Health Research, Inc. (HRI) has issued a request for applications (RFA) to provide up to $20,000 to each of three community-based Article 28 clinics with experience managing patients on HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and conducting at least one promotional campaign on PrEP to be part of a PrEP Aware Week Collaborative in October 2021. Applications (3 pages maximum) should be submitted to Rachel Newport at hivet@health.ny.gov by May 14th.
The PrEP Aware Week, implemented by the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, is a public health campaign to promote awareness and uptake of PrEP. The Collaborative will focus PrEP Aware Week efforts to engage the following priority populations:
- African American men who have sex with men;
- Latinx men who have sex with men;
- People of transgender/gender non-confirming experience;
- Asian/Pacific Islander individuals;
- Native American individuals;
- Women; and
- People who use drugs.
Each participating Article 28 clinic will have the following responsibilities:
- Designate an individual or team of individuals to participate in meetings of the collaborative;
- Participate in the creative process of brainstorming, reviewing story boards and commenting on drafts of a video for at least two of the above referenced priority populations;
- Identify patient PrEP Ambassadors to highlight in the videos and reimburse them $500 for their participation;
- Identify patients/community members from priority populations to participate in focus groups to test material and messages as needed, and provide travel reimbursement and a $25 VISA gift card to support their participation;
- Participate in the creative process of brainstorming, reviewing copy and commenting on draft digital/print ads and social media posts intended to align with the videos outlined in #2;
- Play a role in printing and distributing PrEP Aware Week t-shirts;
- Work with the AIDS Institute to offer a statewide webinar and other mechanisms to share the developed materials with all community stakeholders for their use during PrEP Aware Week;
- Conduct a virtual statewide or in-person local event or training during PrEP Aware Week;
- Promote PrEP Aware week within their individual facility and across their parent organization, to the extent possible; and
- Develop recommendations for implementation of PrEP Aware Week at clinical settings.
These activities are expected to take place between July and October. Additional information is available here.