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Harlem United provides help or advice
for people in the community with HIV/AIDS Since 1988 it has provided
health and housing related services.
This center started when three young men went to a Lutheran priest for help with a drug addiction. The priest offered a place for them to gather, at a room on the third floor of the church. There, they began to realize that the idea of coming together and supporting one another was helping them fight their addiction. The three young men told the priest that they would like to give the support group a name. They then called it the Upper Room AIDS Ministry, established 1988.
Miriam Stovall, director of volunteer services at Harlem United, spoke about how she started at Harlem United. Ms. Stovall received a degree from Howard College, in Camden New Jersey. She started working at Covenant House as a counselor for runaways and push-outs teens. Harlem United was first created by Jules Johnson, Ralph Horton and a group of pastors, social workers, therapists, theologians, health providers, gay men and lesbian women with the concern of the spread of HIV/AIDS. It was first called Upper Room AIDS Ministry in reference to a room in its first home in a Harlem church. After a few years, it grew as more and more people began to show up for the meetings. Later it became known as the Harlem United Community AIDS Center. Harlem United is the largest HIV/AIDS provider above 96th Street. This center provides homes to those with HIV/AIDS. This center with two sites has one located at Lenox Avenue near West 125th Street and the other, which opened in 1995, located on West 124th Street. This treatment center provides people with needs of therapy, substance abuse, and AIDS assistance.
HARLEM UNITED'S mission is to work to eradicate HIV/AIDS from our services in a safe environment. As the faces of AIDS change, so will the body of Harlem United. We do this through physical emotional, social, spiritual empowerment regardless of one's age, sexual orientation, identity, national origin or ethnicity. Harlem United Community AIDS Center Inc. Has a website, at http://www.aidsnyc.org/
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