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Ending the HIV Epidemic
IAJE's Objectives
Diagnose
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Take steps to become a rapid HIV testing site
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Partner with local community-based organizations for rapid HIV testing and outreach events
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Research and develop a plan to make testing more accessible
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Identify a champion for the LATINX community to promote testing and education
Treat
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Find or develop relationships and links to care
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Create a strategy for medication and treatment compliance
Respond
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Identify gaps in existing prevention and care services
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Design tailored interventions that address our community’s specific needs
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Identify a champion for the LATINX community for prevention and care and services needs
Prevent
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Find nearby free or low-cost testing that have interpreters
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Find PrEP providers
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Work with the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Health to strategize a plan to develop syringe services programs (SSPs)
Stigma Reduction Plan
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Decrease stigma and provide life-affirming messaging and care
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Host and participate in HIV/STI events - Breaking the Taboo
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Transnational approach
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Conduct and report MS specific survey of subgroups and beliefs
Cultural Sensitivity
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Taming the -ismos - machismo, marianismo, familismo, fatalismo
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Develop a MS specific campaign geared towards LATINX community
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Spanish resources
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Work with IAJE Health Justice organizer to develop and train Promotoras de Salud in HIV work
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Partner with Federally Qualified Health Centers in Mississippi to create and distribute Spanish resources
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Promotoras de VIH
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Develop a MS specific Latinx HIV campaign for ending the HIV epidemic - #tomalaprueba
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Partner with Community Based Organizations in Mississippi to create and distribute Spanish resources
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IAJE Beliefs & Strategies
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Every person is worthy of dignity and respect.
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People are the experts of their own lives and have the right to self-determination
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Community organizing is the best way to empower people. IAJE supports organizing that builds collective power and leadership that begins with people who are most impacted
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Sexual health is health.
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Race, Class, Culture, Gender, Sexuality, and Health are inherently connected.
IAJE Spanish HIV Information Brochure PDF
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Mississippi’s Ending the HIV Epidemic Plan (English)
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