Research
RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Part A
Part A of the Ryan White CARE Act provides emergency funding to metropolitan areas that are most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. To be eligible for Part A funding an area must have reported at least 2,000 AIDS cases during the previous 5 years and have a population of at least 5,000. The city of Detroit is currently one of fifty-one eligible metropolitan areas receiving Part A funding. Horizons Project Part A funds received from the City of Detroit Health Department are used to provide no cost clinical activities such as primary care, treatment adherence and psychosocial support for uninsured adolescents.
For more information, visit Federal Part A funding and for contact information on the City of Detroit Part A funding visit http://hab.hrsa.gov/programs/t1roster.htm.
Michigan Department of Community Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section, Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Part D
Part D of the Ryan CARE Act specifically provides funding for family-centered primary and specialty medical care, support services, and logistical support and coordination for HIV+ women, infants, children, youth, and their families.
Horizons Project provides support services through three JAM sessions per month, consisting of one men’s group, one women’s group and one mixed gender group. The clinical care team leads clients in coming together in these interactive social support groups to discuss various aspects of their lives as well as community activities. Transportation and child care are provided. For information on the JAM sessions email Linda Hyter at lhyter@dmc.org or call her at 313-924-9493.
Part D funding also supported a pilot test of a motivational intervention targeting HIV+ youth for sexually transmitted infections. For more information, visit Maternal and Child HIV/AIDS Programs in Michigan.
Michigan Department of Community Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section (HAPIS), Partnerships for Health Grant
It is the yearly objective of the Horizon Project outreach team to provide counseling, testing, and referral services to 80 African American MSM between the ages of 13 and 24. There is also a health education and risk reduction portion of this grant, through which the outreach team seeks to provide 4 cycles of the 3-session Brothers Saving Brothers skills building workshop to 30 unduplicated African American young men who have sex with men. For more information on Horizons Project local HAPIS objectives please email Dwain Bridges at dlbridge@med.wayne.edu or call him at 313-924-9516.
City of
Horizons Project 2009-2010 NOF grant money is being used to provide outreach efforts, HIV testing, medical care for uninsured HIV+ clients, educational resources for clients, and other aspects that allow this program to provide effective services. This money is also used to provide transportation services for clients, which is an essential element in the effective medical care of our clients. The behavioral and service change anticipated for the Horizons Project NOF is an increase in the number of HIV infected youth receiving medical care and attending medical appointments, maintained or decreased viral loads/maintained or increased CD4 counts, decrease in risk behaviors, and an increase in the number of youth receiving yearly preventative vaccinations. For more information on Horizons Project NOF contact
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PREVIOUS RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Special Projects of National Significance: Motivational-Based Outreach for Young Men who have Sex with Men (YMSMs) of Color
Through this grant Horizons Project conduct innovative field and internet outreach to encourage YMSM of color. The primary objective was to encourage YMSM to find out their HIV status and enroll, engage, and maintain in care. A motivational interviewing (MI) strategy was used and evaluated, with extensive MI training to field workers, to encourage at-risk YMSM of color to be counseled and tested for HIV. Traditional peer-outreach was compared with traditional peer outreach in combination with MI. YMSM of color who test positive for HIV were referred to medical care and case management services and those who tesedt negative are referred to Horizons Project Brothers Saving Brothers (BSB) group. This group was a three-session behavioral intervention aimed at reducing HIV infection among young African American men who have sex with men and young bisexual men.For mor information about this study, please contact Dr. Angulique Outlaw at aoutlaw@med.wayne.edu or call her at (313) 745-3218.
Michigan Department of Community Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Intervention Section, Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency (CARE) Act Part D
Michigan Department of Community Health provided funding for the MISTI Project, which was a motivational intervention targeting HIV+ youth for sexually transmitted infections. The purpose of this intervention program was to see if a brief computer program could help HIV+ youth reduce their exposure to and acquisition of (getting) sexually transmitted infections. Clients asked to participate in this study had a sexually transmitted infection in the 12 months prior to enrollment. For more information on this project email Dr. Nikki Cockern at scockern@med.wayne.edu or call her at 313-924-8229.