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Project Name: Ryan White Part C Outpatient EIS Program (H76)
Applicant Title: WHATLEY HEALTH SERVICES INC
Abstract Text: Project Title: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C HIV Early Intervention Services Program: Existing Geographic Service Areas Applicant Organization Name: Whatley Health Services, Inc. Address: 2731 ML King Jr. Blvd., Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401-5235 Project Director Name: Marquetta Campbell, Program Manager of Infectious Disease Services Contact Phone Numbers: xxx-xxx-xxxx (Voice); xxx-xxx-xxxx (Fax) E-Mail Address: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Web Site Address: www.whatleyhealth.org Grant Program Funds Requested: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C Early Intervention Services Program: Existing Geographic Service Areas Whatley Health Services, Inc. (Whatley) of Tuscaloosa, Alabama requests continuing Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C Early Intervention Services Program funding for its ten county Service Area, which includes Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker counties. This Service Area is home to 405,514 people, including an estimated 1,013 people living with HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS care will be provided at Whatley’s HOPE clinics, which are located at the Maude L. Whatley Health Center in Tuscaloosa, Sumter County Health Center in York, Whatley Health Services Inc. at Sipsey, Whatley Health Services at Aliceville, and Whatley Health Services at Carrollton. According to data provided by the Alabama Department of Public Health, the prevalence of PLWH in the Service Area has been steadily increasing from 888 cases in 2021, to 940 in 2022, to 1,013 in 2023. In the past three calendar years, the number of people living with HIV (PLWH) was most prevalent in the African-American population with 62.8% of the total cases in 2021, 61.9% in 2022, and 61.7% in 2023. In addition, according to 2023 data from the Alabama Department of Public Health, most people living with HIV are male (76.6%), under the age of 45 (84.1%), and men who have sex with men (38.3%). Whatley’s 2023 HOPE Clinic data further reveals that most people in the Service Area living with HIV are African-Americans (80.0%), more males (72.6%) than females (25.8%) are affected, and those individuals in the 25-44 age group are impacted at a higher rate than other age groups (49.5%). Key HIV services to be supported by this request include HIV counseling, testing, and referral services; primary medical care; laboratory; case management; mental health assessment and counseling; substance abuse assessment and counseling; pharmaceuticals; peer education; and nutritional services. In addition, clients will have access to a well-established network of referral care in Whatley’s ten county Service Area of western Alabama. Federal funding requested is $400,035. Although all individuals needing Early Intervention Services will receive care, men who have sex with men will be targeted as a subpopulation since this exposure category continues to have the highest number of cases/percentages as compared to the other adult/adolescent exposure categories at 347 (39.1%) in CY 2021, 359 (38.2%) in CY 2022, and 388 (38.3%) in CY 2023.