1a. Improve reporting of newly diagnosed HIV cases to the Health Department.
1b. Strengthen coordination across medical providers and non-profit organizations who provide testing to ensure linkage to HIV care and treatment within 30 days of new HIV diagnosis.
1c. Utilize and increase the number of Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) to identify and link individuals into care and treatment.
1d. Provide every person newly diagnosed HIV information about HIV Support Groups in Long Beach.
2a. Create and provide effective interventions for medical providers who engage with individuals who are non-adherent to HIV medication to support in re-engaging individual back into care.
2b. Deliver consistent and routine messaging that an undetectable viral load means that HIV is untransmittable (U=U) to all patients living with HIV utilizing medical providers and support systems.
2c. Utilize DIS to locate individuals who have fallen out of HIV care and re-engage them to care.
2d. Empower people living with HIV/AIDS to help themselves and others around issues related to prevention and care.
Strategy 3a. Assist in acquiring syphilis medication for providers.
Strategy 3b. Promote patient delivered partner therapy (PDPT) among providers and help connect providers with Essential Access Health to deliver FREE PDPT for chlamydia and gonorrhea.