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The total contents of this page were updated at the Annual Meeting on November 21, 2021.

Mission

The Beyond AIDS Foundation is committed to reversing the global HIV pandemic through: 1) support for innovative and effective sound public health policy and programs, and 2) identifying areas of collaboration and integration of services that improve the sexual health of the nation and the world.

GOAL

To hasten the decline of HIV in the U.S. and around the world through: 1) early identification of HIV-infected individuals, viral suppression through treatment and other prevention measures, and 2) identifying and addressing the social determinants of health that affect HIV and other STIs.

OBJECTIVES

• Support the identification of all HIV infections through confidential, routine screening of the population, and reporting of all new diagnoses to public health services.
  
  
• Advocate for Public Health follow-up of all reported HIV diagnoses, including linkage to immediate and compassionate care, partner services, counseling, referrals for other services as individually indicated, and syndemic issues of stigma, mental health problems such a depression, homelessness and housing insecurity, and poverty can be addressed.
  
  
• Support expanded and innovative public health surveillance that facilitates patient entry into and progression through the HIV Care Continuum including retention in care, and that monitors for viral resistance to treatment.
  
  
• Promote rapid initiation and maintenance of treatment to achieve viral suppression, comprehensive care, treatment of substance abuse, and other measures to optimize health outcomes and to prevent further transmission.
  
  
• Recommend condom use, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and other safer sexual practices for persons at high risk of exposure to HIV.

DECLARATIONS OF BEYOND AIDS: PRINCIPLES WE STAND FOR

• Decades into the HIV/AIDS epidemic significant progress has been made, but better approaches are needed for better results including ensuring that health equity is prioritized.
  
  
• Persons infected with HIV, their healthcare providers, and public health should work in partnership, each with their respective responsibilities, to minimize the chances of further transmission.
  
  
• “Status neutral” strategies are necessary where the same approach is used to engage and retain people in care regardless of their HIV and STI status.
  
  
• Routine screening and testing for HIV and other STIs, and public health education about their shared prevention measures, should be integrated whenever possible.
  
  
• HIV and other STI testing should be simple, accessible and routine, and include self-testing and specimen collection at home.
  
  
• HIV/AIDS remains a public health priority and should not be treated as a public health exception.
  
  
• Persons with HIV should be empowered to live their lives with honor, respect, freedom from stigma, discrimination, and poverty, and with the capacity to stop further spread of the virus.
  
  
• The Beyond AIDS Foundation seeks to promote not merely what is currently politically feasible, but what is ultimately necessary to one day see a world in which HIV and other STIs have declined to such low prevalence that they are no longer significant public health problems.