Valley AIDS Council, est. in 1987 is a non-profit HIV service organization that delivers sexual health and wellness services in South Texas. [Community. Health.
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"More than just a Clinic."
12/24/2025
🎄 Our clinics will be closed for the Christmas holidays so our team can spend time with loved ones. 🎄
We’ll reopen and resume regular hours after the holiday break. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and holiday season!
12/22/2025
Starting today‼️ Get HIV tested and receive either a Casa Orgullo cap or 20oz Know Your Status Tumbler.
Today - Friday, Dec. 26th — Please remember we are closed Dec. 24 & 25.
Available at all 3 locations!!
12/22/2025
This , let’s open up and talk about sexual health. Talking can bring you and your partner closer together. Make an appointment together to .
12/17/2025
Treat yo’self 🎁🎄!!
During the week of Christmas, get HIV tested and receive either a Casa Orgullo cap or 20oz Know Your Status Tumbler.
Starting 🎅🏼Tuesday, Dec. 22nd - Friday, Dec. 26th 🎄— Please remember we are closed Dec. 24 & 25.
Available at all ✨3 locations!!
12/16/2025
🎁 Treat Yourself to Peace of Mind This Holiday Season! 🎁
The best gift you can give yourself is safety and confidence. Protect your health by using condoms, l**e and PrEP.
Get send junk mail by clicking here https://shorturl.at/Fx2ZW or ☎ Contact us for more info and make this season worry-free!
12/03/2025
🎄✨¡Preparen sus sonrisas más brillantes y sus campanas más alegres, porque vamos a repartir MUCHÍSIMA alegría navideña esta temporada!
¡Únete a nosotros en un Sorteo de Juguetes el 6 de diciembre en Brownsville, lleno de maravilla, risas y montones de regalos! ¿Y adivina qué? El mismísimo Grinch hará una aparición, no para robar la Navidad esta vez, sino para tomar fotos, compartir risas y quizá hasta dejar que su corazón crezca uno o dos tamaños. 😉💚
¡Ven a girar, bailar y celebrar con nosotros al más puro estilo de Whoville!
✨ Juguetes para los peques
✨ Magia navideña en el aire
✨ Alegría que haría sentir orgullosa a Cindy Lou
¡No te pierdas el momento más alegre del año! 🎄🎁💚
12/02/2025
🎄✨Grab your brightest smiles and your jingliest bells, because we’re spreading BIG Holiday Cheer this season!
Join us for a Toy Giveaway, December 6th in Brownsville, full of wonder, giggles, and gifts galore! And guess what? The Grinch himself will be popping in, not to steal Christmas this time, but to snap pics, share laughs, and maybe even let his heart grow a size or two. 😉💚
Come twirl, whirl, and celebrate with us in true Whoville style!
✨ Toys for the kiddos
✨ Holiday magic in the air
✨ Cheer that would make Cindy Lou proud
Don’t miss the merriest time of the year! 🎄🎁💚
12/01/2025
We honor those we’ve lost, support those living with HIV and commit to ending stigma. Together, we can . ❤️
11/27/2025
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂 All of our clinics are closed for the holiday and will reopen Monday. Enjoy the long weekend, stay safe and we’ll see you next week!
11/25/2025
The public is invited to observe World AIDS Day on:
📆Monday, December 1st, 2025
⌚️5:30 pm
💒Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle National Shrine
(400 N. San Juan Blvd., San Juan, Texas.)
Please join us for prayers, a candlelight procession, portrait display, tributes from our community, music, poetry, and tabling from community service organizations.
The WAD program will begin following the 5:30 Mass. Scheduled to appear are representatives from Art That Heals, Casa Orgullo, CHICAS Happy Hour, Access Esperanza Clinics, GenTex, LULAC RGV Rainbow Council, Mount Calvary Christian Church, Pansy Pachanga, RGV Quakers, STEP (South Texas Equality Project), Temple Emanuel, Under The Umbrella RGV, United Church of Christ Rio Grande Valley, Valley AIDS Council, and Voces de Vida.
World AIDS Day is an annual observation of The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS), formerly in partnership with the Centers For Disease Control (CDC). UNAIDS’s 2025 theme for World AIDS Day is “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.” This theme addresses the critical challenges facing the global HIV response, such as funding cuts and their impact on prevention services, as well as the resilience of communities in adapting to these changes.
11/25/2025
Heads up! 👋 We’ll be closed this Thursday and Friday, so if you need STI or HIV testing, make sure to reach out before Thursday.
✅ We’re here to help you get what you need -- just send us a message or call!
11/11/2025
In honor of Veterans Day, our clinics will be closed today. We thank all who have served and continue to serve. Normal operations will resume tomorrow.
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Valley AIDS Council (VAC) is the primary provider of HIV prevention, education and testing services and the only Ryan White funded agency providing medical care and supportive services for people living with HIV in the 3-county area that stretches from the lower Rio Grande Valley on to the US/Mexico border.
Mission Statement:
The Valley AIDS Council dba Westbrook Clinic utilizing a multi-facility system will provide and expand capacity of services to individuals infected with, affected by, or at risk of HIV/AIDS and related co-morbidities. Westbrook Clinic will accomplish this in a Patient Centered Medical Home environment, providing comprehensive HIV/AIDS medical care, medical training, research, medical case management, dental care, social services, education, prevention and outreach, substance abuse services, HIV/STI testing and counseling. Valley AIDS Council is committed to achieving this by employing and empowering professionally competent staff who desire success for the clients, the agency and themselves.
Organizational History and Milestones:
In 1987, health care leaders from the Cameron and Hidalgo County Departments of Health and from Planned Parenthood met with representatives from the Texas Department of Health in response to the growing incidence of HIV/AIDS. That visionary meeting led to the founding of the Valley AIDS Council (VAC), and its growth from a small, collaborative, grassroots response into a comprehensive, multi-site, one-stop, community-based response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
In 1988, VAC secured funding to hire its first staff member – an HIV/AIDS community health educator funded by the Texas Department of Health. In 1989, a grant from the Texas Tech University Health Science Center funded a research position that helped secure one of two national grants under Ryan White Part C program funds in 1993.
The agency opened a primary health care outpatient clinic in Harlingen in June 1994, and offices in Brownsville in 1994 and McAllen in 1995.
VAC is the only Ryan White funded agency providing medical care and supportive services for people living with HIV/AIDS in the lower Rio Grande Valley on the US/Mexico border.
For over 25 years, VAC has offered wraparound services including medical diagnosis, treatment and case management targeting infected populations and HIV prevention and testing targeting those at risk for this disease.
VAC’s work is important to South Texas. By reducing our HIV positive patient’s viral load (the amount of active virus in the blood stream) our patients are now much less likely to infect others. And, by increasing their CD4 count (the amount of cells fighting the infection), they are more likely to stay healthier longer and less likely to acquire opportunistic illnesses.
A study conducted from May through December 2012 of new patients brought into care at VAC has shown a reduction in the average viral load from 45,992 copies to 60 copies, and it showed increases in the average CD4 count from 245 to 383 after six months of treatment.
VAC is proud to provide to the people of South Texas its exceptional medical care, treatment and prevention services.
