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Mission: A coalition to enhance hiv prevention activities in urban jurisdictions highly impacted by hiv through facilitating collaborative technical assistance activities and serving as a resource to u. S. Center for disease control and prevention on urban hiv/ aids prevention issues.
Programs: Uchaps members cover jurisdictions that impact over one third of the nationís hiv epidemic. Uchaps has been at the forefront of piloting new prevention strategies since the beginning of the epidemic. Uchaps coordinates peer technical assistance (ta) and technology transfer activities among its nine member jurisdictions. Aimed at enhancing programs in participating jurisdictions and beyond, the ta focuses on topics of particular interest in urban areas and reflects pressing and innovative issues. Uchaps shares information, ideas, and resources gathered through ta presentations with a broader audience through its website and at national conferences. Additionally, using knowledge and lessons learned through membersí experiences, uchaps prepares best practice documents to support program development and implementation within its membership and beyond. Uchaps supported the implementation of a capacity building assistance program aimed at increasing the capacity of jurisdictions highly impacted by hiv to implement effective routine hiv testing in public and private health care settings, including the use of new testing technologies, prevention with hiv positive persons and program implementation related policy; developing and executing trainings and online learning modules, sharing best practices. Uchaps participated in numerous meetings with national and federal partners to describe, discuss and identify challenges and opportunities for improving hiv prevention services to underserved communities.
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