Imperial Beach Community Clinic

Fy 2021 Ending the Hiv Epidemic - Primary Care Hiv Prevention - Imperial Beach Community Clinic (IBCC) Proposes to Establish a Comprehensive Hiv Prevention and Treatment Program at Both Its Clinics Sites in San Diego County (a Targeted Geographic Location). Broadly, the Clinic’s Goals Are to Establish Hiv Prevention and Treatment Services to Decrease the Risk of Hiv in Underserved Communities. Ibcc Will: (1) Develop a Health Promotions Outreach Team Whose Primary Goal Will Be to Increase the Number of Patients Counseled and Tested for Hiv at High Schools, Colleges, Universities and in the Community; (2) Increase the Number of Patients Prescribed Prep and Increase Patients’ Continued Used of Prep by Implementing a Primary Care and Pharmacist Prep Prescribing Program That Coordinates Labs, Testing, Prep Refills, and Referrals to an Ibcc Infectious Disease Specialist; (3) Establish an Interdisciplinary Clinical and Health Promotions Outreach Team to Provide Hiv Education, Awareness and Prep to Those Patients Requesting Prophylaxis; and (4) Implement an Infectious Disease Specialty Program That Will Increase the Number of Patients Receiving Timely (within 30 Days of Diagnosis) Hiv Treatment. Program Components Will Be Fully Integrated Into Primary Care and Behavioral Health Services to Support Whole Person Care and Will Include Comprehensive, Culturally Competent Patient Education and Support Services.