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Prevention Coop Meeting
June 28, 2005
Attendants:
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Avery
Garner |
HIV
Prevention Contract Manager, Area 4 |
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Chrissy
Edmonds |
Health
Planning |
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Bonnie
Hardy |
HIV Sero-Incidence |
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Bettye
Tillman |
HIV
Prevention/Mental Health |
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Frieda
Saraga |
Planned
Parenthood/Positive Attitudes Support |
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Eula
Johnson, |
MAC/TOPWA |
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Tavia S.
Leonard |
UF Medical
Center |
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Linda
Johnson |
Center of
Jax |
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Serenia
Beckton |
AIDS
Program Office |
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Mica
“Mecca” Bowles |
JASMYN |
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Lawrence
Thompson |
MAC/Azalea |
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Lolita
Hill |
River
Region/MAC |
Welcome/Introductions: Were
conducted by Avery Garner recognizing good agency coverage for this
meeting.
STD
Presentation: Cancelled for
this particular meeting but, the HIV/STD Update will be at SHANDS
Jacksonville on August 3rd and 4th. See Avery
for Registration forms. This will be an opportunity to get good
comprehensive information.
AIDS Update
Meeting: Will be July 1,
2005, River Region HS, Inc., Park Street Office at 8:30am. Prevention
or Patient Care program participants are encouraged to come and share
information. Other programs will be there to share what their programs
have to offer involving housing dollars etc.
Red Ribbon
Relay Committee: The AIDS
walk is still on the calendar for October 1, which is the first Saturday
in October. Participants are encouraged be involved in the planning of
the walk by attending the meeting at 9:30am right after the AIDS Update
meeting in the same location.
World AIDS Week
Committee: Still going
strong, meets on the second Tuesday of every month at noon on Franklin
street at the Mt. Olive AME church.
Prevention Coop
Meeting: July 26th
, BCCC conference room, 2:00pm.
Condom
Distribution: July 1, 2005,
900 Bldg. 5th fl, room 506, 11:00am – 1:00pm. Pick up your
quarterly allotment. Please ensure no one from your agency has already
picked up the allotment for your organization. Available condoms are
Durex, Lifestyles and flavored.
Positive
Attitudes Support Group was
plugged on the radio by Avery.
Program
Announcements for July:
Women’s Center
for FACES Project: July 6th
commences phase-2 of the project focusing on Mother and children, being
a child of an HIV positive mother should continue through the 2nd
week in August. FACES is eleven positive women who send out their voice
to encourage the community who are HIV positive.
Avery will check
to see if FACES could have a display at the HIV/STD Update.
Health Fairs:
River Region/MAC will be having a Health Fair the first Saturday in July
off 33rd and Moncrief, possibly 4:00pm until 8:00pm.
Prevention for
Positives: Will possibly be
willing to work with you to find funding to assist with events of
interests.
JASMYN:
House tours will be conducted for person’s not familiar with the
facility from noon to 1:00pm on June 30th . The address is
923 Peninsular Place, directly behind River Regions administrative
offices on Park Street.
The JASMYN on site
clinic through SHANDS is in operation. The first clinic went well and
is opened twice monthly.
Clear Waiver:
The Clear Waiver information is being processed and will be used at the
River Region State Street drop in Center.
Linkage:
Planned Parenthood and River Region Human Services have contracts to
test and link clients to services. Notify Avery when linkage is needed
through TIII network providers. The Title III Network consists of Early
Intervention Services for new and existing positives. New positives are
linked to the network for linkage to services. Case managers will handle
follow-ups and follow through with the people at the network.
National HIV
Testing Day was a Great Success.
Think HIV
Campaign Website:
thinkhiv.com will
link to State, CDC and the National Minority AIDS Council. The website
will provide information in its entirety. A future website format was
discussed to include HIV Prevention and Patient Care. The Think HIV
Campaign will continue through the month of July working with local
clinics encouraging them to offer HIV testing to their clients on a
regular basis and display simple awareness messages in their waiting
areas.. Posters will be delivered to partnering clinics to track for
testing outcomes.
Directory/telephone # (904)
665-2545.
New Consent
Forms: Will be effective June
30th. There will be new 1628’s as well. Website to download
forms:<<
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/aids/testing/testing.html
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Incidence data:
Will continue to be collected for distribution as requested.
National
Intervention Conference:
Avery attended and found that Area 4 has quite a comprehensive program
in comparison to the whole country. The state of Florida often uses our
program as a model in comparison with other cities.
FCCAP Meetings:
- Meet the first Tuesday
every other month, 5:30 until 7:30pm, Smith Auditorium. The next
meeting will be in August..
National STD Prevention Conference: The
conference will be May 8th through May 11th,
2006. The website for more information is
http://www.cdc.gov/stdconference/
. Please visit for registration,
abstracts, vendors, faces project, ect.
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