LIVE CONSORTIUM is the next generation in health and wellness nonprofit initiatives. Comprised of diverse members of the Houston community, LIVE CONSORTIUM provides HIV and Anti-Stigma education, support, research, and advocacy to allow all people, regardless of status, can have healthy and full lives.
VISION
LIVE CONSORTIUM is unique in its ability to create a new image of health and wellness, regardless of HIV status, in which all people can identify. Through "the diver", LIVE CONSORTIUM will exemplify breaking through the barriers that divide people and prevent them from living a full and vital life.
Specifically, LIVE CONSORTIUM will teach awareness of stigmatization, disseminate accurate, research-based information on healthy living, urge public policy development that provides for prevention and healthcare for all people, and assist people in accessing other public/private resources and services that they need.
Research and proactively reduce negative effects of social stigmas.
Provide health and wellness information, education, and support.
Facilitate people in finding the organization or entity, service, and/or program that best fit their health or wellness need.
MISSION
LIVE CONSORTIUM provides HIV and Anti-Stigma education, support, research, and advocacy so that all people, regardless of status, can have the opportunity to live healthy and full lives.
OBJECTIVES
Provide HIV health and wellness information and programs to those in need.
Facilitate, through an easy to use web-based program, tools by which every
individual can efficiently locate the HIV service or program and organization which best
can help fulfill the individual’s specific need.
Reduce HIV stigma.
Research HIV Stigma in combination with social situations and how those issues affect individuals and populations around the world.
Bring all health and wellness organizations together in a collaborative effort aimed toward healing the whole human being.
Develop marketing tools to best communicate and educate college-aged individuals.
Collaborate with various universities and colleges in order to research and compile data on HIV health issues
and HIV Stigma affects social and academic life of
college-aged individuals.
Educate all people how to live in our World affected by HIV.
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.
Promote proactive HIV prevention by all people through a campaign of accurate HIV
information, social communication, community compassion, and understanding.
Offer social forums through which every individual, regardless of status, will be
comfortable in seeking, sharing, and giving HIV 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, can empathize, and help mentor the newly affected individual through the initial
stages of how to continue to live a healthy and full life in our World affected by HIV.
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.
