The Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc. (HU), New York, NY
The Blocks Project: A Neighborhood-Based HIV Prevention Program through which Harlem United is interviewing neighborhood residents, block by block, apartment by apartment, with the goals of assessing their needs, getting them into HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, and making appropriate referrals for other needs. The Blocks Project aims to dramatically reduce HIV infection in East and Central Harlem (within 10-20 of Upper Manhattan’s most impacted blocks, and later increasing to wider zones), thereby curbing the broader spread of HIV/AIDS throughout New York City. With this project, HU is proposing a new and innovative approach to HIV prevention, going beyond HIV testing alone and viewing the problem as a public health issue to include annual testing for HIV, Hepatitis C, and STDs as well as looking at the socio-economic factors in selected zones that are common among residents who contract HIV/AIDS and serve as barriers to their care.

AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), New York, NY
Is quickly becoming the recognized authority on the subject of HIV and aging, and in 2006, with leadership support from the MAC AIDS Fund, ACRIA designed and piloted an innovative program in the NYC area that trained service providers from a variety of health and human service organizations on the health needs and issues of older adults around HIV.  Based on the success of the pilot, the program will be expanded to two additional regions and used as VIVA GLAM spokesperson Debbie Harry’s special grant commemorating $100m in funds raised.

Henry Lee Willis Community Center, Inc., Worcester, MA
This program will be the first of its kind in Worcester and the target audience is aligned with MAF’s current funding focus – women of color who are at-risk through sex work and injection drug use.  This grant is MAF’s first for a service organization based in Worcester, MA, which is home to the highest HIV diagnosis rate for Black & Latino individuals in the entire State.

South Fork Community Health Initiative (SFCHI), East Hampton, NY
The MAC AIDS Fund provides funding to expanding their testing and counseling division for HIV to serve Hispanic women and men who are at high risk for HIV infection residing on the east end of Long Island. SFCHI will offer clients with no health insurance and who receive no primary health care services on-site HIV/AIDS information and confidential testing at co charge to the local Hispanic community.

StayWell Health Care, Inc. (SHC), Waterbury, CT
For expansion of StayWell’s oral health services to their HIV/AIDS population. Specifically, the funds will allow those eligible patients to receive oral implants, crowns and abutments.   StayWell is the only financially accessible source of dental care for the most vulnerable uninsured and underinsured residents of its community. Oral health is an important challenge many living with HIV face, and one that MAF has a history of supporting.  This is our first dental program funding in Connecticut.