Supporting People Living with HIV
REACH is working to evaluate evidence on the barriers that keep many people with HIV from staying in care.
Barriers like cost of treatment, unstable housing, food insecurity, access to skilled providers, geography, and mental health and addiction issues prevent many people with HIV from connecting with and staying in care, which eventually prevents them from further achieving the undetectable viral load that will enable them to live with HIV while breaking the cycle of HIV transmission.
We are working to develop and test evidence-based strategies to overcome these barriers and to connect and sustain the connections of people to care, including through a focus on using health counsellors and peer navigators.