Innovative community outreach projects have the potential to reach people who need greater health support through engagement, education and empowerment. Community-driven partnerships working to reach underserved areas provide educational programs that can help improve the health and wellbeing of communities facing barriers to care.
Using data, we can better understand the unique challenges faced by specific communities across diverse geographies, create innovative new community outreach solutions and scale up existing programs. Programs we support include, but are not limited to:
- Initiatives that provide robust outreach and education materials, with resources for community outreach workers and volunteers working in HIV
- Programs that address the lack of culturally appropriate service options and break down barriers between communities and service providers
- Programs that provide greater social support to combat isolation
- Innovative stigma-reduction campaigns
- Strategies to increase organizations’ capacity to collect and analyze data for decision-making
- In-person community education events
- Advocacy training for people living with HIV
- Engagement with local policymakers to better understand the HIV epidemic