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Prevention for Women

Prevention for Women is a program dedicated to reaching African American women who identify as females who have sex with men and who are at high-risk of being infected with HIV. CAL-PEP reaches out to this population through street, individual and group interventions and workshops to encourage safer sex and risk reduction techniques including increased condom usage.

The objectives of this program are to make contact with women in Alameda County who identify as females who have sex with men, to educate about safer sex, to provide and distribute safer sex materials, and to encourage risk and harm reduction techniques among this population.

The goal of this program is to reduce the rate of HIV transmission among high-risk, HIV negative females who have sex with males in Alameda County.

SISTA Project

The SISTA Project (Sistas Informing Sistas about Topics on AIDS) is a peer-led skil-building intervention project to prevent HIV infection in African American women. It is primarily targeted toward African American women who identify as heterosexual but can be altered to address women of any ethnicity and orientation.

The SISTA Project is delivered in a five session series. Each session is two hours. One session is delivered per week to different women’s centers and facilities in Alameda County. These centers and facilities include drug treatment/recovery centers, shelters, juvenile court systems, etc. Each group may consist of between 10-12 individuals. Each session addresses issues of self-esteem, relationships, and sexual health. Each session has a specific topic. The topics for each session, in order, are: Ethnic/Gender pride, HIV/AIDS Education, Assertiveness Skills Training, Behavioral Self-Management, and Coping Skills.

The objective of the Project is to give women the social and behavioral skills they need to adopt HIV risk reduction strategies with emphasis on teaching women the skills necessary to be sexually assertive so they can negotiate safer sex behaviors and demonstrate proper condom usage.

The goal of the project is to reduce sexual risk behavior of heterosexually active African American women at highest risk of HIV exposure.

If you are from a center or facility and are interested in the SISTA Project, please contact us (510) 874-7850.

Community Forums

Every three months, CAL-PEP strives to throw a Community Forum. Community Forums invite members of the HIV positive community to speak to communities at high risk of HIV exposure. A variety of members of the Oakland, Alameda, and wider Bay Area communities are invited to speak about HIV/AIDS, how HIV/AIDS has affected them, their families, and their local communities.

The objective of our Community Forums is to address and deconstruct the stigma attached to disease. We send the message that HIV/AIDS does not discriminate and it is 100% preventable.