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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a first amendment to the current agreement between the City of Long Beach and the State Department of Health Services, in an amount not to exceed $4,528,768, for the provision of HIV/AIDS preventive health services for a period of three years, and any subsequent amendments that increase future funding levels; and increase appropriations in the Health Fund (SR 130) in the Health and Human Services Department (HE) by $250,472. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
For the past 25 years, the State Department of Health Services (State) has contracted with the City to provide HIV/AIDS surveillance and clinical services, including care, testing, counseling, education, and outreach activities. The State provides funding for AIDS Surveillance, HIV Prevention which entails, HIV and Hepatitis C counseling, and testing, and HIV Care. These funds have been designated by the State for HIV and Hepatitis C testing with and without counseling. The annual breakdown is designated as follows:
The HIV Care Program (HCP), formally known, as the HIV Early Intervention Program (EIP) was established to provide quality of life enhancement to those infected with and affected by HIV, and to prevent further transmission and acquisition of the virus to those persons at risk. The HCP provides comprehensive, ongoing outpatient, ambulatory medical care and those services necessary to support access to and maintenance in medical care. Those services which support access to and maintenance in medical care include treatment adherence, health education/risk reduction, case management and other services which assist HIV infected individuals with overcoming barriers and assist them with linkages to, and transition into care. These new funds will increase our client caseload by 100 unduplicated clients per year.
The Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) provides services targeted to persons of color infected with HIV and must be planned ...
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