The Area 7 HIV & AIDS Program at the Florida Department of Health in Orange County provides technical assistance to support the HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention Education services offered at the Florida Department of Health facilities and Community Based Organizations located in Brevard, Orange, Osceola, and Seminole Counties.
The program primarily focuses on the following services:
- Patient Care
- Prevention
- Surveillance
HIV Patient Care Referral
The Patient Care Program is supported with Federal funding allocated to the State through the Ryan White Treatment Modernization Act of 2009. The funds are distributed to eligible agencies through a competitive bid process conducted by the Lead Agency for Area 7, the Heart of Florida United Way. These funds are used to support services to eligible individuals living with HIV disease.
Services include, but are not limited to:
- Outpatient Ambulatory Medical Care
- Oral Health
- Pharmacy
- Medical Case Management
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Health Insurance Premium and Cost Sharing
- Medical Transportation
- Medical Nutrition Therapy
- Non-medical Case Management
- Food Bank and Home Delivered Meals
Prevention Referrals
The Prevention Program helps prevent HIV and AIDS by providing High Impact Prevention (HIP) Strategies that includes extending the following testing initiatives:
- Healthcare Center for the Homeless (clinical site)
- Hope and Help Center of Central Florida (community site)
- Miracle of Love, Inc. (community site)
- Healthy Relationships
- Mpowerment
- BRTA – Business Responds to AIDS
- Linkage to Care
- Interventions
Ending the HIV Epidemic
Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America (EHE) is a bold plan that aims to end the HIV Epidemic in the United States by 2030. The goal of the plan is to reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States by 75% within five years and then by 90% within 10 years for an estimated 250,000 total HIV infection averted.
Strategies to achieve the EHE Goal:
- Diagnose all people with HIV as early as possible.
- Treat people with HIV rapidly and effectively to reach sustained viral suppression.
- Prevent new HIV transmissions by using proven interventions, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and syringe services programs (SSPs).
- Respond quickly to potential HIV outbreaks to get needed prevention and treatment services to people who need them.
Florida has 7 Ending the Epidemic areas, including Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange, Palm Beach, and Pinellas Counties.
For more information, visit Talk Test Treat Central Florida to get resources on testing locations, requesting free home test kits, and treatment services for HIV and PrEP. Together let’s get talking, get tested, and get treated. Whether living well with HIV or working to prevent it, everyone can thrive .