Today, more than ever before, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are increasingly becoming a fundamental global health priority because of their devastating consequences on the health, social and economic wellbeing of infected and affected populations (Bryan, 2009). The HIV/AIDS epidemic, in particular, has demonstrated many serious and wide-ranging consequences not only for the infected persons, but also for the whole community (Desmond, 2009). The present paper employs the community-as-partner model to evaluate the health consequences of HIV/AIDS. Extant literature demonstrates that community-as-partner model is a systems approach that provides directions to the types of community systems requiring to be evaluated when undertaking a community evaluation (Lundy & Jones, 2009). The concepts in the model, according to these authors, include “the community core, eight interacting community subsystems, community stressors and boundaries titled normal level of defense, flexible line of defense, and lines of resistance” (p. 38). Below, an assessment of the health consequences of HIV/AIDS in XYZ community is done using the model The core of the community basically entails the people residing in the community of practice, implying that assessment of health implications will be done based on demographic characteristics as well as the values and beliefs of community members (Lundy & Jones, 2009). Hospital data shows that out of 1200 families residing in the community, an estimated 200 people have the disease and 100 families are affected either directly or indirectly. The values and beliefs held by community members still stigmatizes persons with HIV/AIDS in terms of viewing them as sexually irresponsible and as people with loose morals. The stigmatization brings negative health outcomes for people with HIV/AIDS in terms of elevated stress and depression levels. In assessing the eight interacting community subsystems, it can be argued that the physical environment of the community encourages promiscuous behavior due to the large presence of entertainment facilities and night joints. In terms of health and social services, it can be argued that although HIV/AIDS-infected persons within the community have access to antiretroviral therapy provided by the two public health facilities, there are other additional health challenges associated with antiretroviral therapy, including adverse toxic effects, living with the virus for a long time and hence spreading it to more people, and emergence of other diseases associated with increased uptake of antiretroviral drugs (Pitts et al., 2005). Assessment of the economic subsystem demonstrates that people living with HIV/AIDS are often unable to take healthy diets since most of them are not economically productive when they suffer from other opportunistic diseases. Lack of healthy diets only serves to increase the disease burden within the community. In the safety and transportation subsystem of the model, it is clear that safety of people living with HIV within the community is always guaranteed by the close proximity of the health facilities, and individuals can seek for medical attention almost immediately using availab