JASMYN Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network

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JASMYNJacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth
Network
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Situation

• Challenge
• CDCs Young Men's Study found HIV prevalence
  rates of 32 among Young African American MSM (AA
  YMSM)
• AA YMSM face multiple stigmas
• Impact
• Marginalized and invisible group that is
  difficult to bring into care
• Solution
• Establish culturally appropriate and accessible
  HIV Testing Counseling as touchstone for all
  services

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Youth HIV Testing Project

• Approach
• Develop trust through the guidance of a community
  advisory board
• Create shift in social norms for testing among AA
  YMSM
• Strategy
• Youth Council and peers involved in program
  design, implementation delivery
• Project location and marketing near youth culture
  community but allowing for confidentiality
• Popular Opinion Leader
• HIV CT message saturation in all program
  activities, including entertainment

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Best Practice HIV Counseling Testing

• Innovation
• Culturally appropriate HIV CT message saturation
  in all program activities
• Tangible Impact
• Yr 1 Number of YMSM testing regularly increased
  significantly
• Yr 2 Known HIV YMSM came to center through
  peers for support
• Sustainable Effect
• Normalizing HIV testing behavior among AA YMSM
• Replicable
• Guiding principal youth centricity
  (organizational commitment to peer leadership)
• Involve peer social network