Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
African Services Committee (ASC) will address the national HIV epidemic by reducing new infections, increasing access to care, and promoting health equity. Through this funding, ASC will enhance its capacity to increase HIV testing and referrals to Partner Services, link persons with HIV to HIV medical care and ART, provide/refer prevention/essential services for persons with HIV and persons at risk for acquiring HIV, and increase program monitoring and accountability. ASC will provide a range of strategies and activities to achieve the project period outcomes. ASC has adapted programming and protocols to ensure safety of clients and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will incorporate those protocols into the proposed program as appropriate. ASC’s Comprehensive HIV Prevention Core Program will consist of the following activities: Diagnose: Targeted HIV Testing for 400 clients annually, Provide Integrated Screenings for 200 clients annually, Conduct 10 Large Scale Testing Even(s); Treat: Linkage to HIV Medical Care for at least 90% of newly diagnosed HIV persons and those not in care, Re-engagement, Partner Services Referral for 100% of newly diagnosed persons, Medication Adherence programming; Prevent: Referrals to PrEP and nPEP for 95% of clients, Provision of individual Health Education/Risk Reduction, Condom Distribution, reaching 95 persons from the target population annually; Respond: Support for Health Department Cluster Detection and Response Activities. ASC’s Operational Program will consist of Program Promotion, Outreach, and Recruitment; Community Advisory Board (CAB); and HIV Planning Group (HPG). The specific service area in which ASC plans to deliver its program is New York City (NYC), with a focus on areas with large immigrant populations, including Upper Manhattan, South Bronx, Central Brooklyn, and Staten Island. The service area is disproportionately affected by HIV and is where people with and at greatest risk for HIV reside and frequent. ASC’s target population for service delivery is high-risk heterosexual men and women, ages 13 to 64, with a focus on Black and Latino immigrants (primarily African and Caribbean), including women involved in sex work, women and young women with a history of trauma, sexual, emotional, or physical abuse, and women and young women in sexual relationships with partners whose status is unknown or are in sero-discordant relationships. The agency is targeting this population and service area because rates of HIV/AIDS are among the highest in the city. ASC will collaborate with other organizations that have an established history of working with and recruiting members of the target population at greatest risk for HIV acquisition or transmission. ASC has developed relationships and connections with a range of organizations, institutions, agencies and businesses that ASC will be able to leverage for the proposed work. ASC will enhance existing and establish new formalized collaborative partnerships, supported by detail specific service agreements, with medical providers and essential support service providers to maximize reach, increase coordination and collaboration, and support the provision of comprehensive HIV prevention services. ASC is not subcontracting with any other agencies for the program. ASC expects to achieve the following short-term outcomes. Diagnose: Increased persons who are aware of their HIV status; Increased receipt of integrated screenings. Treat: Increased receipt of HIV medical care and ART among persons with newly diagnosed HIV; Increased receipt of HIV medical care and ART among persons with previously diagnosed HIV, not-in-care; Increased access to Partner Services. Prevent: Increased access to PrEP; Increased availability of condoms.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
