Funding is available to enable these organizations to design local programs for improving information access for AIDS patients and the affected community as well as their caregivers.
Emphasis is on providing information or access in a way meaningful to the target community.
Funding from NLM will allow Union Positiva to develop and maintain an organizational web site. The web site will also offer a chat capability and the organization will host monthly chats with Spanish speaking physicians to answer questions online about HIV prevention, treatment and adherence. There will also be monthly chats with their outreach workers and peer counselors. Union Positiva will provide direct training to clients at their facility and in the community so that these clients can learn to access the Internet. The program will train the teens to create a website for two high schools with school-based health centers.