Goal 1: Reduce HIV/STD Infections
Objective 1: Reduce new HIV infections by 50%.
1a. Utilize mobile testing unit(s), co-location of services, and community and local partners within the City of Long Beach to reach clients in areas who have less access to testing and treatment centers. Increase the availability of HIV testing to include evening and weekend hours.
1b. Increase HIV prevention through testing and other support services (e.g., harm reduction or needle exchange programs for people who use and inject drugs).
1c. Focus on testing populations with the highest rates of infection--men who have sex with men, transgender persons, African American and Hispanic/Latino men and women, and men between the ages of 20-39.
1d. Expand access to condoms through educational institutions and community-based partners.
1e. Provide effective behavioral interventions such as client-centered counseling and group level interventions.
Objective 2: Increase proportion of Persons Living with HIV who are diagnosed to at least 90%.
2a. Increase accessibility of HIV testing in communities disproportionately impacted. Cross promote all free, confidential, walk-in HIV and STD screening services to increase access points to testing and treatment.
2b. Improve ability to assess an individual’s sexual risk to support recommendations for HIV testing, STD screening and provide risk reduction education to prevent and transmit such diseases.
2c. Utilize mobile testing unit(s), co-location of services, and community and local partners to reach clients in areas who have less access to testing and treatment centers. Increase the availability of HIV testing to include evening and weekend hours.
Objective 3: Reduce new infections for gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis by 20%.
3a. Utilize mobile testing unit(s), co-location of services, and community and local partners to reach clients in areas who have less access to testing and treatment centers.
3b. Encourage providers to routinely test all individuals who report being sexually active on an annual basis (i.e. annual physical) for STDs and HIV.
3c. Encourage extra genital site testing (urethra, rectal and pharyngeal) for chlamydia and gonorrhea every 3 months for individual who are engaging in those sexual behaviors. Encourage PrEP uptake for individuals with reactive STD screens.
3d. Utilize Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) to locate individuals who have fallen out of HIV care, need STD treatment or tested positive for HIV and/or chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis and did not return for treatment and care.
3e. Expand access to condoms within the City of Long Beach through educational institutions and community-based partners.
3f. Provide effective behavioral interventions such as client-centered counseling and group level interventions.