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Key Findings

1. Through an eight-year collaboration with faith and public health leaders in Los Angeles, RAND developed and evaluated an intervention to reduce HIV stigma and promote HIV testing in African American and Latino churches and found the intervention feasible to implement and acceptable to congregants.
2. The intervention reduced HIV stigma and mistrust in the participating Latino churches and increased HIV testing across African American and Latino congregations.
3. Stigma reduction and HIV testing seemed to work in synergy.

With their extensive social reach and influence across diverse communities, faith-based organizations have an exceptional opportunity to help address human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) worldwide. But in these efforts, many congregations face constraints, including limited size and resources, as well as competing social needs and ministries.