Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center

Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center serves Hawaii communities by reducing the harm and fighting the stigma of HIV, hepatitis, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, and poverty in our community. We focus our efforts on those disproportionately affected by social determinants of health, including but not limited to: people living with and/or affected by HIV, hepatitis, substance use, and the transgender, LGBQ and the Native Hawaiian communities. We foster health, wellness, and systemic change in Hawaii and the Pacific through care services, advocacy, training, prevention, education, and capacity building. ​

Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center is dedicated to reducing the harm and fighting the stigma of HIV, hepatitis, substance use, mental illness, homelessness, poverty, and other social determinants of health in our community. Among the services provided over the past year: medical case management services for persons living with HIV on Oahu; providing syringes exchanges to curb the spread of HIV and HCV on Oahu, Kauai, Maui and Hawaii island; clinical services including wound care and psychiatric and substance abuse support services; opioid overdose prevention training and naloxone distribution; substance use outreach and linkage to treatment; free testing for HIV and hepatitis C and linkage to care; smoking cessation support; case management for those referred by law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD) on Oahu; transgender support services; community health fairs; and special events like Honolulu AIDS Walk, World AIDS Day, and Transgender Day of Remembrance.