Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
RYAN WHITE TITLE III: EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES - Project Abstract: In 2022, 1,624 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in New York City, marking a 1.3% decrease from 2021.1 As of 2022, an estimated 132,003 people live with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the five boroughs.1 The relatively stable number of new HIV diagnoses from 2021 to 2022, compared with the marked one-year declines seen in previous recent years (for example, a 7.5% decrease in new HIV diagnoses from 2018 to 2019).1 However, racial and ethnic health disparities persist among Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino communities, who make up 43% and 40% respectively of newly diagnosed people in NYC. Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinos combined make up 76% of those living with the virus, as compared to 20% of white non-Hispanic/Latino individuals.1 Black/African American and Latino New Yorkers are also disproportionately affected by homelessness. Approximately 49% of single adults in New York City homeless shelters are Black/African American, 38% are Latino, 8% are white non-Hispanic/Latino, less than 1% are Asian-American, and 5% are of unknown race/ethnicity. In recent years, homelessness in New York City has reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s. By the end of 2023, the city’s shelter system housed over 25,000 single adults, which has continued to rise in 2024.2 Project Renewal requests $96,503 in Ryan White HIC/AIDS Program Part C EIS Program funding to continue providing HIV care to New Yorkers with the highest need. The population served by our primary care program is experiencing homelessness with complications of mental health and substance use disorder. Our five shelter-based clinics and two licensed mobile medical units allow us to reach people experiencing homelessness and identify people living with HIV across the city, and our HIV Support Services (SS) program is fully integrated into our primary care program to ensure comprehensive and coordinated health care services. Project Renewal’s Early Intervention Services (EIS) Project Renewal services are uniquely supportive, offering a trauma-informed approach in parallel with specialized clinical case management and key resources to address housing and employment. PRI provides trauma-informed integrated Behavioral Health services, both Substance Use Treatment and Psychiatry, as well as care management to address social determinates of health that are barriers to viral suppression. We are one of a small group of agencies in NYC that offering HIV EIS to the population of people experiencing homelessness. Our service design supports clients along the continuum of care toward the national goal of reducing viral loads and ending the HIV epidemic.
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