The success of your program hinges upon community-based organizations’ ability to increase coordination and collaboration among community, local, and state HIV prevention and care service providers in order to maximize reach, increase coordination and collaboration, and support the provision of comprehensive HIV prevention services.
How do you decide who you should partner with?
Let outcomes be your guide… Successful HIV prevention programs will be able to:
1. Conduct HIV testing among persons at high risk for HIV infection
2. Identify persons with newly diagnosed HIV infection
3. Link HIV-positive persons to HIV medical care
4. Refer newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons for Partner Services
5. Refer HIV-positive and high-risk HIV-negative persons to prevention and essential support services
6. Distribute condoms to HIV-positive and high-risk HIV-negative persons
Check yourself
This tool lets you examine the required and recommended HIV prevention activities and consider if your program could be strengthened through a collaborative partnership.
If a partnership needs to be enhanced or supplemented, consider 5 key characteristics of partner organizations to determine the ways the partnership will build to provide to those most in need of HIV prevention services and treatment.
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