The HIV Prevention Unit provides outreach education at health fairs and community events andHIV/STI prevention education workshops for your clients or staff. We can also bring our staff and/or mobile unit out to you to provide free confidential HIV/STI testing at your location. If you’d like to request any of these services, please submit an event request.
Order your free HIV HOME Test kit
The first step to protecting yourself against HIV is to get tested. If you live in Miami-Dade County, test yourself for HIV and find out your status in as little as 20 minutes, without ever leaving your home.
Testing Events
Our mobile unit serves the Miami-Dade County community by providing free prevention education and testing for HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. For more information, please call our counseling and testing line at 786-792-5269.
Community Initiatives
Business Responds to AIDS
This domestic public-private partnership works with businesses on HIV/AIDS issues to enhance personal commitment, ethics and civic responsibility among private sector leaders on HIV/AIDS issues, and promotes education and awareness.
Faith Responds to AIDS
Empowers and mobilizes faith-based organizations to address HIV/AIDS issues in Miami-Dade County.
Take the TRAIN? Take the TEST!
Community mobilization effort that provides screenings and outreach information at Metrorail stations in high HIV/AIDS incidence neighborhoods, using mobile units to provide rapid testing, and referrals to all who visit testing locations.
community mobilizations
Miami Collaborative
Works to enhance stakeholder engagement and mobilize local leaders to support risk-reduction behaviors. The collaborative informs local government organizations and community groups about the HIV epidemic and its impact.
PrEP Workgroup
Community and providers collaborate to create a better local service model for PrEP/nPEP in Miami-Dade County, focusing on strategic planning, capacity building, resource sharing, and opportunities to build relationships among providers and increase PrEP/nPEP uptake.
Hispanic Initiative
Developed to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS within the Hispanic community through community outreach, prevention education, meeting needs through service provider and community referrals, and information sharing.
Florida Black HIV/AIDS Coalition
Provides 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.
youth health
A place for community and providers to collaborate and create a 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
A group of 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.
