High-impact HIV prevention, testing, and linkage services for high-risk MSM and transgender people of color - utilizing its 35-year history providing HIV prevention and care services to…

High-impact HIV prevention, testing, and linkage services for high-risk MSM and transgender people of color - utilizing its 35-year history providing HIV prevention and care services to medically-underserved people of color, and more than 30 years of providing free HIV testing and comprehensive medical case management to people living with HIV, bebashi ? Transition to hope (bebashi) proposes a high-impact HIV prevention, testing, and linkage program to high-risk MSM and transgender people of color - specifically african american. Bebashi is the first black-led organization in the country to address the HIV/aids epidemic in urban communities of color. Bebashi aims to address each of the four pillars of the ending the HIV epidemic plan through conducting HIV testing in community-based and healthcare settings for philadelphia?s most at-risk individuals - MSM and transgender people of color ? Over the five-year contract period. Services will include HIV testing; risk reduction education; distribution of condoms and barriers; prep assessment education and referral; street outreach and recruitment; and online recruitment. The organization proposes hiring a full-time prevention manager, who will oversee the project as well as test when needed, four (4) full-time prevention navigators who will conduct HIV tests, STI screenings and tests, as well as provide navigation services to HIV negative high-risk individuals. All positives found through testing will be referred to bebashi's on-site medical case management team for case management services. A part-time nurse practitioner will be hired for the bebashi wellness clinic to assume all HIV, STI and other treatment duties. Finally, bebashi will utilize the prep squad, a group of young black and brown lgbtq+ youth who act as a street outreach team as educators and recruiters.bebashi plans to collaborate with the colours organization to provide extended testing hours and a drop-in center for young lgbtq+ people of color.through the duration of this five-year contract, bebashi aims to accomplish the following PR imary outcomes over the five-year project period: 1) test a total of 10,700 MSM and transgender individuals using fourth generation HIV tests; 2) identify 60 new HIV positives; 3) relink 70 individuals who have been out of care; 4) increase the number of persons aware of their HIV status by 80% each year for those who have never been tested and/or individuals who have not been tested in one calendar year or longer; 5) ensure that 100% of persons tested for HIV are also screened for stis and hepatitis c; 6) ensure that 100% of new HIV positives are linked to the bebashi wellness clinic or a provider of choice for artas; 7) refer 100% of persons lost to care to the bebashi wellness clinic or a provider of choice for artas; 8) refer 100% of persons lost to care to a bebashi medical case manager; 9) refer 100% of new positive persons to a bebashi medical case manager; 10) ensure 85% treatment adherence for HIV positive individuals; 11) ensure bebashi?s viral suppression rate remains above 85%; and 12) refer 75% HIV negative persons to prep/PEP.