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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary documents, with the State Department of Health Services for funding the provision of HIV/AIDS preventive health services for an amount not to exceed $6,597,846 for a period of three years, to be appropriated on an annual basis; and increase appropriations in the Health Fund
(SR 130) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HE) by $731,120. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
For the past 23 years, the State Department of Health Services (State) has contracted with the City to provide HIV/AIDS clinical services, education, outreach, and surveillance activities. The State provides funding for HIV Prevention, HIV Counseling and Testing, AIDS Surveillance, and the Early Intervention Program. The City has received additional funding in the amount of $332,931 per year ($998,793 over 3 years), which has been designated by the State as follows (annually) for the following two components of the program:
Annual Additional New Annual
Funding Funding Funding
Early Intervention/Bridge: $ 590,800 $ 253,950 $ 844,750
HIV/AIDS Surveillance: 240,000 78,981 318,981
Total Per Year: $ 830,800 $ 332,931 $ 1,163,731
The funding levels of the other three components of this program will remain the same, and along with the new increases, amount to the total grant award of $6,597,846 for the three-year period.
Early Intervention Program:
The following outlines the new activities associated with these funds:
AIDS/HIV Early Intervention Program
The Early Intervention Program was established to provide quality of life enhancement to those infected with HIV and to prevent further transmission and acquisition of the virus to those persons at risk. The EIP Program includes medical services, treatment advocacy and health education, case management, risk reduction counseling, partner notification, and services which...
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