HIV Prevention

Community Initiatives

The Business Responds to AIDS (BRTA) initiative supports and advances the mission of the CDC's domestic HIV prevention goals by encouraging and supporting the private sector, education, initiatives, leadership, and health promotion activities.

BRTA is a domestic public-private partnership that works to:

• Foster partnership among businesses on HIV/AIDS issues
• Enhance personal commitment, ethics and civic responsibility among private sector leaders on HIV/AIDS issues
• Promote education, awareness, and action about HIV/AIDS within the private sector

The Faith Responds to AIDS (FRTA) initiative empowers and mobilizes Faith Based Organizations to address HIV/AIDS issues in Miami-Dade County.

The 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.

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. 

Hispanic Initiative (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 approaches, meeting needs through service provider and community referrals, community building, information sharing, and dissemination. 

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.

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 Test Miami Mobile Unit serves the Miami-Dade County community by providing FREE preventative education and testing such as HIV testing and Chlamydia, Gonorrhea & Syphilis screenings. For more information, please call our counseling & testing line at 786-792-5269.

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 appropriate populations 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 at risk for HIV/STD/TB/Hepatitis.

For a list of upcoming events where we will be providing FREE HIV & STD testing, please visit www.TestMiami.org