A new treatment center geared to help HIV-positive homeless women opened in Downtown Brooklyn Friday.
The Housing Works facility will offer day treatment, primary care, and dental services to patients free of charge.
Organizers and patients say that the center will help to improve the lives of underprivileged New Yorkers living with HIV.
“When the team came together we said we need to provide a top-notch place where women can feel at home,” said Dr. Marcelo Venegas of Housing Works. “So we really designed it to be a place that didn’t have that institutional feel.”“As you know, Brooklyn is the epicenter of women of color and we are here to be their provider, their oasis, their safe haven,” said Rosalie Canosa of Housing Works. “It’s incredibly important.”
