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Train the Trainer Professional Development Program

The Train the Trainer Program is a rigorous peer education and leadership training designed to enhance women’s experience with living with HIV by advancing their HIV knowledge and professional skills to deliver HIV awareness,...

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February 24, 2025 0

We Want You To Know… This year on March 10th is the 20th National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). The purpose of NWGHAAD, 25 years after the start of the epidemic, was and is to increase the knowledge and reduce the impact of HIV on women and girls.

March 10th this year marks the 20th anniversary of the National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD). Launched 25 years after the start of the AIDS epidemic by the U.S Department of...

February 20, 2025 0

We want you to know that one in four people living with HIV in the United States is a woman and in 2021, 30.2% of all new HIV infections in Massachusetts were women, this is a significant increase in the numbers of women currently becoming infected and at risk for HIV.

This is vital to understand for many of these women are of childbearing age. In fact, every year, approximately 5,000 women with HIV give birth in the United States. In addition to primary...

Healing Our Community Collaborative, Inc. (HOCC)

Program Location:
Old South Church
645 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

Phone: (617) 285-7755
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://hoccprograms.org

Our Mission

HOCC’s mission is to empower women living with, affected by, or at risk for HIV by creating and maintaining a collaborative group of care providers and consumers whose shared purpose is to: improve health literacy and self-care; advance knowledge about women’s experience of HIV/AIDS and other disease processes; enhance problem-solving capacities and self-advocacy; promote healthy lifestyle & behavior changes; create solutions together to prevent HIV infection and transmission; reduce health disparities in women of color; and improve access to and retention in optimal care settings.