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Developing Efficiencies That Drive HIV Outreach, Prevention and Linkage to Care
Housing Works, the nation’s largest community-based AIDS service organization, is a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The organization’s mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain their efforts. Housing Works is running an innovative demonstration project to break down siloes between its largest HIV prevention programs, leveraging the experience and expertise of outreach staff to establish a singular, strategic outreach, engagement and referral system. The goal is that this unified system will lead to increased engagement in comprehensive, low-threshold health and supportive services that benefit clients at elevated risk for HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs.
The Well Project
SHE/HER/THEY (Sexual Health Education/HIV Empowerment Resources/Treating HIV Equally)
For more than 20 years, The Well Project has become a recognized leader in the fight against HIV by revolutionizing the availability of vital resources and education specifically developed for cisgender and transgender women living with and at elevated risk of acquiring HIV. SHE/HER/THEY works to help ensure that women from these communities are meaningfully involved in the development of the organization’s programming and have a seat at decision-making tables, including those guiding efforts to end the HIV epidemic in the United States.
Translatinx Network
Trans Empowerment Space
Translatinx Network has both a local and national focus, with a mission to promote the healthy development of trans people through the delivery of a wide range of information and services. From 2022 to 2023, Translatinx Network plans to expand on its Trans Empowerment Space project by running six additional rounds of its TGNC Digital Empowerment Space. As a digital health literacy program tailored to (TGNC) community, the program is aimed at closing the digital divide in HIV prevention and health services delivery through digital education classes, community town halls, peer counseling sessions for one-on-one assistance and technology grants, as well as a report on TGNC digital health literacy.
Bronx, New York
Destination Tomorrow
Engage, Test, Empower = Ending The Epidemic
Destination Tomorrow is a grassroots agency and the LGBTQIA+ center of the Bronx borough, with the belief that no individual should have to leave his, her or their neighborhood to access LGBTQIA+ specific services. This digital health innovation and community outreach and education program aims to help decrease rates of HIV among transgender communities. The program endeavors to address the lack of tailored HIV-related programming for transgender individuals, particularly those who identify as transmasculine. The program specifically seeks to engage with transgender men and women in New York City and Atlanta regardless of their HIV status, with a focus on high-need underserved areas such as the Bronx.
New York, New York
National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
Zeroing In Nationally
The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc. (NBLCA) is the nation’s oldest nonprofit organization of its kind, dedicated to educating, mobilizing and empowering Black leaders to meet the challenge of fighting HIV/AIDS. The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS is supporting a digital health innovation program to increase the agency’s technology infrastructure and support improved outreach strategies to better engage key communities in services.
AID FOR AIDS International
Breaking Down Fear & Stigma Among Latinx/Caribbean Immigrants in the Metro New York Area
AID FOR AIDS is a non-profit organization committed to empowering communities at risk of HIV and the population at large, by developing their abilities and capacities in comprehensive prevention through access to treatment, advocacy, education and training to improve quality of life and reduce stigma and discrimination. AID FOR AIDS International’s anti-stigma campaign in metro New York seeks to engage with specific communities of newly-arrived Latinx/Caribbean immigrants and refugees, including LGBTQIA+ individuals, with a call to action encouraging HIV testing.
