Goal 3 – Strengthen representation

Increase opportunities for people living with or vulnerable to HIV to receive services from providers who are of the same race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or lived experience.

• Strategy 6 – Address institutional barriers that prohibit hiring and advancement of peers and increase the number of peers who work for a living wage at all levels of organizations in the health care, public health and community-based HIV sectors. Efforts must focus on elevating Black and Latino/Latinx gay, bisexual, and other MSM; cisgender Black heterosexual women; people of transgender experience; and older adults to leadership positions.

• Strategy 7 – Create sustainable employment for people living with or vulnerable to HIV.