Community-Based Interventions to Increase HIV Testing and Care

Posted by on June 04, 2012

Kaiser Permanente Invites Applications for Community-Based Interventions to Increase HIV Testing and HIV Care Utilization Grant Program
Deadline: July 2, 2012

Kaiser Permanente has announced the Community-Based Interventions to Increase HIV Testing and HIV Care Utilization Grant Program as part its effort to improve the health and well-being of racial and ethnic minorities and to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare and health outcomes, with a focus on HIV disease.

The grant program is designed to help improve early identification of new HIV cases and to increase HIV care access and maintenance of newly diagnosed individuals in minority communities disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. The program’s three main goals are to prevent new HIV infections; to identify HIV positive patients sooner, get them into high quality HIV care sooner, and ensure they remain in such care; and to reduce disparities among minority populations disproportionately impacted by HIV disease (particularly the gay, African-American, and Latino communities).

Awards will be made to community-based projects that focus on reducing new HIV infections through identification of HIV infection among recently infected adolescents and adults and on increasing access to and utilization of HIV care, particularly among newly diagnosed adolescents and adults.

Applications will be considered from nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to community health groups; organizations serving targeted minority populations; groups that focus on minority health, education, national, and/or community partnerships; and groups that represent minority-focused health professionals.

Applicants must have the ability to work with multiple ethnic and racial populations and have the capacity to collaborate with other organizations that represent targeted minority populations.

Four awards of $250,000 over two years ($125,000 per year) will be made.

For complete program guidelines and application procedures, contact the Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Department.

Contact:

Kaiser Permanente
John Edmiston
National Manager, Community Engagement
Community Benefit Department
One Kaiser Plaza, 21B
Oakland, CA 94612
Email: john.l.edmiston@kp.org
Tel: 510.271.6381

http://info.kp.org/communitybenefit/html/index.html