Programs

  • Program 1 [2020]

    In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to restructure community outreach and convert all of our HIV education programs and services to virtual platforms in efforts to maintain awarded grant funding. This year we launched our Stinging Stigma! Empowerment Program for Women and Youth living with HIV. With this program, we an anonymous support group to help reduce internalized stigma, fear, and isolation among participants. We also had the opportunity to help reduce HIV related stigma among pastors and faith leaders throughout the state of Florida. We offered weekly prayer calls for those impacted by COVID-19 as well. Queen Bee is a High Impact HIV Prevention Program designed for minority women, transwomen, and teenage girls 13 - 55 years old who reside in targeted zip codes with a high incidence of new HIV diagnosis in the Orlando Metropolitan Area. We continued this program via virtual platforms, including our Annual Queen Bee HIV/AIDS Awareness Symposium. Our HIV Prevention Leaders completed online training in efforts to enhance our internal and external communications and improve our social media presence. We are continuing to fundraise and partner with local business owners and faith-based organization to increase HIV awareness in our community.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
    Source
    990
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    No populations provided
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  • She is PrEPalicious? HIV Prevention Program

    This year we launched our She is PrEPalicious? HIV Prevention Program and Multi-Media Marketing Campaign in collaboration with the Florida Department of Health. This was the first campaign in Orlando, FL (and second in the State of Florida) to create a PrEP marketing campaign specifically for Black women. This campaign reached over 4.5 million people and we?ve provided PrEP education to more than 100 women and girls and 40 health care providers in the Central Florida Area since then. We hosted our 7th Annual I am a Queen Bee? HIV Awareness Symposium. Our theme was ?Queen of Hearts? where we highlighted several ways love is overpowering HIV. Our panelists consisted of two mixed status (Serodiscordant) couples that shared their love story as well as highlighted a panel of female HIV advocates who have the heart in helping end the HIV epidemic in our community. We awarded two women in advocacy with the Queen Bee? Award and educated more than 75 attendees. This event was sponsored by the Florida Department of Health, Black Women?s Health Imperative, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Southern AIDS Coalition, and HER Initiative. In efforts to combat the increased rates of HIV among Black women in Orange County, FL, we launched our research project with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) - ?Removing Obstacles to HIV Prevention for Black Women? in collaboration with two associate professors, Dr. Joe and Dr. Brown, at University of Central Florida and Rollins College, respectively. With the help of our colleagues and research assistants, we hosted two townhall meetings to hear from people in our community to better identify what the public health concerns, needs, and barriers are for Black women to access care in Orange County. We continued to establish several more partnerships and collaborations local business and several faith-based organizations to help increase HIV awareness and prevention messaging. Hosted several HIV Prevention Classes and we distributed more than 30,000 condoms throughout the Central Florida Area.
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    Dates
    Jan 1, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022
    Source
    990
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    $165.6K