Wednesday, May 8, 2024
5/8/2024
Sunset Park Health Council, Inc. (dba Family Health Centers at NYU Langone abbreviated FHC) serves more than 900,000 residents in its network of eight health centers and dental clinics. As a continuation of the strong progress under CDC PS10-1003 and PS15-1502, FHC will implement CDC PS21-2102 “Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention Program for Community-Based Organizations” targeting MSM who are of Hispanic/Latino origin and/or who are Black, Multi-racial, or of Unknown race) who identify as Male or Transgender (male to female) ages 13-49 years. Together, FHC and its three community-based partners (Turning Point, Brooklyn in Sunset Park; Brooklyn Community Pride Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant; and Jennifer Orellana, an outreach consultant focusing on Hispanic/Latino MSM and transgender individuals) will fulfill a primary purpose to enhance their individual and collective 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; and increase program monitoring and accountability. Ultimately, this program will reduce HIV transmission, increase access to care, and improve health outcomes (reducing morbidity, mortality, and health related disparities) in alignment with NYS’s Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan (2017-2021). Implementation of the Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention Program in the Brooklyn service area (inclusive of 12 zip codes across Sunset Park, Downtown Red Hook–Park Slope, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Borough Park and Bay Ridge) is fully aligned with the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative and CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategic Plan to: reduce the number of people diagnosed with HIV; increase access to care and optimize health outcomes for people with HIV; and reduce HIV-related health disparities. In the short-term, FHC proposes to support robust: 1) Diagnosis, 2) Treatment, 3) Prevention, 4) Re sponse, and 5) Program Promotion, Recruitment, and Outreach. The long-term outcomes will include: reducing HIV incidence, improved health outcomes for persons in the target population with diagnosed HIV; reduced HIV-related health disparities; and reduced death among the target population. FHC is committed to quality improvement and is constantly striving to provide the highest level of HIV prevention and preventive primary care by assessing all aspects of service provision, developing quality improvement protocols, measuring outcomes, and implementing quality improvement strategies based on these outcomes.
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