"The Whitman-Walker Clinic in Arlington County, which served the Northern Virginia HIV/AIDS community for more than a decade, closed earlier this year due to financial constraints. Now a new clinic, just two blocks away from the old WWC site, has opened to take its place. The sixth regional location of the Inova Juniper Program, at 5015 Lee Hwy., offers comprehensive HIV/AIDS care, assigning all patients a team of health care professionals that includes a physician, physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner, and a social worker. ...
"As of late June, the new clinic had 198 clients, said Berube. She expects by the end of the year it will have 250. 'The HIV community is very close-knit,' she said. 'Once people know about it, they will come.'"
Read more in NPIN, July 9, 2009.
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