EHE Request for Application: HIV Testing During Nontraditional Hours

Purpose: Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) is a national initiative to achieve the important goal of reducing new HIV transmissions to less than 3,000 per year by 2030. The initiative identified seven Florida counties as part of Phase 1 — Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, and Pinellas. As part of Ending the HIV Epidemic, the State of Florida (Florida), in partnership with local communities, will implement strategies to increase testing access during nontraditional hours. This funding period will end March 31, 2022.

Despite the wide-range availability of HIV testing services in Central Florida, the disproportionate disparities in new HIV diagnoses within Florida are still evident among African American/Black cisgender1 women, Black and Hispanic/Latinx gay and bisexual men, and all persons of trans experience (Florida Department of Health, HIV/AIDS Section, 2019). With the addition of HIV testing services during non traditional hours such as testing conducted after 5:00pm, holidays, and weekends; shall allow the aforementioned priority populations’ increased access to testing which may have been impeded my stigma, caused by services only being available during traditional business hours. This scope of work is for recipients, specifically minority owned organization(s)2, to increase availability of HIV testing during non-traditional hours to serve key priority populations through a variety of non-traditional community engagement tactics across Orange County. The Recipients, with the guidance of the Florida Department of Health (Department) in Orange County Area 7 Program Office, will provide these services to the community.

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