Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach Comprehensive High Impact Prevention (CHIP) The geographic context for this application is the Memphis Transitional Grant Area (Memphis TGA), which is comprised of eight counties: Shelby, Fayette and Tipton in west Tennessee; Crittenden in eastern Arkansas; and DeSoto, Marshall, Tate and Tunica counties in north Mississippi. The Memphis TGA has a population of approximately 1.3 million. The most populous county is Shelby County (pop. 937,750), which includes the City of Memphis, population 654,876. In 2016, African Americans made up 46% of the Memphis TGA population but accounted for 90% of newly diagnosed HIV cases. New HIV diagnoses in the TGA by risk category were highest among those reporting unknown or unidentified risk (42%) followed by Men who have Sex with Men (39%), and heterosexual transmission (18%). Additionally, new HIV diagnoses have grown among adolescents and young adults (15-34 years of age), increasing from 57% to 63% of all new cases between 2012 and 2016 (Shelby County Health Department, 2017). The applicant, Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach (MLCO), is a current CDC CHIP grantee (CDC-PS15-1502). MLCO is requesting funding to continue and enhance its Community HIV Network’s testing, outreach and prevention services for high risk heterosexual African Americans and Hispanics, two minority groups in the Memphis TGA most severely impacted by HIV. The continued and enhanced program will primarily serve African American and Hispanic individuals between ages 13-49 within the heterosexual and “unknown” risk categories. The Community HIV Network (Network) has successfully served these target populations for more than 20 years through high impact community-based testing, ARTAS, PROMISE and referrals to HIV medical and social and essential services providers. Over the five year project period, the Network will implement services and work in collaboration with health departments and other community HIV providers to achieve the following outcomes: • Conduct 6,500 HIV tests with 75% of tests conducted among the target population • Identification of 135 new HIV infections and 40 previously identified persons with HIV • Referrals to STD screening for all HIV-positive persons identified and for 3,750 High Risk Negative (HRN) persons • 90% of new and previously diagnosed persons will be linked to HIV medical care within 30 days • 100% of new and previously diagnosed with HIV persons will be referred for Partner Services • 50,000 free condoms will distributed to HIV-positive and HRN persons; and • 3750 HRN persons will be referred to PrEP and receive navigation support.
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).
