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Mission
The mission of the Minnesota Council for HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention is to:
- Establish priorities for the allocation of Part A and Part B funds of the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 within the thirteen county Transitional Grant Area (TGA) and the state of Minnesota. In other words, the council is responsible for deciding which services are most needed for people with HIV and how much funding will be used for each of those service areas.
- Prioritize the highest-risk populations for HIV prevention interventions funded through Minnesota’s CDC HIV prevention grant and State appropriation.
- Develop and prepare an integrated prevention and care plan for the Minneapolis/St. Paul 13-county Transitional Grant Area (TGA) and the state of Minnesota. This plan defines short and long-term goals for organizing and delivering care and prevention services; this includes the Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need (SCSN).
- Assure community participation in the gathering of information related to needs, service priorities, and high-risk populations for prevention.
- Assess the efficiency of the system the Part A recipient uses to distribute funds. This includes evaluating how quickly contracts with service providers are signed, how quickly the recipient pays the providers, whether the funds were used for services identified as priorities by the council and whether all the funds were spent.
- Participate in developing a Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need (SCSN). Representatives of the council must participate with representatives of all the other Parts of the legislation in developing a Coordinated Statement of Need. The purpose of the SCSN is to encourage all of the Ryan White programs to work together and to avoid the duplication of services.
- Commit to address disparities linked to social determinants of health like poverty, unequal access to health care, lack of education, stigma, and racism to achieve parity.
Vision
The vision of the council is that people living with, at risk for HIV or affected by HIV, with an emphasis on those from disparately impacted communities, receive the education and help they need to link to care, remain in care and virally suppressed, stopping the spread of the virus and ultimately eradicating HIV.
Council responsibilities
It is the responsibilities of the council to inform the development, update, and monitoring of the Minnesota comprehensive jurisdictional plan for HIV prevention, care, and treatment, to allocate federal Ryan White funds for Part A for HIV treatment and care services, and to make allocation recommendations for Part B HIV treatment and care services.
The council shall:
- Elect co-chairs.
- Identify and collaborate with appropriate stakeholders in HIV prevention and treatment planning to participate in a comprehensive engagement process.
- Engage in a planning, prioritization, allocation process that is results-oriented to ensure that the goals of the National HIV/AIDS strategy (NHAS) (i.e., reduce new HIV infections, increase access to care and to improve health outcomes for people living with HIV; and reduce HIV-related health disparities) are achieved.
- Conduct needs assessments.
- Prioritize populations most at-risk for HIV infection or transmission and cofactors that impact that risk.
- Establish service area priorities for funding, based on needs assessment and other data available for the priority setting and resource allocation process. Allocate resources only to service areas that have been prioritized.
- Allocate resources only to service areas that have been prioritized.
- Evaluate the speed and efficiency of the disbursement of Part A funds.
- Inform, develop/update a comprehensive plan for the development, organization and delivery of HIV prevention and care services in collaboration with state and local service providers.
- Submit a letter of concurrence, concurrence with reservations, or non- concurrence to document whether or not the MDH’s jurisdictional HIV prevention plan shows that programmatic activities and resources are being allocated to the most disproportionately affected populations and geographical areas that bear the greatest burden of HIV disease.
- Ensure broad community involvement in all phases of operations and establishing community needs and priorities.
- Ensure membership structure achieves community and key stakeholder representation (parity and inclusion).
- Identify and include disproportionately affected populations in all phases of the planning process, and in council leadership.
- Make decisions that are data-driven and informed by the understanding of:
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Principles
- We value cultural diversity, inclusion, parity, and expertise.
- We expect and will pursue diversity of membership.
- We are all advocates for reducing/preventing disease.
- We have a responsibility to bring forth voices from the communities we represent. These voices, along with data, drive overall priority prevention and needs in the state.
- We are a community-planning group, not a direct action or advocacy organization.
See current membership and recipient representatives listed on the Home page.
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