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HIV/AIDS Programs
How is CMHS involved in HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts?
CMHS develops program models that provide mental health services to individuals, families, and others living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. People with the disease may have psychiatric complications such as AIDS-related dementia or other mental disorders. As many as 1.5 million people in the United States are living with HIV, the virus causing AIDS.
What specific programs does CMHS support?
- The Mental Health HIV Services Collaborative (MHHSC) Program was funded in FY 2001 to address unmet mental health treatment needs of individuals living with HIV/AIDS who are African American, Hispanic/Latino and/or
from other communities of color. Twenty-one community-based organizations received five-year grants to expand their current service capacity to reach and provide coordinated mental health and other health and support services to members of these groups experiencing HIV/AIDS, and to evaluate the effectiveness of these services.
- The Mental Health Care Provider Education in HIV/AIDS Program III is built on the goals and successes of the original MHCPE program, which had been administered by the CMHS since 1992. Approximately 200,000 mental health care providers have received training supported by this program.
Past Programs
- The
Treatment Adherence, Health Outcomes, and Cost Study, a joint effort
of 6 federal agencies, considers treatment adherence, health outcomes,
and costs associated with delivering integrated mental health, substance
abuse, and primary care services to people living with HIV/AIDS. The study
will focus on people with HIV/AIDS who also have a mental disorder and
a substance abuse disorder. CMHS is working jointly with the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HIV/AIDS Bureau) the National Institutes of
Health (National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug
Abuse, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism), and
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center
for Substance Abuse and Treatment.
- Project SHIELD, is a Prevention/Intervention Program that has developed and is testing ways to encourage and enable adolescents/young adults and women who are at risk for HIV/AIDS to change the high-risk behaviors associated with HIV transmission.
- The HIV/AIDS Mental Health Care Provider Education in HIV/AIDS Program II Program provides traditional and non-traditional mental health care providers with current information about the mental health aspects of living with HIV/AIDS and about ethical issues in providing services to people with AIDS. The program will assess the effectiveness of various training models.
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