Requesting Services
If you’d like to request HIV/STD prevention services, to have us do a workshop, participate in health fairs or other events, please submit us your request.
Community Services
Educational Sessions
Our program works to reach people who are likely to acquire HIV or are living with HIV and may transmit the virus to others. The program activities include HIV/STD prevention workshops, community outreach, individual risk reduction counseling, health communications and community level interventions.
HIV/STD Testing
Our TestMiami Mobile Unit serves the Miami-Dade County community by providing FREE prevention education and testing for infections of HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis.
Take the TRAIN?…Take the TEST! is a community mobilization effort that provides HIV/STD screenings and outreach information at Metrorail stations in high HIV/AIDS incidence neighborhoods. FDOH and its partners use mobile units to provide HIV/STD prevention education, rapid testing, and necessary referrals to all who visit testing locations.
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 to provide more holistic prevention services and risk reduction messages to individuals who are likely to contract 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 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, 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 aims to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic population in Miami-Dade County through outreach and HIV prevention education. The Hispanic Initiative plans, develops, and implements innovative strategies for HIV/STD education and prevention through local approaches, meeting needs through service provider, referrals, community building, information sharing, and dissemination.
Miami Collaborative serves as a vehicle to enlist the support of community members to curb the high rate of new HIV diagnosis in Miami-Dade County. The initiative aims to enhance stakeholder engagement, reinvigorate HIV prevention efforts, align with Ending the HIV Epidemic strategies, and 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 and providers to collaborate and 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.
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.
Youth Health workgroup coordinates stakeholder efforts to reduce new HIV diagnosis and co-factors like STIs, interfamily and dating violence, and unintended pregnancies. Work is done to improve the lives of young people who are likely to acquire HIV or are living with HIV in Miami-Dade County through partnerships, outreach, prevention education, health services, and innovative strategies that empower youth.
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 the enrollment 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:
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.
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.