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About LinCS 2 Durham

Project Information

The name LinCS 2 Durham represents our aspiration of Linking Communities and Scientists to Durham HIV Prevention. The high rate of HIV in Durham is an urgent public health issue that affects us all. The LinCS 2 Durham project unites community members with scientists so together we can decide what research needs to be done to prevent HIV in the Black community. We want to understand concerns people have about HIV, medical care, and medical research, and then work together to address those concerns.

LinCS 2 Durham does not involve any medical or experimental research. Instead, this project does provide communities and scientists the opportunity to talk, listen, and learn in order to help direct the course of future HIV-prevention research. [Read More]

Photograph by Lisa Marie Albert

Partners and Sponsors

LinCS 2 Durham is a five-year research project undertaken by FHI, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), the Durham County Health Department (DCHD), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The National Institute of Nursing Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, is providing the funding. [Read More]

Key Staff

Our key staff plays an active role in leadership and draw on each other's unique strengths. [Read More]

Methodology

LinCS 2 Durham brings together a wide array of organizations and individuals (also referred to as stakeholders) who care about the impact of HIV in Durham: people who live and work here, people who provide HIV-related services, local scientists working on HIV, people who volunteer for HIV-related research studies, and the community advocates and policy-makers who are working for positive change for HIV prevention and services. Together we want to identify and pursue the best HIV-prevention research opportunities for Durham’s Black community. [Read More]                 

Photograph by Lisa Marie Albert

                 

Real Talk

Click here to listen to a local African-American researcher, therapist, teacher, minister, playwright, and novelist discuss HIV's impact on Black communities. LinCS 2 Durham staff member and Collaborative Council coordinator Randy Rogers talks about why these communities carry the epidemic's heaviest burden and what the LinCS 2 Durham partnership is doing about it.