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Community Services
Educational Sessions
Our program works to reach people who are at increased risk of becoming infected with HIV, or if already infected, transmitting the virus to others. The program activities include community outreach, risk reduction counseling, individual and group level interventions, health communication/public information seminars, and community level interventions.
HIV/STD Testing
Our TestMiami Mobile Unit serves the Miami-Dade County community by providing FREE preventative education and testing for infections of HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis.
Take the TRAIN?…Take the TEST! Is a community mobilization event that provides HIV/STD screenings and outreach information in areas of close proximity to targeted Metrorail stations with high rated of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Collaborative partners use mobile units to provide HIV/STD prevention education, rapid testing, and necessary referrals to all who visit testing locations.
Healthy Teens Expo are events developed for students of Miami-Dade County Public Schools to access comprehensive health care information, including educational rallies/testimonies, and access to HIV/STD counseling, testing, and linkage to care on school grounds. The objective is to create opportunities for students to access health care information, and HIV/STD counseling and testing services at school.
PCSI on Wheels is a program collaboration and service integration model that implements and delivers holistic, evidence-based prevention services and risk reduction messages to individuals outside the clinical setting. This model will facilitate joint planning and sharing or coordination of resources in an effort to provide more holistic prevention services and risk reduction messages to individuals at risk of contracting HIV, STD, TB, and hepatitis.
For a list of upcoming events where we will be providing FREE HIV and STD testing, view our event calendar.
Community Initiatives in Miami-Dade County
Florida Black HIV/AIDS Coalition is a collective of providers serving the Black community. Meetings are meant to provide information, networking, training, and coordination of actions to reduce new HIV infections, increase access to care, improve health outcomes, reduce HIV related disparities, and plan activities to achieve a more coordinated response to the HIV epidemic in Miami-Dade County.
Sistas Organizing to Survive is an initiative mobilizing Black women in the fight against HIV/AIDS by encouraging women to get tested where they live, work, play, and worship.
Iniciativa Hispana was developed to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS within the Hispanic community in Miami-Dade County through community outreach and HIV prevention education. The Hispanic Initiative plans, develops, and implements innovative strategies on HIV/AIDS education and prevention through culturally sensitive and indigenous approaches, meeting needs through service provider and community referrals, community building, information sharing, and dissemination.
Miami Collaborative MSM Workgroup serves as a vehicle to enlist the support of community members and allies to curb the high rate of new HIV infections. The initiative aims to enhance stakeholder engagement, reinvigorate HIV prevention efforts and align with Ending the HIV Epidemic strategies to mobilize local leaders to support risk-reduction behaviors. The collaborative informs local government organizations and community groups about the HIV epidemic, its impact, and how to mitigate the damaging effects of HIV stigma.
Miami PrEP Workgroup is a place for community advocates and providers to collaborate and use capacity building to create a better local service model for PrEP/nPEP in Miami-Dade County. The workgroup focuses on strategic planning, capacity building, resource sharing, and opportunities for networking to build better relationships among providers and increase PrEP/nPEP uptake. The workgroup created a new local service model that have generated better access to PrEP and nPEP and increased their utilization.
Youth Health workgroup coordinates stakeholder efforts to reduce new HIV infections and co-factors like STIs, interfamily and dating violence, and unintended pregnancies. Work is done to improve the lives of young people at risk for or living with HIV in Miami-Dade County through partnerships, community outreach, prevention education, and health services, and promotes innovative approaches to educate and provide services through partnerships and strategies which empower youth.
Miami Speakers Bureau is a group of bold individuals living with HIV who spread the message of HIV testing, treatment, and prevention by sharing their own role model story with the community. Members address HIV stigma by participating in health fairs, panel discussions, and other events, giving first-hand accounts of how knowing your status and taking your HIV medication as prescribed can lead to becoming undetectable, untransmittable, living a long, healthy, productive life, and preventing transmission to others.
For more information regarding any of our community mobilization groups or initiatives please contact 305-643-7420, option 3, or TestMiami@FLhealth.gov.
Business Responds to AIDS (BRTA) initiative helps businesses respond to HIV/AIDS in the workplace and the community.
Becoming a BRTA partner by completing an engagement form. Following submission, staff will contact you to provide you with information about your partnership commitment. Some of the benefits of BRTA a partnership include:
- Visibility: The program provides a national platform for businesses to showcase their efforts in addressing HIV in the workplace.
- Productivity: By retaining employees, businesses increase productivity by reducing direct costs associated with extended absence due to illness, turnover, recruitment, separation, and lost institutional knowledge.
- Profitability: By demonstrating a commitment in the fight against HIV, businesses garner respect and brand loyalty that can generate financial returns, align to stakeholder needs, and attract positive consumer responses.
- Accessibility: BRTA provides access to accurate, timely, and relevant HIV information, resources and peer-based technical assistance.
- Connectivity: Initiative facilitates access to a diverse network of like-minded businesses and stakeholders.
Faith Responds To AIDS empowers and mobilizes houses of worship and faith-based organizations to join the fight against HIV/AIDS. The program works closely with faith leaders to increase HIV awareness among communities of faith, reduce the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS, and promote the importance of HIV testing and knowing your HIV status. Join them twice a year; in early March for the National Week of Prayer and in late August for National Faith HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
Local Prevention Plans
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America is a bold plan that aims to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. by 2030. The new initiative seeks to reduce the number of new HIV infections by 75% within five years, and then by at least 90% within 10 years. Due to the high incidence of HIV, Miami-Dade County was chosen as one of the 57 jurisdictions to implement this initiative. Read more about Miami-Dade County's infographic, Miami-Dade County's situational analysis, and the EHE Jurisdictional Plan with the strategies and activities to be implemented in Miami-Dade County.
Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan is a vehicle to identify HIV prevention and care needs, existing resources, barriers and gaps within Miami-Dade County and outlines the strategies to address them. View the Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan.