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Focus Area 1: Prevention for High-Risk Negatives

Black Coalition on AIDS
San Francisco, CA Through ConnectHIV, the "Brothas Alive" program will increase its HIV prevention outreach for African-American men and expand its Community PROMISE program, which recruits and trains individuals to be community advocates and to distribute role model stories and risk reduction supplies to their communities.

STOP AIDS Project
San Francisco, CA ConnectHIV will support Smarter Sorting, a program seeking to address serosorting, a growing behavioral trend among MSM in San Francisco. The intervention includes street outreach, training of popular opinion leaders, prevention workshops and a social marketing campaign.

AIDS Interfaith Residential Services
Baltimore, MD AIDS Interfaith Residential Services seeks to prevent HIV infection among high-risk homeless youth by using the Popular Opinion Leader model. The program will focus on young people in the foster care and juvenile justice systems or who are homeless.

Latino Commission on AIDS
New York, NY Latinas Por La Salud focuses on high-risk HIV negative Latina and will use community mapping to reach potential participants, including Spanish-speaking faith congregations and community-based drug treatment programs.

BEBASHI
Philadelphia, PA BEBASHI will provide intensive prevention case management to high-risk African American women at drug treatment centers and homeless shelters.

St. Hope Foundation
Houston, TX St. Hope will implement the video-based CDC VOICES/VOCES program to high-risk African-American and Latino adult men and women, providing prevention education during clinical visits.


Focus Area 2: Prevention for High-Risk Positives

Northeast Florida AIDS Network (NFAN)
Jacksonville, FL NFAN will expand its current case management program for MSMs and their high-risk negative partners by implementing the CDC model of Comprehensive and Risk Counseling Services and providing prevention case management to HIV+ clients.

New York Harm Reduction Educators
New York, NY ConnectHIV will adapt the CDC program, Healthy Relationships, to create a new HIV prevention program, Project Protect Our Partners, for HIV+ African-American and Latino/a drug users and their partners.

Prevention Point Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA The Secondary Exchangers Harm Reduction Intervention Outreach Services (SEHRIOS) Project will focus on HIV+ drug users who are unaware of their status by using community liaisons that provide harm reduction, referrals and supplies to their networks.


Focus Area 3: Linking High-Risk Positives into Care and Treatment

California Prevention and Education Project (CAL-PEP)
Oakland, CA CAL-PEP will add a mental health therapist and a peer treatment advocate to its Comprehensive and Risk Counseling Services Program in order to provide intensive one-on-one HIV prevention counseling, assistance in assessing needed medical, psychological and social services as well as offering sero-discordant couples counseling on how to avoid transmission.

Foothill AIDS Project
Claremont, CA The Newly Empowered Women Program will target HIV+ women from communities of color, serving them with Positive Self-Management interventions and linkages and referrals to necessary medical and supportive services.

Positive Impact
Atlanta, GA The Positive Action program seeks to reduce the stigma associated with mental health by providing referrals and mental health case management in addition to HIVtreatment education to African-American and Latino communities with untreated mental health and substance abuse issues.

AIDS Care Service (ACS)
Winston-Salem, NC "Positive Choices" Project will provide Comprehensive Risk Counseling Services to HIV+ clients already enrolled in care programs. The effort will include screenings for co-factors, multiple counseling sessions on HIV risk/behavior change, referrals, and ongoing monitoring/reassessment of individualized prevention plans.

Piedmont Health Care Consortium
Durham, NC ConnectHIV will support the expansion of Bridges to Good Health and Treatment (BRIGHT), an intensive case management program for recently incarcerated HIV+ persons that intends to "bridge" the period between incarceration and freedom.

Hyacinth AIDS Foundation
New Brunswick, NJ Hyacinth will expand its hotline services for newly diagnosed HIV+ clients by providing an anonymous and stigma-free means to access HIV/AIDS information and referrals. The program will include case management services including comprehensive needs assessments, client action plans, and follow-up with motivational counseling.

Philadelphia FIGHT
Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia FIGHT will collaborate with Action AIDS to strengthen case management services for incarcerated HIV+ individuals as well as to increase the referral to and utilization of care and treatment.


Focus Area 4: Treatment Adherence and Delay Disease Progression

Shanti Project
San Francisco, CA The L.I.F.E. Program® (Learning Immune Function Enhancement) will enhance the health of HIV+ individuals by increasing their adherence to treatment regimes and increasing healthy living habits. The program is a series of group workshops that identify the psycho-social factors in participants' lives which can positively or negatively affect their health and ability to pursue treatment programs.

Chicago House and Social Service Agency
Chicago, IL The Medical Adherence Program will target persons living with HIV/AIDS who have a history of unstable housing and lack the knowledge and skills to adhere to their treatment regiment. The peer-led program meets weekly to discuss each client's Individual Medication Adherence Plans (I-MAPS) and personalized medication education.

Test Positive Aware Network
Chicago, IL TEAM (Treatment, Education, Advocacy, and Management) is a peer-led education and training program focusing on HIV management and secondary infection prevention. The program incorporates group education and individual case-management, along with a mobile unit which provides drug adherence resources to hard-to-reach communities.

The Family Center
New York, NY Project SWEL (Stay Well to Enjoy Life) will assist high-risk HIV+ clients to manage their health status, including HIV and co-occurring health issues, to promote adherence with HIV treatment regimens and to manage side effects. Project SWEL utilizes a combination of individual counseling, group educational sessions, and linkages between peer mentors who are called Treatment and Adherence Buddies.





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