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to use the influence of faith leaders and influencers in the African-American community to raise awareness with people of faith about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This initiative will be a partnership between the United Progressive Pentecostal Church Fellowship, Vision Community Foundation and community based organizations (CBO’s), and coalitions to advance the following objectives:

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(1) To increase the capacity of faith leaders to understand the recent biomedical interventions;

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(2) To open and facilitate conversations among faith-based leaders to address stigma and other barriers to accessing HIV testing and linkage to care among high-risk populations within the African-American community;

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(3) To facilitate the mobilization of faith leaders to engage their congregations and communities to knowing their HIV status and resources to prevention and treatment tools;

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(4) To conduct a minimum of Regional Summits, National meetings and other partnership events; to include pastors, community and faith leaders in a Prevention training designed for the faith leaders with an emphasis on biomedical interventions. These trainings will include, information on HIV Prevention, biomedical approaches to HIV Prevention, including HIV related topics in sermons, utilization of social media and getting key messages out to church’s social network.

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(5) To utilize existing a prevention education “tool kits” for Black faith communities to include; Prevention Education, Sermon resources and Testimonials that address how faith can be utilized in confronting HIV related stigma.