Health & Fitness
Nonprofit In Philadelphia's Kensington Neighborhood Working To Prevent HIV Infections
"HIV is still an easy virus to spread. It's still an easy virus to contract, and it can go unnoticed for years," Kareem Mims said.
June 20, 2025
In a quiet corner of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, Kareem Mims is doing work that could one day put him out of a job, and he hopes it does.
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As a prevention healthcare coordinator at Prevention Point Philadelphia, Mims tests people for HIV, the virus that has taken the lives of over 700,000 people in the United States since the start of the epidemic in 1981.
"HIV is still an easy virus to spread. It's still an easy virus to contract, and it can go unnoticed for years," Mims said. "So, the more people getting tested, especially our at-risk folks, if they are infected with HIV, we can get them in treatment and have them undetectable, which means un-transmittable, within 30 days."
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