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Support Team Network The AIDS Support Team Network has proven to be a powerful mechanism for introducing care and HIV-education initiatives into the communities of Alabama. The Support Team Network teaches communities how to begin, train, and sustain Support Teams through a Support Team Initiative. |
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African-American HIV/AIDS Initiative The primary focus of this initiative is to provide outreach to the African American community in relation to HIV disease. It is designed to develop partnerships with African American congregations and community organizations. We anticipate developing a similar program for the growing Hispanic population in the State that will benefit from the prior experience among the Black outreach initiatives. |
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SHAPE (Sexual Health Awareness thru Peer Education) SHAPE involves college students and people living with HIV to provide grassroots and real life sexual health messages to adolescents and young adults. HIV Educators (people living with HIV) are trained in sharing their personal story in living with HIV. People living with HIV, who are able to share their personal story, continue to report that the positive health affects of sharing their story. |
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GENEius & LabWorks! In 2006 the UAB CFAR teamed with the UAB Center for Outreach Development (CORD) to support the CORD GENEius and LabWorks! Outreach programs. GENEius provides hand on molecular biology experience to high school students. LabWorks!, is similar to the GENEius program in that it is housed within the McWane Science Center and is visited on a field-trip basis by students from schools in the local community. |
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Mary Fisher CARE Fund The UAB CFAR works closely with the Mary Fisher CARE Fund in its efforts to support long-term, outcomes-based research for the care of people living with HIV disease. The CFAR, in conjunction with the UAB Mary Fisher CARE Fund, has recently focused on using outcomes data generated from our electronic medical records (EMR) system to inform National HIV/AIDS policy. |
