Parkland HIV Services Department

Parkland HIV Services Department is a place for people to learn about HIV, how to live with it, and stay healthy. Living healthy begins with understanding what HIV is and what it can do to your body. You will get information to help you and your family live healthy.

You will have friends helping you learn about HIV – people just like you, who live with HIV every day. The Consumer Advisory Board (CAB) works with Parkland HIV Services. The CAB helped develop The Basics video training because the CAB members are patients too. Learn how to take good care of yourself. Find out more information here.

Parkland HIV Services Department (PHSD) clinics serve more than 33% of the people in the Dallas area living with HIV. More than 18,000 people in Dallas live with HIV. PHSD wants to help you and others stop HIV. Find out how you can take good care of yourself, and then help others learn.

Our Mission

In partnership with our clients and community partners, Parkland’s HIV Services Department will meet or exceed the goals for Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America. This plan aims for a 75% reduction in new HIV infections by 2025, and a 90% reduction in new infections by 2030 through improved linkage, retention, engagement, and viral suppression, while expanding our primary and secondary prevention strategies through testing and PrEP.

Our Vision

Through excellent patient-centered care, education, and research, PHSD will optimize outcomes for all persons living with HIV/AIDS, decrease the number of new HIV infections, and eliminate stigma and discrimination.

Our Goal

To be a community partner in ending the HIV epidemic in the Dallas health service delivery area by 2030.

Ryan White

At age 13, Ryan White received an AIDS diagnosis. He and his mother, Jeanne White Ginder, fought for his right to attend school, and he was frequently in the news. At the age of 18, Ryan White passed away on April 8, 1990, just months before Congress passed the bill that bears his name – the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act. The legislation has been reauthorized many times since 1996 and is now known as the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

Clinical and support services are possible through funding from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-87, Oct. 30, 2009). The Ryan White program supplies HIV-related services in the United States for those who do not have enough healthcare coverage or financial resources to meet their goals. The program fills gaps in care not met by other payers.