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AIDS Project East Bay
Oakland, CA
AIDS Project East Bay collaborates with the Sexual Minority Alliance of Alameda County (SMAAC) and Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC) in this project.  New and adapted programs, within an existing network of programs, will comprise a youth-directed, community-based outreach based through a variety of approaches.
     
Harris County Department of Public Health and Environmental Services
Houston, TX
The purpose of this project to be conducted through the Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services Department, is to engage HIV seropositive YCMSM into care, link them into appropriate services, and facilitate retention in care using existing locally defined categories of RWCA services.
    
Men of Color Health Awareness Project, Inc.
Rochester, NY
The purpose of this project is to modify and adapt comprehensive, theory based, and culturally appropriate prevention intervention programs for use with HIV-infected YCMSM, establish an effective outreach program which identifies infected YCMSM and links them into care, and increase counseling and testing of this population.
   
  
Wayne State University Department of Pediatrics
Detroit, MI
This project strives to conduct innovative field and Internet outreach to encourage YCMSM to find out their HIV status and enroll, engage, and maintain in care. The investigators will use and evaluate a motivational interviewing (MI) strategy, with extensive MI training to field workers, to encourage at-risk YCMSM to be counseled and tested for HIV.
 
Bronx AIDS Services
Bronx, NY
The Bronx Boogie Down Project is a collaboration of Bronx AIDS Services, Inc. (BAS) and the Adolescent AIDS Program of the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center (AAP). The project strives to improve outreach, care and prevention services to engage seropositive YCMSM in the region and help them stay in care.
   
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Los Angeles, CA
The Los Angeles County HIV Epidemiology Program (LACHEP) will offer expanded, active, community-based outreach to HIV counseling and testing, followed by referral and linkage into care at one of two clinics: AltaMed and Drew University Oasis Clinic.
 
   
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Chapel Hill, NC
A collaborative between UNC and community-based prevention and case management agencies will conduct and evaluate a social marketing campaign on college camp uses, promote access to HIV treatment and care among newly diagnosed African American HIV-infected college students at a consortium of colleges.
     

Working for Togetherness
Chicago, IL
The Chicago Area Priority Access (CAPA) Project at Working For Togetherness aims to decrease barriers within the HIV/AIDS healthcare delivery system for young African American MSM (YAAMSM) and increase integration of services for these young men. The three primary goals of the CAPA Project are to: 1) conduct outreach to deliver HIV prevention messages and increase early detection of seropositive YAAMSM; 2) develop an integrated, adolescent-specific continuum of care network for seropositive YAAMSM; and 3) create and operate a Youth Empowerment Center to increase youth self-efficacy to enter and remain in culturally- and developmentally-appropriate HIV primary care.
  

   


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