HIV and STIs

CAI helps health care providers, community organizations, government agencies, and others strengthen all aspects of their HIV and STI services, including prevention, screening, and treatment.

Our HIV work

CAI has helped improve HIV services since the first days of the epidemic. We were one the of first organizations in the world to offer training in HIV counseling in 1985, and since that time we’ve been at the forefront of efforts to use education, training, and technical assistance to build broad-based capacity to respond effectively to the virus.

CAI has partnered with the CDC, HRSA, UNAIDS, The Global Fund, state public health departments, and others to strengthen the workforce and community capacity to first respond to—and now end—the HIV epidemic.

National trainings for HIV service providers offered in person and online

CAI currently leads two national efforts to advance the federal government’s Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S.

• The National HIV Classroom Learning Center (NHCLC) provides free training to a range of people who work in HIV prevention and services and is funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• The Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in) provides robust support and resources to leaders in 47 jurisdictions across the U.S. to enhance their work to prevent HIV.

Trainings offered in partnership with New York Health Department AIDS Institute

Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic in New York State, CAI has partnered with the AIDS Institute and provided critical capacity-building support.

• Our Center of Expertise for Online Training offers free online learning modules on topics including health equity and motivational interviewing. See the current on-demand trainings.
• The Regional Training Center (RTC) delivers more than 50 free training programs that build the capacity of nonclinical HIV service providers each year on topics such as implementing a sex-positive approach. Register for an upcoming RTC training .
• The Leadership Training Institute (LTI) utilizes a community-driven, peer-based approach that allows people living with HIV and hepatitis C, accessing harm reduction services and using PrEP to identify priority issues and to guide and inform the trainings and support we provide. More than 3,500 people have graduated from LTI.

Helping HIV-service organizations provide trauma-informed care

The New Jersey HIV Trauma-Informed Care Project provides training and technical assistance that is helping agencies integrate trauma-informed care into their culture and service delivery.

Our STI work

CAI’s work in the STI and HIV fields has also shown us the power of actively involving the people most impacted by public health crises in working toward equitable solutions.

Our Stop STD project [add info from and link to Maisha's project profile once approved]

CAI has also worked to build and strengthen partnerships between laboratories, health departments, and state family planning programs and their provider networks to establish, maintain, and use data to continuously improve chlamydia and gonorrhea screening and testing programs, foster adoption of new test technology, track and reduce STI laboratory test turnaround time, facilitate expedited partner treatment for chlamydia, and establish school-based systems to improve STI screening coverage.