LIVE FREE
• LIVE CONSORTIUM, a Houston-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, educates the Houston community not only about HIV & AIDS, but also about how to break through the harmful barriers preventing individuals from talking about the disease.
• LIVE Founder and CEO, Beau Miller, was inspired to create an AIDS Services Organization dedicated to fighting HIV-related stigma after he faced social discrimination as someone living with HIV. Consequently, LIVE was established on January 27, 2009.
• LIVE holds firm in the belief that by reducing HIV-related stigma, more people will get tested, enter treatment, and talk openly about HIV to others. With a more informed community, more people will see the need for HIV prevention, a cure, and a life free of isolating secrecy.
About Us
LIVE ALL
• LIVE sponsors HIV education and research based programs so that all individuals, regardless of status, know the real concerns regarding HIV, and can LIVE a full and healthy life without giving or feeling the pain of stigma and isolation.
LIVE NOW
• LIVE works closely with the Houston community and other AIDS Services Organizations to facilitate its Men’s and Women’s Education Initiatives.
• LIVE sponsors Inspire, a confidential mentoring program designed for newly tested positive individuals, as well as for family members , friends, spouses, and partners of those living with HIV and AIDS.
• LIVE sponsors the LIVE for the CURE and LIVE Advocacy education forums in an effort to address major issues impacting the HIV community here in Houston.
• LIVE developed its University Anti-Stigma Campaign as a means to raise HIV awareness among young adults about the harmful effects of HIV and HIV-related stigma.
• LIVE has presented its academic research into the effects of HIV-related stigma at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, the 2010 National HIV Summit, and the 2011 International AIDS Impact Conference. In addition, LIVE’s research has been peer reviewed and published in scientific publications such as the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
• Team LIVE was the top 2012 AIDS Walk Houston fundraising team by raising nearly $95,000.
LIVE AHEAD
• LIVE will expand its HIV education and awareness efforts, sponsor research to better understand the effects of HIV-related stigma, and encourage all to stand proudly as someone who can help end the spread of HIV and stigma.
• LIVE is developing additional education programs targeting communities of color.
• LIVE is standardizing its University Anti-Stigma Campaign model in order for other organizations to use at college campuses worldwide.
• LIVE plans to expand its services to a regional and national scale in the coming years.