TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute agreement with Los Angeles County to provide Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Health Education/Risk Reduction and Prevention Services in the amount of $208,955, for a period of two years; and increase appropriations in the Health Fund
(SR 130) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HE) by
$104,478 for the period from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005.
(Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Forthe past nine years , the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been
providing Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(HIV/AIDS) health education/risk reduction and prevention services programs through an
agreement with the Los Angeles County Office of AIDS Prevention and Policy. The
programs are intended to provide services to target populations of women at sexual risk
men who have sex with men , and men who have sex with men and women in the South
Bay area. During the previous fiscal year, the programs reached over 1,450 adolescents
through outreach , 370 through risk-reduction workshops , and 21 through intensive one-onone
counseling sessions. Post-intervention assessments found that most participants
stated that they knew the steps needed to protect themselves from HIV infection and that
they would use at least one risk-reduction behavior for protection.
The new agreement will consolidate two projects into a single program with the same goals
of increasing education on HIV transmission among behavior-risk groups and promote
behavior change. The new agreement wil also provide funding which will allow the DHHS
to provide services for an additional 2 years , from January 1 2005 to December 31 2006.
This matter was reviewed by Senior Deputy City Attorney Donna F. Gwin on April 20 , 2005
and by Budget Management Officer David Wodynski on April 19 , 2005.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
The DHHS has been providing services under this amendment since Jan...
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