We’ve never been closer to being able to end the HIV epidemic. New, effective, and long-acting biomedical prevention tools and HIV medications have been developed in recent years. Alongside these innovations, it is essential to work with the people in greatest need. Funding and scaling effective HIV services, combined with the amazing biomedical innovations, is the key to reaching our goal.
Funding and scaling effective HIV services, combined with the amazing biomedical innovations, is the key to reaching our goal.
Many people aren’t aware that people living with HIV who are on effective treatment can live full lives over a normal lifespan. They also cannot pass HIV on to their sexual partners—a concept known as undetectable equals untransmittable.
Who is The AIDS Funding Collaborative?
Our mission is to strengthen the community’s response to HIV/AIDS as a public/private partnership providing coordination, leadership, advocacy, and funding in Cuyahoga County.
The AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC) is committed to supporting HIV/AIDS community involvement, leadership, and capacity building among professionals and people living with HIV/AIDS. As a trusted and respected leader with six funding partners, the AFC provides a coordinated, multi-sector approach to raising and distributing strategic funding in the HIV response.
The AFC is an intermediary funder that uses federal, state and local public and private funding toward a shared goal of ending the HIV epidemic in our community. Our proud 30-year partnership includes the ADAMHS Board of Cuyahoga County, City of Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga County, the George Gund Foundation, and the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation.
Join us for our 2025 Community Briefing
Each spring, the AFC hosts its annual community briefing with highlights of national HIV/AIDS-related summits and conferences from the past 12 months. Members of the HIV service community, and especially those who have received support through AFC discretionary grants, share their lessons learned in an informal setting. This is a much-anticipated opportunity to learn and network, where emerging science, best practices and advocacy priorities are shared.
This year, the AFC will also share the results of our Grantee Landscape Mapping Survey and discuss the current portfolio of public funding that supports HIV prevention and care services in Cuyahoga County.
The AFC Community Briefing will be held at The Centers’ Uptown Clinic Community Room, 12201 Euclid Avenue, on April 29th at noon.
Please register if you plan to attend, space is limited.
