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#Black gay men in action full#
A key to decreasing stigma is creating spaces for men where they can bring and participate as their full selves. By launching the Initiative with the ethnographic study, city landscape analysis and co-design process, the stage was set for locally driven community solutions from the start. Community-driven approaches were necessary components of all grantee projects funded and for all ViiV-sponsored activities. The research and learnings from the latest report identified three primary areas to develop, drive and deliver impact: Our commitment fostered the framework to incubate new ideas, leaders and solutions to disrupt current trends in prevention, treatment and care. An estimated 4,600 men participated in grantee-driven activities between 20, and more than 6,600 people were touched by some element of accelerate-as a participant, audience member, grantee, Learning Community participant or panelist, partner or advisor. Inspired by this report, accelerate was born as a four-year, $10 million commitment to support a range of innovative community-projects aimed at supporting and strengthening the health and well-being of Black men in Baltimore, Maryland and Jackson, Mississippi.įor the past several years, accelerate has shined a light on the lives, loves, dreams, struggles, joy and power of Black, same-gender-loving men.
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As a cornerstone of the initial 2015 accelerate Initiative, ViiV Healthcare commissioned an ethnographic research report, Meet Me Where I Want To Be. ViiV Healthcare heard communities’ demands and responded with a dedicated initiative to focus on closing the gaps in prevention, treatment and care for Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in two areas hardest hit by HIV-one of the first initiatives of its kind. Accelerate was launched in 2015 as ViiV Healthcare’s pilot place-based initiative in response to two countervailing forces: the promise of the standard of HIV prevention and care and the persistent disparities experienced in Black communities, even more pronounced among gay and bisexual men.