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ASC's on-site testing center is open.

Stay at home and know your status at no cost to you. African Services Committee is providing free + confidential HIV home test kits, mailed directly to your home. Contact ASC at 646-209-4740 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to get your free HIV test at home kit today.

African Services Committee Mourns the Passing of Henry van Ameringen

African Services Committee mourns the passing of longtime friend and benefactor, Henry van Ameringen. Not as well-known about Henry was his support of Black immigrant and African HIV treatment access. Despite his refusal to allow his name be given to our Health and Community Development Center in Addis Ababa, an over-sized poster of handsome Henry, insisted upon by clinic staff, watched over the crowds who came for testing and treatment.

ASC Covid-19 Update: ASC On-Site Testing Center is Open

ASC's on-site health testing center at our Harlem office is open.

Our on-site health testing center at our offices in Harlem is a vital gateway for immigrants seeking free and confidential testing for HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis B & C, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy, diabetes, and blood pressure. Our staff speak English, French, Spanish and many African languages. Referrals for free treatment and care are provided regardless of immigration status. All are welcome! Monday to Friday - 9am to 4:30pm. Questions: (212) 222-3882

ASC /ICLC Attorneys Assist Detainees at Remote ICE Detention Facility

As the current administration continues its assault on immigrants, detention centers are over capacity and asylum seekers are being sent to remote detention centers around the U.S. Places where there are no attorneys who can help them. They have no rights and they are treated as less than human. ASC and ICLC attorneys recently went the extra mile, literally, by traveling to provide pro bono legal counsel to help these asylum seekers.

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News and Updates

Board of Directors Announcement of Executive Director Retiring

A note from, Uzoamaka Okoye, Chair of the Board of Directors

Dear African Services Committee community,

Today the Board of Directors announces the Fall 2020 retirement of Kim Nichols as Co-Executive Director at African Services Committee. Her Co-Executive Director and Founder of African Services Committee, Asfaha Hadera, will also be transitioning from Co-Executive Director to an advisor role for the Ethiopia Program.

Sessions Closes Major Path for Asylum Seekers

ICLC Attorney Featured In The New York Times

“The threats from her boyfriend came daily, fear having no respite, Blanca said. If she were to leave him, he told her from his jail cell, he would torture her, cut her into pieces and leave her to die. He was a member of the 18th Street gang in Honduras, and they did these sorts of things. She tried to resist. Then he threw her against a wall when she visited him in jail, the police nowhere to be found. When his fellow gang member later raped and impregnated her, and then another threatened to kill her, she finally fled to the United States in 2013.”

- as reported here in the New York Times, ASC's Immigrant Community Law Center (ICLC) is representing Blanca, whose domestic violence and gang based-claim for asylum is now in jeopardy because of a decision Attorney General Sessions issued, which strips protection from those who need it most -- asylum seekers. Read the full New York Times Story here.

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