "Other" in the drop-down menu.

  • In the blank field, please enter "The Boston HAPPENS Program."

  • Fill in additional information and click "Process My Gift. "

Thank you!

Boston Children's Hospital Trust
401 Park Drive, Suite 602
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-355-6890

Funding sources

Boston Happens is funded in part by these organizations*

We are supported byBoston Public Health Commissionand are a Ryan White Part A funded site; we offer nutrition services and health education and risk reduction services as part of our program.

Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Project(BPFAP), Ryan White Part D Program, a project funded by the Ryan White Care Act, HRSA, helps to support outreach, case management, mental health, and support group efforts.

Last updated November 2019.
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