HIV/AIDS Prevention for Women Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions

This is a women's HIV peer education training project for women enrolled at minority colleges and universities. CHT collaborates with HBCUs and HSIs in the Southwest Region to develop and implement gender and race/ethnic specific behavioral interventions that provide HIV/STI transmission information, opportunities for social skills development, and foster supportive social networks. The overall goal of the project is to empower young college women to discuss HIV/AIDS prevention in a safe, supportive, and effective manner which truly addresses their needs and concerns.

Research continues to indicate that young women (and men) need basic information about HIV and STI transmission, as well as opportunities to discuss and personalize these issues. The desired outcome of CHT's comprehensive prevention approach is to establish a campus-wide dialogue where HIV prevention discussions are normalized and self-protective behavioral norms become worthy expectations that young college students have of each other. CHT, through current and former grants from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Planning -Title X, and Office on Women's Health, is working with select two-year and four-year minority institutions to support and implement gender and culture specific interventions such as CHT's Women4Women HIV Prevention Education Curriculum for Hispanic female students and Sisters Informing, Healing, Living, Empowering (SiHLE) for African-American female students. CHT has supported HIV prevention efforts at minority institutions of higher education since 2001.

Contact Alfonso Carlon for more information - acarlon@jba-cht.com