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In fact, you communicate or ask can be done via text message don't even have to visit their facility to be tested. with their staff including asking tough questions, Project H.OT offers a home visits by their capable scheduling appointments and finding out about their staff to be tested in the comfort of your own home - upcoming events. Although their program targets say goodbye to doctor's office fears. For those out youth between the ages of 17 to 24, their services there that are concerned about your confidentiality, are available to anyone in need. They are also going Project H.O.T., both Bruce Wayne and Batman can be tested further to connect with the community by placing without worrying about whether to take the Ferrari clever and well worded posters and advertising San Antonio's or The Batmobile. components in vital areas of the community. Each appointment is carefully crafted, customized and The next issue is even more perilous than the first. The world around us has become all about tailored to meet the individual needs of the client The process of getting educated, tested and then Hot New Testing & integrating the things in our lives that make our every taking into account age, race, cultural sensitivity, treated is a process that is often hard to make days normal and trying to marry them with the parts language, level of education and sexual identity. seamless and bearable. Over the course of a single that may not be as easy to do or easy to deal with. The program is also going further to reach out to Counseling Service visit or maybe even a few visits, a person may see Project H.OT (HIV Outreach & Testing) is a new the Hispanic and Spanish speaking community a multitude of different people, from the front desk testing, treatment and counseling organization that which is a huge population in SA. They also provide during walk in, the educative staff, the tester and endeavors to bring the creature comforts of your outreach, early intervention and risk reduction As usual, I'd like to start our short literary then possibly even the therapist and case manager. leisure and social schedule and the importance of programs which at their core are designed to look adventure with two meaningful questions. The first In the modern world, we know this process as the STD testing and treatment under one roof, and is at sexual behavior and risks in a modern way that of which is somewhat simple. Over the course of call center customer service dilemma. You need to promising not to stop at that. While Project H.O.T.'s realizes that sex is only unhealthy if it puts people your lifetime, how much have you leamed about call customer service to pay a bill or ask a simple launch may have been quiet and fallen slightly under at risk and in no way discourages sexual behavior yourself, others and life over a cup of hot coffee? question about your bank account. Three years and the GLBT and MSM radar about a year ago, its across age, race and sexual orientation. If you're anything like me, you've spent more than 19 minutes later, you've talked with four people and revolutionary services are pulling it into its rightful a few moments sitting in a coffee bar chatting with have now been connected to someone in a foreign In everything they do, Project H.OT is striving to place in the spotlight. I took some time to visit their friends and coworkers, on dates and sitting alone country that you can't understand. Project H.O.T. raise the bar on our common conceptions and downtown facility and sit down with Nathan and reading a book or surfing the internet searching for solves that issue as well. From the moment you expectations of the testing community as well as Roman, the program's founders and talk shop about the answers to life's most meaningful questions. walk in, you're assigned one liaison that will take ensuring that the testing process becomes easier, what makes Project H.O.T. such a hot concept. It For most that means reading Facebook updates, you from the beginning of your visit, through the more comfortable, accessible and integral to the was that funny feeling that people get when they posting Facebook updates, and doing research tough questions, new information about prevention, lives of everyone in the community. It reaches out have just seen and heard about something that you needed for school and work projects. Our modern testing and then to whatever the end result of your in ways that become tangible to modern society just know is going to change the lives of many ... lives have taken a tum for the super social as we visit becomes. Good news is followed by ways to and relatable to anyone interested in discovering well ... forever. venture out of our houses, apartments and comfort keep getting good news and the not so good news more about what they can do to better their zones with our WIFI enabled devices to discover a What began as the thoughts on few a complex entails treatment and a plan to make it healthy and sexual health and how to take the first steps in little more about the world through the wonders problems with other testing options soon lead to . successful. Bad news is already unpleasant without getting tested, educated and treated. They plan and promise of caffeine and the java experience. a dream and the creation and implementation of a having four different people tell you about it. In fact, to open the doors of their internet and coffee bar successful attempt to solve them. In all my years of most might agree that even good news can turn cafe by the beginning of April and all of the other My second question may sound a bit more writing, I've visited and worked with many testing bad depending on what process you've been services mentioned above are already available to perilous but as you've probably guessed, it is just facilities, trying to show the communities around through to get it. the community. If you find solace, comfort or get as meaningful, if not more meaningful than the first them how much potential they have to help people excited about anything I've mentioned and are to this article. How many times has a cup of coffee The truth is that every testing facility operates under do the right thing by preventing infection, reach interested in learning more, paying their facility a saved your life or given you the strength to find a set of standards that is supposed to accomplish the healthy realization of the importance of getting visit to be tested or if you're interested in helping out more about your sexual health? For most, the all of those things I mentioned above ... prevention, tested and get them through the rough patch that their cause, visit their Facebook page (Search answer to the first is quite obvious and probably education, testing and treatment. How well they can potentially follow a positive result on one of the "Project H.O.T.") or go to http://www.facebook. easy to answer. We fit coffee and the internet into do those things is often a gamble depending on tests. A quick assessment of some of the issues corrvprojecthotvref-tssfref-ts. our days, weeks and years seamlessly without what city you live in and what services are available. faced by the wayward uneducated and untested question or hesitation. It's that second question Luckily for San Antonio, Project H.O.T. is doing There you will find ways to contact them via individual reveals exactly what makes Project H.OT that I asked that most likely has you drawing more, much more. So, why did I mention the phone, text and E-mail. Their well put together so revolutionary. a blank. Well, for those struggling to answer it coffee earlier? Well, apart from routine testing, they Testing Center is located at 314 South Flores near (which I'll wager is most anyone reading this), Walking into a testing facility alone takes courage but provide free computer access with WIFI and coffee. downtown San Antonio. Regular testing doesn't your answer is at best inscrutable or nonexistent. staying there long enough to be educated, tested Imagine the comforts of Starbucks with the ability have to be scary and should be done a few times a Not many think about their HIV status or how and treated can at times take a miracle.