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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all necessary documents, between the City of Long Beach and the State Department of Health Services for funding the provision of HIV/AIDS preventive health services for an amount not to exceed $4,219,218 for a period of three years, to be appropriated on an annual basis in the Health Fund (SR 130) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HE). (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 and HIV Prevention, which entails HIV and Hepatitis C counseling, testing and HIV Care. The City has received additional, one time funding, in the amount of $64,635 for this fiscal year. These funds have been designated for HIV and Hepatitis C testing with and without counseling by the State. The annual breakdown is designated as follows:
The HIV Care Program (HCP) formally known, in part, 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 HIV infected persons of color and must be pla...
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