Goal 15 – Eliminate barriers to care

Remove structural and institutional barriers that adversely affect communities experiencing disparities to ensure all people are provided high-quality, equitable care.

Strategy 45 – Ensure priority communities have access to culturally, linguistically and medically appropriate care and supportive services by creating and integrating standards of equity into existing organizational policies and practices.

Strategy 46 – Provide capacity building services and establish funder expectations to ensure that HIV service organizations reflect the communities they serve and work diligently to dismantle or transform institutional policies and practices that compromise the wellbeing of their own workforce. Revised policies may include:

• Encouraging employment of people with criminal records,
• Not requiring professional degrees unless absolutely necessary,
• Providing time off and flexible scheduling,
• Providing opportunities for upward mobility, and
• Providing a living wage.

Strategy 47 – Ensure that the development and implementation of behavioral and clinical interventions for communities experiencing disparities are aligned with root cause analysis findings and are evidence-based. 

Strategy 48 – Ensure priority populations have access to trauma-informed services that work to mitigate the violence being experienced by communities at the individual, community and institutional level, including intimate-partner violence within different-gender and same-gender relationships.

Strategy 49 – Improve public and private health insurance coverage for all individuals experiencing disparities.