Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Address: 3808 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis MN 55409 Project Director: Matt Toburen, Executive Director Phone: 612-822-7946 Email: matt@aliveness.org Website: www.aliveness.org The Aliveness Project requests $1,000,000 to support the construction and expansion of our HIV prevention clinic, THRIVE, including an HIV specialty pharmacy and trauma informed spaces to serve individuals living with HIV, and those at greatest risk for HIV. This project will allow us to accommodate the substantial need for care services and facilitate even greater growth for prevention services exacerbated by the twin pandemics of HIV and COVID. The HIV pandemic has significantly changed since The Aliveness Project moved into our current space in South Minneapolis in 2015. At that time, there were 8,000 people living with HIV in Minnesota; today there are more than 10,000 such people. One of the main tools in preventing HIV, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), was approved by the FDA in 2012. PrEP is a once-daily pill that is 99% effective at preventing HIV. Injectable PrEP being approved in 2021. In summer 2021, The Aliveness Project opened THRIVE, Minnesota’s first free PrEP clinic, increasing access for populations at the highest risk of HIV transmission. Despite advances in treatment, access to life-saving HIV and STI medications remains a challenge for many individuals due to cost barriers, stigma, and limited availability. Since the need and audience for PrEP is enormous, The Aliveness Project is in the process of building a specialized pharmacy. THRIVE RX would be dedicated to exclusively providing such medication and comprehensive support to individuals living with HIV and those in need of STI medications. The most powerful thing The Aliveness Project can do to end HIV is get people on and stay on PrEP. THRIVE RX will work to ensure that these medications are affordable and readily accessible to all who need them.
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