Reports and Documents
Part A MAI Service Area Priorities FY 2025 and 2026
Disparities Elimination Committee minutes 
​Recommendations for the Membership and Training Committee
Recommendations from the Gender Identity in Surveillance Data Subcommittee
​2014-2018 MSP-TGA Health Disparities Analysis Presentation  

2017 Prevention RFP Prioritized Populations
MDH Data Presentation: HIV in Minnesota 2013-2016
2017 Prevention RFP Prioritized Populations

Disparities Elimination Committee Responsibilities

The Disparities Elimination Committee exists to develop equitable strategies to ensure that the Council’s priorities and resource allocations address and reduce disparities within underserved and disproportionately impacted populations in access to HIV prevention, care services and outcomes based on the stages of the HIV Care Continuum: awareness of diagnosis; linkage to care; retention in care; receiving ART; and achieving suppressed virus. Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion.” 

The Disparities Elimination Committee’s duties include:

• Providing input into the selection of target populations for prevention funding.
• Proposing Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) services to be prioritized and funded and allocation amounts.
• Develop the section of the statewide HIV prevention and services jurisdictional plan that addresses disparities, including the development of goals and objectives.
• Inform needs assessment process – disproportionately impacted population sample targets, outreach, promotion and cultural competency of needs assessment. 
• Monitor jurisdictional comprehensive plan goals and objectives that are specific to disparate communities.
• Develop cultural competency, universal or service specific standards of care for Ryan White services.
• Conduct outreach to disproportionately impacted communities to assure engagement.
• Advise Membership and Training Committee on cultural competency development of council.
  
• Improve equity literacy among council members and government agencies.