Alliance for Positive Change provides direct services to over 1,000 Black women in New York City every year, and provides health workshops specifically to advance health outcomes. Much of this work includes care management and medication assistance for cisgender and transgender Black women with HIV. Our work was recently documented for the peer-reviewed American Journal for Public Health in an article titled “Using Bundled Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes for Black Cisgender and Transgender Women: Findings From the Black Women First Initiative.” Co-authored by Alliance’s Director of Evaluation Dr. Erin McKninney-Prupis, the article explains the successes of these vitally important programs. These include long-term viral load suppression:
“In the 12-month postenrollment period, 85.0% of women reached viral suppression and 74.3% were retained in care.”
Funded by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration and the US Department of Health and Human Services, many of these interventions are already being cut or eliminated entirely. This makes the existing reporting on the proven success of effective interventions all the more important to study.