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HJAHC ACCESS Receives Additional Funding

Ryan White Title II Care and Treatment Services
Project ACCESS

The Division of HIV/AIDS Services is providing an additional $37,000 of funding for diagnostic testing ($32,000) and dental care ($5,000) for a new total of $375,406 to be expended by the end of this fiscal year by March 31, 2008. Renewal funding for the period April 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009 have been increased to $479,224.

Over the past five (5) years that Project ACCESS has offered services to the Trenton community, over 220 unduplicated patients have been served. Medical treatment, specialty services, case management, substance abuse treatment, mental health, dental care and transportation services provide a full continuum of care.

HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect minorities in New Jersey and the City of Trenton. According to data published by the Department of Health, June 30, 2006, minorities account for seventy-five percent of New Jersey’s adult/adolescent cumulative HIV/AIDS cases and seventy-eight percent of all persons living with HIV/AIDS. While the proportion of persons contracting HIV/AIDS who were exposed through injection drug use is lower than in previous years, the proportion of cases exposed through sexual contact is increasing. It is estimated that over 2,000 persons in Mercer County are infected with HIV and approximately 35% of those are female.

For more information regarding Project ACCESS, please telephone, (609) 278-5871...

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• Project ACCESS