Over 35,000 North Carolinians are living with HIV...25% of them do not know it.

Grants made by the North Carolina Communtiy AIDS Fund support work in 28 counties. Our grantees are targetting some of the hardest to reach and most impacted populations - Latino/a youth, migrant farmworkers, African American girls, transactional sex providers, and LGTB youth - providing HIV prevention education, negotiation skills, and access to referrals for medical care, mental health services, and substance abuse treatment.

Approximately 2,000 people are diagnosed with HIV each year in North Carolina.

The AmeriCorps Caring Counts program brings a team of five passionate members to the Triangle area to serve our community for 11 months. Annually they provide over 8,700 hours of service including HIV counseling and testing, teaching HIV prevention to youth and college students, helping people living with HIV get the life-saving medications they need, and providing emotional support.

A quarter of those newly diagnosed with HIV are simultaneously diagnosed with AIDS

The Positive Charge Initiative is working with partners in three areas of the state - rural northeast, coastal southeast, and Mecklenburg County to get people who know their HIV positive status but are not engaged in medical care into care.

Impact

The North Carolina Community AIDS Fund forms strategic partnerships to bring innovation to HIV prevention and care throughout the state:

• Targeting populations hardest hit by HIV
• Getting people access to crucial medical care
• Meeting the needs of communities across the state
• Strengthening the HIV community
• Supporting the next generation of HIV leaders
• Identifying promising practices

Learn more about our work….

For more information
Please contact Beth Stringfield

Beth Stringfield, Program Director
Duke University, CB# 90392
2812 Erwin Road, Suite 4
Durham, NC  27705
(P) 919-613-5431
(F) 919-613-5466