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The AFIA Program is the first program in Massachusetts dedicated to addressing the increasing HIV/AIDS rates in African communities living in Massachusetts. AFIA provides HIV prevention, education and screening services and facilitates cultural competency trainings for providers who serve African immigrants and refugees.
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MAC's work with the Black MSM community expanded in 2003 with its merger with Men of Color Against AIDS (MOCAA)-the only stand-alone Black MSM agency in the state. A unique program in the Boston area, MOCAA offers prevention and screening programming for Black men who have sex with men.
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Community Health Nexus is MAC's Technical Assistance & Capacity Building program, which is dedicated to "... transforming the way we serve communities." Nexus provides technical assistance and capacity development designed to enhance HIV/AIDS services and organizations, by matching culturally appropriate resources to specific community needs.
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Casa Iris, Inc. is a community based organization which offers culturally and linguistically appropriate peer support and referral services to HIV/AIDS infected and affected Latinos(as) in the Greater Boston Area.
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Project NEBAI and Who Touched Me Ministries are MAC's Faith Initiatives. We provide one-on-one organization consultations for HIV program development in churches and other places of worship, HIV 101 training for the faith community, and support in mobilizing local efforts to commemorate the national "Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS."
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Funded by the Boston Public Health Commission, the State of Emergency Initiative at the Multicultural AIDS Coalition increases awareness of HIV in Boston's Black communities, educates about the importance of HIV testing, and supports people to get tested.
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Founded in 1992 by a group of devoted community women - 5 of which were HIV positive. Central to all of it's services are strategies, which endeavor to halt the dual epidemics of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS, and successfully provide women of color with skills, information and support needed to take the steps necessary to attain self-sufficiency.
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MAC is providing onsite HIV testing.
Services are FREE and CONFIDENTIAL.
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Be The Generation was created by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to to maintain and establish relationships with communities most impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in order to promote awareness, understanding, dialogue, and support for biomedical prevention research, including HIV vaccine research, microbicide research, and pre-exposure prophylaxis research.
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Check out the HVAD 2013 Advocacy Toolkit: Turning complex science into clear messages by AVAC!
Posted by Rachel Jescola on Sun, 12 May 2013
Drop off is FREE, anonymous, environmentally friendly and assessable 24/7
Kiosks are located in district Boston Police Stations, see www.bphc.org/drugtakeback
Posted by Rachel Jescola on Sat, 27 Apr 2013
“P-value” is a statistical term for the probability that a trial result is a real finding and not the result of chance. As the world faces new challenges and opportunities in prevention research, the global advocacy community isn’t leaving anything to chance. P-Values tracks HIV work on country- and community-level engagement in trials, preparing for results and implementation of new findings.
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Posted by Rachel Jescola on Sat, 27 Apr 2013
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