Tuesday, June 10, 2025
6/10/2025
Ryan White Part C Outpatient EIS Program - • Project Title: Part C HIV Early Intervention Services Program • Applicant Organization Name: AIDS Healthcare Foundation • Address: 4300 Bayou Blvd., Suite 17D Pensacola, FL 32509 • Project Director Name: Dawn Averill, Project Director • Contact Phone Numbers: voice: (850) 470-8071, ext. 53002 / fax: (888) 972-2281 • E-Mail Address: dawn.averill@aidshealth.org • Web Site Address: www.aidshealth.org • Grant program funds requested: $350,000 per year • Funding preferences requested: Increased burden and underserved area The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is proposing a project is to provide comprehensive primary health care and support services in an outpatient setting for low income, uninsured, and underinsured PLWH. AHF will provide CTR services, linkage to primary health care and support services, referral to care and supportive services, retention in care, monitoring viral suppression/ART, outpatient/ambulatory health services, medical case management, treatment adherence services, risk reduction counseling, and a range of support services. The project will serve the Escambia County, FL. Needs to be addressed: AHF’s project will address gaps in the local HIV care continuum on diagnosis of HIV infection, linkage to care, retention in care, Receipt of ART, and the achievement of viral suppression. The service area experiences higher rates of HIV/AIDS than statewide rates in Florida. In Escambia County, the HIV incidence rate (per 100,000) was 18.3 (60 cases) in 2022; the rate was 12.6 in 2021 and 11.4 in 2020. The incidence rate of AIDS diagnoses (per 100,000) was 4.6 (15 cases); the rate was 6.4 in 2021 and 9.2 in 2020. In 2022, there were 1,404 PLWH in Escambia County, for a rate of 428.6/100,000 (0.43%). Fully 729 of the 1,404 (52%) PLWH in Escambia County were Black, more than double the proportion of the general population. In the service area, MSM have been most impacted by HIV, accounting for 70% of new cases and 55% of PLWH, while heterosexual transmission accounted for 17% of new cases and 35% of PLWH. Proposed services: Key services will include: linkage to primary health care and support services, referral to care and supportive services, retention in care, monitoring viral suppression/ART, outpatient/ambulatory health services, medical case management, treatment adherence services, risk reduction counseling, and a range of support services. Population groups to be served: AHF’s target populations—PLWH in the designated service area of Escambia County—are underserved and experience disproportionately poorer health outcomes; the specific subpopulations that have the greatest needs for receiving RWHAP Part C funded services include minority populations (Black and Hispanic), men who have sex with men (MSM), Transgender individuals, drug users, recently incarcerated persons, and women of color; AHF will also target PLWH currently not in care.
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