THE CENTER-LGBQTIA
How does GOMOJO help support the Downtown Las Vegas Community Center for LGBQTIA
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WE BELIEVE IN AN AIDS FREE GENERATION AND to get there we have to address MANY, MANY complex issues involved. But after years of walking the walk of the disadvantages, I have uncovered a few simple solutions in Downtown Las Vegas and how we can create an EQUAL playing field for all those who want to play.
GENDER JUSTICE FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS. WE ARE HERE TODAY IN RESPONSE TO THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ASKING ALL OF US TO HELP CHANGE THE SOCIAL NORMS AND JOIN THE FIGHT TO HELP END AIDS STARTING WITH THE GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONAL HARDEST HIT DEMOGRAPHICS.
We believe we have The MOJO Mission is to remove social stigma and spread safe sex with condom use for ANYONE-ANYWHERE. We will do this by educating, empowering and expecting readiness and achievement in safe sex with condom use. be the safe sex vehicle in consistent and correct condom use
THE GOMOJO is non-offensive 3-Condom Key Chain Container FOR HIM AND HER it is a unique, stylish, and practical wayto carry, store and easily yet discreetly access 3 condoms. We understand the great challenge in carrying condoms, the social stigma (what people think of people who carry condoms) and in readiness and achievement with safe sex in condom use, and having them accessible especially for those unexpected moments of passion or planned.
Discreetly carry on a key chain, in your pocket, purse, tool, tackle or glove box.
We provide a unique and practical means to increase condo
m use and stop AIDS through an everyday condom carrying key chain holder.
Readiness and achievement anytime, anywhere, in any element.
A tangible solution to promote prevention, provide a vehicle for everyday condom use and break and change unsafe sex behaviors.
Prevent and reduce the number of new STD/HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancy cases with condom use.
Support, Encourage and Expect Safe Sexual Responsibility and Wellness at ALL TIMES, in ALL PLACES, in ALL ELEMENTS.
Provoked by a call to action in July 2011 stating AIDS is now and still an epidemic in US. A call to action for all leaders to help reduce the increasing number of STDS/HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. A direct call to to focus on the disproportional demographics getting hit the hardest by new infections of HIV and follow the 58 billion dollars
So we evolved an universal condom key chain to designed to appeal to any target population to encourage people to do many other things then sex and looking for sex.
Sexually active women of reproductive age and their male partners, males and female, young and old, straight or gay or both.
#GOMOJO is a community mobilization program designed to reduce risk
for STD/I's, HIV and unintended pregnancy among women in high-risk communities by increasing condom use.
The program is based on the President's Emergency for AIDS Relief PEPFAR's
GOMOJO explored many community, health faith based organizations and to come up with ways and tactics to end health and economic social stigmas and discrimination change the world to ways to uncover the scientific evidence based behavioral and social change tactics to implement
Key Activities
1. Work with local agencies providing condoms free of charge.
2. Conduct wide-scale distribution. GOMOJO goes wherever the virus goes.
3. Implementation of several social marketing campaigns to promote condom use (by increasing awareness of condom benefits and normalizing condom use within communities).
4. GOMOJO conducts both promotion and distribution activities at the individual, organizational, and environmental levels. We take the
5. Target:
b. Venues frequented by high-risk individuals
c. Communities at greatest risk for HIV infection
d. The general populations within jurisdictions with high HIV incidence.
6. Supplement the condom distribution program with more intense risk reduction interventions, or other prevention or health services, for individuals at highest risk. Integrate distribution program activities within other community-level intervention approaches to promote condom use and other risk reduction behaviors.
7. Establish organizations support for condom distribution and promotion activities in traditional and non-traditional venues.
8. Conduct community-wide mobilization efforts to support and encourage condom use.
To address HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and around the world, the Budget will:
Fund Cross-Cutting Innovative Efforts for Care and Prevention. To take advantage of potential synergies across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies to implement the Strategy, the Budget authorizes HHS to transfer 1 percent of HHS domestic HIV program funding (approximately $60 million) to support cross-cutting collaborations in areas such as increasing linkages to care and developing effective combinations of prevention interventions.
Increase HIV/AIDS Research. While we have made great strides in understanding the AIDS virus and in devising ways to combat it, there is still more work to be done. The Budget increases funding for intramural and extramural HIV/AIDS-related research supported by the National Institutes of Health by $74 million from the 2010 enacted level, for a total of nearly $3.2 billion in 2012.
Support the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and Expand Investments in Prevention, Care, and Research. The Budget expands access to HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities and supports the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy: reducing HIV incidence, increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes, and reducing HIV-related health disparities. The Budget prioritizes HIV/AIDS resources within high-burden communities and among high-risk groups, including gay and bisexual men, Black Americans, Latino Americans and substance users. Compared to 2010, the Budget increases domestic discretionary HIV/AIDS funding at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by $219 million and Veterans Affairs (VA) HIV/AIDS funding by $173 million, while maintaining HIV/AIDS funding levels at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Overall, total US Government-wide spending on HIV/AIDS increases from $26 billion to approximately $28 billion in 2012.
Expand the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The Budget includes an increase of $88 million for care and treatment through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Of the $2.4 billion total amount proposed for Ryan White, $679 million is for Ryan White Part A medical and support services in eligible metropolitan areas and transitional grant areas. The Budget also includes $940 million for AIDS drug assistance programs, an increase of $80 million above 2010 levels to support access to life saving HIV-related medications for approximately 13,000 additional people living with HIV/AIDS. The Budget increases funding for the Ryan White Part C program by $5 million to maintain access to critical early intervention and primary care services for people living with HIV/AIDS. To address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on communities of color, there is a $15 million increase in funding above 2010 for Ryan White Minority AIDS Initiative activities, totaling $161 million in 2012.
Increase Funding for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Service Integration. The President’s Budget includes an increase of $58 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reduce the number of new HIV infections, reduce behaviors associated with HIV transmission and acquisition, and increase the number of infected individuals who are aware of their infection. The increase includes $30 million from the Prevention and Public Health Fund. The 2012 Budget for HIV Prevention includes four major highlights. First, the Budget creates a new formula for funding allocations to health departments’ prevention programs, in alignment with the NHAS, to “ensure that Federal HIV prevention funding allocations go to the jurisdictions with the greatest need.” Second, the Budget expands flexibility by allowing CDC and States to transfer up to 5 percent across all CDC HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and tuberculosis (TB) activities for program coordination and service integration activities. Third, the Budget redirects $51 million within CDC’s HIV/AIDS budget authority from less effective base activities to comprehensive and effective grants focusing on high-risk populations that align with interventions outlined in the NHAS. Fourth, the Budget transfers HIV prevention programming for youth ($40 million) to the CDC’s National Center for HIV, STD, Viral Hepatitis and TB Prevention. Priority investments in the Budget include $22 million for the Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention program for metropolitan areas most affected by the HIV epidemic.
Support Housing Assistance for People Living with HIV/AIDS. The President’s Budget maintains funding at $335 million for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program, to address housing needs among people living with HIV/AIDS and their families. The program is designed to provide states and localities with the resources to create comprehensive strategies for providing housing assistance and supportive services such as case management. The Administration recognizes special needs among people living with HIV and AIDS, and HOPWA program benefits are one component of the President’s commitment to increasing permanent housing among low-income individuals and families, supporting short-term and transitional housing, and reducing the risk of homelessness.
Fight the Stigma of HIV/AIDS. To strengthen civil rights enforcement against racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, religious, and gender discrimination, the Budget includes an 11 percent increase in funding to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. This investment will not only help the Division handle enforcement of civil rights protections for people living with HIV/AIDS, but align with a key action steps for reducing HIV-related disparities – reducing stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV.
Increase Support for Global AIDS Programs. Over the past two years, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has nearly doubled the number of people it supports to 3.2 million. This includes an increase in support to pregnant women allowing them to have a child free of HIV, which has resulted in an estimated 114,000 HIV-free births in 2010. While achieving these results, the per-patient cost to the U.S. of providing anti-retroviral treatment has fallen by over 50 percent since 2008 because PEPFAR has investing carefully, tailoring prevention to countries’ urgent needs, using generic drugs, shipping more efficiently, and linking PEPFAR to other needed health services.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/factsheet/fighting-the-hiv-aids-epidemic
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This community-level intervention for young men who have sex with men uses a combination of informal and formal outreach, discussion groups, creation of safe spaces, social opportunities, and social marketing to reach a broad range of young gay men with HIV prevention, safer sex, and risk reduction messages.
President Obama delivered remarks at the launch event for My Brother's Keeper -- his new initiative aimed at helping young men and boys of color facing tough odds reach their full potential. The initiative will bring together private philanthropies, businesses, governors, mayors, faith leaders, and nonprofit organizations that are committed to helping them succeed.
Strengthening state efforts for Black MSM – Under the Care and Prevention and Prevention of HIV in the U.S. (CAPUS) demonstration project, several of the eight participating states are focusing their efforts specifically on Black MSM. The three-year demonstration project is supported by the Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative Fund and seeks to support these states, each with disproportionately high burdens of HIV/AIDS among minority communities, to improve HIV testing, engagement, and retention in care among racial and ethnic minorities.
Increasing the capacity, quality, and effectiveness of HIV/AIDS service providers to serve Black MSM –Applications are due later this month for a new Resource/TA Center for HIV Prevention and Care for Black MSM being supported by HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau. To assist HIV service and other healthcare providers, the new center will identify, compile, and disseminate best practices and effective models for HIV clinical care and treatment across the HIV care continuum for adult and young Black MSM ages 13 to 24.
Promoting and supporting HIV testing among Black MSM – CDC’s Testing Makes Us Stronger social marketing campaign encourages Black MSM to get tested for HIV. Through compelling campaign ads in national magazines and on targeted websites, as well as through local advertising and materials distribution in target cities, CDC emphasizes the importance of getting tested for HIV regularly to help stop the spread of the epidemic. The campaign also includes a Facebook page and a dedicated website with a suite of campaign materials available for individuals and organizations to download and distribute. Complementing this important outreach campaign, CDC makes significant investments in both health departments and community-based organizations to support high impact prevention activities, including testing.
Supporting engagement in HIV care – The HHS Office for Civil Rights’ Information is Powerful Medicine campaign focuses specifically on Black MSM, underscoring how having access to your medical records can help you better manage your health. Access to this information empowers patients to track their progress, monitor their lab results, communicate with their treatment teams, and adhere to their important treatment plans. The campaign also provides information on e-health tools, such as the “Blue Button,” which make it easier, safer, and faster for consumers to get access to their health information.
