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As a local and national leader, TAUW identifies and facilitates solutions to community needs:
Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership (TCAP)
TAUW is one of the first United Ways to fund services for people with HIV/AIDS.
Support has been given to TCAP since 1993 in an effort to strengthen our community’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
TCAP represents a collaboration between TAUW and the National AIDS Fund as financial partners. Through TCAP, TAUW leverages resources because the National AIDS Fund matches $1 for every $2 raised locally. The Community Service Council (CSC) is the third partner with responsibility for assessing community needs for HIV prevention and care, fundraising, administering grant selection and monitoring results.
Representatives from corporations, foundations, the medical community, volunteers and persons living with HIV and AIDS act as advisors and overseers of the grant program. In 2005, TCAP provided funding for 12 HIV prevention and care grants totaling $137,600. In the last eleven years TCAP granted 1.6 million dollars to HIV/AIDS programs and sponsored a National AIDS Fund AmeriCorps Team working in Tulsa HIV prevention and care services each of those years.
Programs focus on prevention among high risk populations as well as care and treatment services for those living with HIV/AIDS. This could include help with rent, utility deposits, food and nutritional supplements, insurance, prescription drug therapy, medical transportation and more. Services also provide an opportunity to work with individuals on personal responsibility issues and risk reduction behavior.
Through TCAP, TAUW and CSC have received national recognition for developing HIV/AIDS prevention programs for women at high risk for contracting the disease. TAUW’s commitment to HIV/AIDS prevention and care continues to be strong because new HIV infections continue to increase in Oklahoma and Tulsa. TCAP prevention grants help people at risk get informed about HIV transmission, seek HIV testing, and go for early medical care and treatment if they test positive.
TCAP works closely with the AIDS Coalition of Tulsa and the Oklahoma State Department of Health. For more information contact Janice Nicklas at 585-5551.
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