Vote online and help win $250,000 for PIH's local project in Boston

Posted on Nov 6, 2010


Help PIH’s US-based PACT Project win $250,000 from the Pepsi Refresh Project! With just a few seconds of your time, your vote can help some of the poorest, most marginalized HIV/AIDS patients in the greater Boston area.

The PACT (Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment) project uses Community Health Workers to deliver home-based care and support in the most impoverished and disease-stricken neighborhoods in the Boston area. They help patients take their medications on time, navigate complex health care systems and communicate more effectively with their doctors and care providers. PACT is now expanding this model of care to complex patients of other chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Hypertension and mental illness.  Ultimately, PACT seeks to aid in the transformation of primary care and the quality and efficiency of the medical system in this country.

Please visit http://pih.org/refresh and vote for Partners In Health’s PACT Project. You can also vote on your cell phone by texting 104061 to 73774.  In doing so, you’re sending Community Health Workers into the homes of the sickest HIV/AIDS patients in Boston.

You can vote once every day. If you use Facebook and Twitter, join the PIH groups to receive daily reminders about voting. And please spread the word to all of your friends!  

Thanks for helping support some of the most marginalized patients in our community.

 

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