Service Providers

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) provides advanced medical care designed specifically for HIV-positive clients. AHF providers are knowledgeable of up-to-the-minute developments in HIV medical care. In addition, AHF’s healthcare centers are often part of the research teams testing new medications to fight HIV. AHF provides the following/services at its Austin location:

• HIV Primary Care
• STD Testing
• Pharmacy Services
• Transportation
• Emergency Financial Assistance

ASHwell Sexual Health and Wellness

ASHwell is a nonprofit organization that provides compassionate services and care to Central Texans living with or at risk of HIV. The services/programs they provide include:

• Case Management
• HIV Peer Support Group
• Alternative health therapies, including acupuncture and massage
• Outreach
• PrEP and PeP
• STI treatment
• HEP C and HRT
• Wellness exams
• Referral for Health Care and Support Services
• Transportation
• Emergency Financial Assistance
• Health Insurance Premium and Cost Sharing Assistance for Low-Income Individuals

Community Action, Inc. of Central Texas

Community Action’s Rural AIDS Services Program provides assistance to HIV positive individuals living in Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, and Williamson counties. These services include:

• Case Management
• Transportation
• Financial assistance
• Emergency food vouchers
• Linkage with the Texas HIV Medication Program

CommUnity Care: David Powell Clinic

For over 30 years, CommUnityCare has provided HIV care and treatment to Central Texans living with HIV. Currently, specialty HIV treatment services are available at our David Powell and Pflugerville Health Centers. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, the agency operates under a “status neutral” model and provides equitable care and services to nearly 3,000 people living with HIV/AIDS every year, regardless of their ability to pay for care.

CommUnityCare also has a Sexual Health Program, which can help with a wide range of needs, including HIV/STI prevention. The team is currently located at the IDEALhealth sexual health center (M-F, 8 AM – 4  PM), within the Sandra Joy Anderson clinic.

For linkage to HIV care and prevention services, please call our Sexual Health team at 512-978-9000, or walk-in to our IDEALhealth center.

CommUnityCare’s services include:

• HIV specialty care
• HIV & STI testing/prevention/treatment services
• Primary care
• Walk-in care
• Women’s health
• Gender affirming care
• Family planning
• Pharmacy
• Patient assistance programs
• Behavioral health
• Nutrition therapy
• Dental services
• Nonmedical case management services
• Financial screening

Integral Care -- Community AIDS Resources and Education (CARE):

The C.A.R.E. Program provides the following services for people living with HIV who have a substance use diagnosis and/or a mental health diagnosis:

• Case management
• Individual and group outpatient substance use services
• Mental health services – individual and group counseling and psychiatric care
• Residential substance use services, which we subcontract to The Right Step
• HOPWA assistance

The C.A.R.E. Program also has a Community Health Workers (CHW) Outreach team that provides outreach, referral and engagement services. The CHW team spends the majority of their time assisting people who are houseless and underhoused in our community. The only requirement is that the person has to report current or historic substance use. Our program also provides harm reduction supplies, including, but not limited to safer sex supplies, hygiene kits, safer smoking kits, and overdose reversal kits. 

Project Transitions, Inc.

Project Transitions provides return-to-care and end-of-life services to People Living with HIV on a residential format. Considered medically supported short-term housing (limited to 6 months), service includes 24-hour person care, social work, and nursing support with intensive medical management and medication administration.

Project Transitions also provides affordable housing to low-income People Living with HIV at our 2 housing complexes. Case Management supported, these 101 apartments feature independent living in a community atmosphere.

Vivent Health

AIDS Services of Austin (ASA) is now Vivent Health, the region’s oldest and largest community-based organization addressing the local AIDS crisis. Vivent Health provides the following services/programs:

• Moody Medical Clinic
• Case Management
• The Jack Sansing Dental Clinic
• Helping Hands Food Pantry
• Capital Area AIDS Legal Project (CAALP)
• Paul Kirby Emergency Financial Assistance Fund
• HIV Counseling, Testing & Prevention
• The Q Project
• Women Rising Project

Kind Clinic (Texas Health Action) 

Kind Clinic provides sexual health services and HIV care in a safe, affirming setting. Funded in part through public health programs, services are available regardless of ability to pay. 
Locations: 101 W. Koenig Ln (Central) and 2800 S. I35 Frontage Rd (South) 
Phone: 833-937-5463 

Core services:

• HIV testing, diagnosis, and linkage to care
• PrEP (daily prevention) and PEP (post-exposure treatment)
• STI testing and treatment (walk-in welcome)
• Gender-affirming hormone therapy and intersex care
• Community-based mobile testing
• Virtual care for prevention and HIV services
• Case management
• Financial assistance to those who qualify
• Medication and health insurance assistance

Waterloo Counseling Center (Texas Health Action) 

Address: 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd, Suite 301, Austin, TX 78752 
Phone: 512-444-9922 
 

The Waterloo Counseling Center (WCC), a nonprofit serving Austin since 1983, offers affordable mental health counseling in an accepting environment, with expertise in gender and sexual diversity. Now part of Texas Health Action since 2021.

Core services:

• Mental health counseling (individual, couples, and family)
• Group therapy and peer support
• Trauma-informed care for HIV-related stress and stigma
• Teletherapy options across Texas 

Additional resources

• Medical Assistance Program
• Texas HIV Medication Program
• International Association of Providers of AIDS Care -  Fast Track Cities Austin/Travis County Fast-Track Cities is a global partnership between more than 380 cities, the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), and the City of Paris. The partnership’s aim is to end urban HIV epidemics by getting to zero new HIV infections, zero AIDS-related deaths, and zero HIV-related stigma. Launched on World AIDS Day 2014, the partnership also advances efforts to end tuberculosis (TB) epidemics and eliminate viral hepatitis (HBV and HCV) in urban settings by 2030.In June 2018, the City of Austin Mayor and Travis County Judge signed the Paris Declaration committing to achieve a set of 95-95-95 (recently raised from 90-90-90) targets which contain initiatives to end the global AIDS epidemic by 2030.
• IAPAC FTC Austin/Travis County Resource Portal