Help Us End
The HIV Epidemic
Join the DHIT HIV Innovation Sprint
in Collaboration with Gilead
Where should HIV prevention efforts be focused? The Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT), in collaboration with Gilead, is facilitating answers to that question by engaging communities in three cities in the Southeast starting this fall.
The DHIT HIV Innovation Sprint in Collaboration with Gilead will bring people who could benefit from HIV prevention together with those serving the community to match unmet needs with available resources.
We’re calling those with an interest in HIV prevention to join us. It’s your chance to shape the next wave of efforts to end the HIV epidemic.
Be a part of...
Enhancing awareness, engagement and trust in the HIV community
Building capacity to create and sustain community programs aimed at ending the HIV epidemic
Innovating to drive health improvement
Increasing access to best practices and resources in preventing HIV
HIV Prevention: More Work to Do
The fight to end the HIV epidemic in the US has made encouraging progress in the past few years. New infections fell by nearly 8% from 2019 to 2021, for example, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While a lot of progress has been made toward ending the HIV epidemic, some new approaches and interventions are needed.
Patients, caregivers, individuals who could benefit from prevention, and populations most affected by HIV very often don’t have access to the resources they need. At the same time, health educators, innovators and entrepreneurs who have a lot to offer the HIV community often struggle to reach those in need. The sprint aims to end this mismatch.
How You Can Get Involved
If you’re involved in any facet of HIV prevention, you can contribute to the innovation sprint in many ways – by participating in sessions in your city, by promoting the events to your networks and by sharing knowledge and resources, to name but a few.
The Sprint: How It Works
The DHIT HIV Innovation Sprint in Collaboration with Gilead will engage all parts of the HIV prevention community in a facilitated effort. People in Miami, FL, Birmingham, AL, and New Orleans, LA will be invited to join the sprint in the fall of 2024 and continue participating through the end of the sprint in March 2025.
The sprint will surface fresh ideas through design thinking. Elements include:
- Discovery Day in each city
- Two-day Design Challenge in each city
- Discussion on challenges, resources, goals and needs
- Curation of ideas and input from each city
- Discussions, knowledge-sharing and report-outs at the North Carolina Health Innovation District Summit, March 18-19, 2025 in Charlotte, NC
Who's Behind This
DHIT is leading the sprint in collaboration with Gilead Sciences, a company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative therapeutics for people with life-threatening diseases.