Since 2007, we have operated an anti-stigma campaign in Brooklyn that consists of three components - a speakers’ bureau, a theater troupe, and a community leaders’ initiative.
The intervention program, which reveals the faces of HIV/AIDS and its indiscrimination, targets African-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, Africans and Latinos with a particular focus on women of color, MSM of color, people who are chemically dependent, people with mental illness, and adolescents.
The program focuses on the following neighborhoods:
East Flatbush
East New York
Bedford Stuyvesant
Crown Heights
Williamsburg
Downtown Brooklyn Heights
Park Slope
Canarsie
Flatlands
Bushwick
The Anti-Stigma Interventions Program currently serves approximately 1,000 community members.