New York Linking Information Networking Knowledge (NY LINK) CAI offers other programs related to HIV/AIDS.  The NY LINK is a technology transfer and resource exchange project that joins together people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and health care providers from the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and New York City. So far over 200 representatives from 18 countries have participated in the NY LINK, working together with U.S.-based counterparts to share and develop HIV/AIDS programmatic strategies on risk reduction and behavior change, HIV counseling and testing, leadership development of PLWHA, treatment and adherence, and the development and maintenance of multidisciplinary teams to implement these programs. Multidisciplinary teams, composed of at least a physician, a nurse, and two PLWHAs, participate in training of trainer (TOT) programs to increase their capacity to develop and implement training programs in-country. Multidisciplinary teams also participate in a series of twinning activities during which physicians and nurses are matched with HIV/AIDS clinical experts, and PLWHA twin with New York City community-based organizations, PLWHA networks, and other community leaders. As a result of these twinning activities, New York-based organizations gain new strategies and insights on improving their outreach and services to immigrant populations, and visitors increase their capacity to offer training programs in their home countries. The NY LINK program is supported by the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, the New York City Mayor's Office on AIDS Policy Coordination, New York Community Trust, UNAIDS, and UN Volunteers. Cicatelli Associates Incorporated, 505 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1600, New York, NY  10018 phone: (212) 594-7741 / fax: (212) 629-3321 http://www.cicatelli.org If you experience problems browsing this page, please send e-mail to webmaster © Copyright 2004, Cicatelli Associates Inc. site map