Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The Los Angeles LGBT Center (the Center) - the nation’s largest LGBT health and service organization and a distinguished HIV specialist medical care provider and prevention agency - requests funding through the CDC’s FY 2021 Comprehensive High-Impact HIV Prevention Programs for Community-Based Organizations (PS21-2102) to implement the Continuum Project, a comprehensive, integrated HIV prevention initiative designed to significantly reduce the number and incidence of new HIV infections in Los Angeles (LA) County, California. Continuum will build on the work of the Center’s highly successful existing CDC-funded PS15-1502 grant program to prevent new HIV infections among African American and Latinx men who have sex with men (MSM) of color, who will make up at least 75% of our project population, with a secondary focus on high-risk African American and Latinx heterosexual women, who will make up an estimated 15% of our project population. The Continuum Project will conduct an integrated matrix of high-impact HIV prevention activities centering around Center South - the Center’s new FQHC clinic and service facility located in the hard-hit South Los Angeles area. Continuum will apply state-of-the-art findings and emerging strategies to connect with and engage the highest-risk MSM of color in LA County both to prevent new HIV infections and connect HIV-positive MSM to culturally competent, high quality HIV medical and biomedical prevention services. The project will also work to make our new South Los Angeles office a hub for HIV / STD testing, drop-in services, PrEP and PEP education and treatment, and HIV prevention access, all in a safe, welcoming, and trauma-informed setting that reduces HIV stigma while allowing clients to discuss and address barriers to HIV prevention and care. Key 5-year outcomes of the program include: a) conducting 3,500 grant-funded rapid HIV tests; b) identifying at least 60 newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons; c) conducti ng at least 2,750 comprehensive integrated HIV / STD screenings, representing 78.6% of all HIV tests conducted through the CDC program; d) linking at least 90% of persons with newly diagnosed HIV to HIV medical care within 30 days of initial diagnosis; e) linking at least 85% of persons with newly diagnosed HIV to a preliminary HIV clinic intake appointment within 72 hours of initial diagnosis; f) offering same day, short-term HIV medications using the Rapid Start model to 100% of persons linked to a preliminary HIV clinic intake who are eligible for Rapid Start services; g) identifying and linking to HIV medical care at least 25 previously diagnosed, out-of-care persons with HIV; h) referring 100% of newly and previously persons with HIV to Partner Services; i) referring 100% of HIV-negative persons identified through the CDC program to PrEP services; j) ensuring that at least 500 HIV-negative persons identified through the CDC program are linked to an initial PrEP intake appointment at the Center; and k) distributing at least 12,500 safe sex kits, incorporating 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).
