Title: Black Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis and Planning for Action Joy Mbajah, Manager, Prevention
1Black Women and HIV/AIDS Confronting the Crisis
and Planning for ActionJoy Mbajah, Manager,
Prevention
2NASTAD Response to Addressing Racial Ethnic
Health Disparities Regional Forum Series
- Provide participating teams the opportunity to
examine and prioritize the barriers to providing
programs and services targeting black women in
their jurisdiction. - Support participating teams with the development
of a year long action plan - Provide technical assistance to jurisdictions on
issues impacting the implementation of their
action plans.
3Participating Jurisdictions
NH
VT
WA
ME
ND
MT
MA
MN
OR
NY
WI
RI
ID
SD
MI
CT
WY
PA
NJ
IA
NE
OH
IN
NV
DE
IL
WV
UT
VA
MD
CO
KS
MO
KY
CA
NC
TN
DC
OK
AZ
SC
AR
NM
GA
AL
MS
AK
March 2007 Midwest Regional Forum Participants
(Including City of Chicago)
TX
LA
FL
March 2008 Northeast Regional Forum Participants
(including New York City and Philadelphia)
HI
4Team Action Planning Process
- Part 1 Identify and prioritize major challenges
to implementing HIV/AIDS programs and services
for black women - Part 2 Develop key strategies to address the 2-4
primary challenges and document them in a
one-year action plan template
5Technical Assistance Timeline
Challenge Inadequate advocacy around women of
African descent Goal Develop an
advocacy strategy to address HIV/AIDS among
women of African descent in Boston
What actions steps are required over the next twelve months to your accomplish goal? Who will do this? When will it be done?
Identify existing organizations/ agencies providing services to women of African descent in the Boston area
Examine the kind of services that are provided (Develop a survey/ questionnaire)
Determine what services need to be added (Gap Analysis)
6NASTAD Technical Assistance Timeline
June 3 month follow-up conference call with individual state teams
SeptemberOctober 6 month follow-up conference call with individual state teams
November Joint conference call with all state teams. Opportunity for states to share successes and solicit feedback
January-February 10 month follow-up conference call with individual state teams NASTAD provides TA to states to replicate regional forum at local level
April Follow-up interviews with representative(s) from each participating jurisdiction Implementation of a survey (process and outcome assessment) State team report (compilation of final outcomes and lessons learned)
7Indiana
8IOWA
9Minnesota
10Illinois
11New York City
12Additional Outcomes
- Development of state-wide needs assessment tool
focused on African American women - Presentation of action plan activities to CPG and
subsequent formation of African American womens
CPG subcommittee - Brown bag series to address health and wellness,
including HIV/AIDS, among women of diverse racial
and ethnic backgrounds - Multiple presentations on issues related to
African American women and HIV/AIDS at statewide
health conference - Replication of the regional forum locally
Illinois, New Jersey Indiana
13Focus Groups
- NASTAD hopes to conduct three focus groups,
centered on three different populations, in each
jurisdiction with the following participants - Health Department Staff AIDS Directors,
Prevention Directors, contractors, and other
identified health department staff working to
address HIV and STDs among black women - Providers Community based organizations
currently providing services specifically
targeting black women - Consumers/Clients Black women currently
receiving services from and/or participating in a
program or intervention provided by a community
based organization, black women currently
serving on the CPG/PPG, and/or black women
perceived as leaders within their communities who
are actively working to address issues related to
HIV/AIDS and other relevant health issues.
14Interview Findings Fact Sheet
15State Team Planning Process
- Guided questions for robust conversation
utilizing state data - Three main outcomes
- Identify team lead and co-lead
- Identify date, time and location for the next
meeting before April 30th - Identify dates for the focus groups
16Next Steps
- Conference call state teams
- 3, 6, 9 month check in with entire team
- Regular check in with team leads
- On site TA meeting
- One day meeting to work on action plan and team
building activities - Focus Groups
- Health department, Providers, Clients
- Themed Conference Calls