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HIV/AIDS Care • West Memphis, AR
Clinic Type
HIV/AIDS Care
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Phone
(901)%20842-3163
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Opening Hours
Not published — contact the clinic to confirm hours.
Services Offered
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Insurance & Payment
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What Patients Say
Overall sentiment across review platforms: mixed
Patients praise
- Active collaboration between local health departments, nonprofits, and community advocates
- Ongoing efforts to expand access to testing, treatment, and PrEP via new clinics and programs like End HIV 901
- Development of toolkits to improve rapid ART initiation and trauma-informed care
- Increased focus on community-led strategies and outreach to high-risk areas
Common complaints
- Stigma surrounding HIV and HIV criminal laws
- Social barriers including housing instability, food insecurity, and lack of transportation
- Disruption in services and funding instability for community organizations
- Provider variability in knowledge of and willingness to prescribe PrEP or rapid ART
- Longer-than-desired wait times for test results and linkage to care
"She, her colleagues at St. Jude and other HIV advocates said they’ve heard patients complain of doctors shooting down their requests to, for example, be prescribed PrEP."
— MLK50: Justice Through Journalism (August 2025)"Themes of barriers include intersectional stigma, HIV criminal laws, abstinence-only sex education, housing, transportation, and limited access to HIV case management and mental health services."
— Ending the HIV Epidemic: One Southern Community Speaks (2021)Synthesized from public review platforms as of Jul 10, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4].
In the News
- Tennessee Department of Health HIV Care and Prevention Program — Jul 1, 2026
- Shelby County HIV Data | AHEAD — Jun 17, 2026
- Shelby County Health Dept. offers free HIV testing — Jun 27, 2026
- HIV rates continue to soar in Shelby Co. | WREG.com — Feb 15, 2026
Information sourced from the clinic's website as of July 10, 2026.
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