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HIV prevention: Capacity building in the South and among black MSM: Unspoken policies


Sunday, November 1, 2015

Robin Kelley, PhD, The National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC
It has long been this organization’s unspoken policy to seek to aid where the need is greatest.  Although a tenant of the National AIDS Strategy, one example of this unspoken policy occurred when we developed initiatives to proactively assist HIV prevention organizations in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 

We acknowledge that black and minority communities are disproportionally affected by HIV and AIDS. Many are often geographically isolated and often in the South. According to recent research, the South may represent 37% of the United States population, but 49% of new HIV diagnoses. Blacks also accounted for 49% of new AIDS diagnoses in 2011. In addition, in 2011, 61% of the newly diagnosed cases of HIV were of Blacks in the South.

This data reveals a troubling trend. Recognizing this historic pattern, in 2009, we launched a holistic policy of organizational capacity building known as organizational case management. From 2009 to 2014, the data has revealed that the majority of our cases have been in the Southern states. 

Over five years of organizational case management more than 95% of the community based organizations that we served were satisfied with our work.  Moreover, we conducted a session on a biomedical approach to prevention with Howard University and 83% were satisfied and 91% found the materials culturally appropriate.

We remain committed to racial justice and to train, and fight to help communities of color end the epidemic.

Learning Areas:

Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs

Learning Objectives:
List at least three components of organizational case management Demonstrate the effectiveness of this method of capacity building assistance to address complex issues with organizations.

Keyword(s): African American, HIV/AIDS

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have provided capacity building assistance, worked on the intervention and wrote the abstract.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.