Organizational Objectives
• Provide HIV-related health and wellness information and programs to those in need.
• Reduce HIV-related stigmas.
• Conduct innovative research into the effects of HIV-related stigma and the interventions used to address such stigmas.
• Bring health and wellness organizations together in a collaborative effort aimed toward healing the whole human being.
• Provide basic HIV information to every individual affected by HIV and the community at large.
• Advocate for a stigma-free world in which everyone, regardless of HIV status, can have the opportunity to live a healthy and
full life.
• Fight HIV ignorance, apathy, denial, and complacency.
• Dispel HIV myths from the 1980's and 1990's.
• Sponsor social forums through which every individual, regardless of status, will be comfortable in seeking, sharing, and
giving HIV-related information, education, and emotional support.
• Afford every individual newly affected by HIV the opportunity to seek and receive emotional support, compassion, and peer
guidance from someone who is similarly situated and can help mentor the newly affected individual through the initial stages
of how to continue to live a healthy and full life.
• Collaborate with Houston-based, national, and international AIDS service organizations, government entities, and
community service organizations to ensure that all people, regardless of status, ages, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual
orientation, religious belief, gender identity, economic status, physical ability, and education level are provided essential HIV
information, education, and support.
• Encourage HIV infected individuals to seek treatment.