Living your best life with HIV 1 recommendations 2 recommendations

Where does quality of life, wellness and wellbeing fit within the cascade? Realize has taken a leadership role in investigating what optimal health and wellbeing mean to people living with HIV in an effort to better understand the issues, barriers, and gaps that interfere with their ability to achieve it. [...] This process has included: consensus-building activities with researchers, and health professionals; holding community consultations with people with lived experience of HIV; and co-hosting a series of meetings with subject matter experts and people living with HIV to conceptualize optimal health and wellbeing for this population. [...] Existing programs and policies have been developed in ways that create gaps for people living Involve people living with HIV in with HIV. [...] Policy makers have a responsibility to decisions about policy and actively engage with people living with HIV to create programming related to HIV, health policies and programs to improve their quality of life. [...] However, people living with HIV and long-term funding of successfully community-based HIV organizational staff indicate researched HIV programming that although successful programs have been developed and researched, they have rarely been provided with long-term funding to implement these programs after the research is complete.