ABOUT US
Our Strategy
Empowered Health Equity (EHE) believes that providing Culturally Relevant healthcare is the most effective way to radically end the HIV epidemic, negatively impacting Black people and other people of color. The siloing of HIV education, prevention, and care continues to advance stigma and slows down our progress in ending the HIV epidemic. EHE seeks to normalize the conversations, prevention methods, and treatment of HIV by involving members of the affected community and centering their Culture and life experiences to eradicate HIV.
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EHE is founded on the stated mission to end the HIV epidemic by using a radical approach to disrupt HIV transmission in priority populations. By adopting the concept of Racial Concordance to inform the approach to recruiting, training, and developing staffers; engaging those with high indications for acquiring HIV in education and prevention methods; removing barriers to linkage and retention in care, and providing capacity building and training for community partners involved in the fight against HIV.
The Work We Do
EHE’s mission is to help end the HIV epidemic by offering testing, linkage, and retention services, mentoring, and capacity building that center and affirm the lives and life experiences of those most affected by HIV in the South. Our footprint includes the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, including Jefferson, Shelby, Blount, St. Clair, Bibb, and Chilton Counties. Our current focus is improving outcomes of Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM), Transgender persons, and African Americans (in general). African American MSM comprises 70% of our clients, followed by women of Trans-experience and Latinx MSM. EHE will help reduce new HIV infections by focusing on the creation of a status-neutral HIV continuum focused on the following: Testing and Outreach, Linkage and Retention, Mentorship, and Capacity Building.
