​The expanded cross-network Legacy Project will build on the current efforts and successes of the HVTN Legacy Program, a program that has established a blueprint for increasing engagement and collaborative efforts between the populations most impacted and researchers and their institutions while addressing historic inequities to overcome the demographic and socio-economic disparities that threaten all DAIDS-funded research and ultimately the communities and populations they serve. Extensive work on partnership and relationship development, both internal among DAIDS-funded networks and external will ensure that the work of the Legacy Project impacts DAIDS-funded research, while ensuring the commitment of capacity building and infrastructure development within the communities and populations most impacted by the domestic HIV epidemic.

Additionally, the Legacy Project will provide insight on the impact of historic health disparities, inequities and co-morbidities to HIV risk, and other disease/opportunistic infections that impact the US populations most impacted by the pandemic. The Legacy Project will also ensure continued efforts toward building collaborative relationships with community-based and national organizations in order to increase enrollment of African Americans, Latinos and Latinas across all DAIDS-funded HIV clinical trials. The Legacy Project focus will be on maintaining and developing relationships with key organizations/ partners in and among the populations most impacted, private and public organizations to examine the various factors leading to the increased rates of HIV/AIDS among these populations, such as but not limited to, the socio-economic, psychological and other relational factors. In addition, the Legacy Project will assess the attitudes of research, HIV stigma and the historic social constructs of race, power, privilege and other social justice issues.