Communities Forward- A Community-Based Comprehensive HIV Prevention, Counseling and Testing Program to Reduce HIV Incidence

The purpose of this program is to: 1) apply strategic evidence-based communications interventions at multiple levels for greater effectiveness and such evidence maybe grounded in the social sciences or biomedical sciences as relevant to the context the program; 2) strengthen communities to lead and sustain comprehensive HIV prevention and sexual and gender- sensitive responses; and 3) expand high quality and targeted community based counseling and testing services that optimize effective linkages to care, treatment and prevention.