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FOSTERING A HEALTH-FOCUSED COMMUNITY FOSTERING A HEALTH-FOCUSED COMMUNITY Testing and Counseling for Young Adults Socially and Financially Challenged Groups Based on a protocol signed by Baylor Black Sea Foundation and the A team from the Baylor Black Sea Foundation was among the inhabitants of Maritime University of Constanţa, and with the full support of the Students’ the area recognized as with higher vulnerable population. More than 100 League, a testing and counseling team carried out a pre- and post-test people attended the meeting with Baylor staff and received information counseling and testing session for the students and staff. The event took on the available free of charge counselling and testing service and ways to place following the spring edition of European Testing Week, taking access, supplemented with details about the benefits of voluntary testing advantage of the favorable context created by the European campaign. for hepatitis B and C and for HIV. Together with the Foundation’s counsellors, we gave young adults the The activity took place within the collaboration with the City Hall of opportunity to get tested and identify the risks they have been exposed to as a result of medical treatments, surgical or cosmetic interventions, and Constanţa, which carries out for the inhabitants of this area a project other practices with a proven degree of risk, such as borrowing personal co-financed by the European Social Fund “Integrated measures for a better care items or risks of a sexual nature. life”. This community testing activity raised awareness about Baylor’s services so that university students will be more likely to seek support from us for issues related to HIV and viral hepatitis, as well as caring for people with these chronic diseases. The European Testing Week, EuroTEST 283 Persons tested during the campaigns (spring, autumn) 233 High School & University students educated about testing 4 Meetings with adolescents Made with 34 35