What is the Delaware HIV Consortium?
The Delaware HIV Consortium is a statewide non-profit organization established to facilitate collaboration among its members and to ensure that quality, non-duplicative HIV treatment and prevention services are available throughout Delaware. Our membership includes HIV/AIDS service providers, civic leaders, public health professionals, representatives of private business, and persons living with HIV disease. The Consortium operates several statewide working committees, which are governed by a duly elected Board of Trustees. The Consortium works to better the lives of Delawareans with HIV through service coordination, community participation, and consumer involvement. Over the years the Consortium has added innovative programming to the array of HIV/AIDS services in Delaware, including HIV Information Libraries and Resource Centers, an HIV Drug Education, Support and Adherence Program, a tenant-based rental assistance program for those living with HIV/AIDS, and two site-based housing programs for individuals with HIV and mental illness.
The Consortium:
 
  • Believes that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a crisis that requires community planning and action
  • Promotes participation from all communities
  • Shares the responsibility in an epidemic that affects everyone
  • Works for increased awareness of the HIV epidemic and of HIV activities in Delaware
  • Seeks to include active participation of those living with HIV in the planning of statewide services
  • Creates, implements and helps support treatment-related services and housing assistance to those living with HIV in Delaware
  • Disseminates meaningful and accurate information to improve the quality of services to persons living with HIV/AIDS and to reduce the stigma of HIV/AIDS in our communities
  • Supports the implementation of housing opportunities for persons with HIV/AIDS so that they are able to live with stability and dignity in order to maximize health-related outcomes
  • Works to identify and secure diversified funding streams to address the unmet needs of those living with HIV disease in Delaware