CIHPP Helps to Protect and Prevent
posted by Malik Williams | September 13, 2017 | In Arts and CultureOn September 9, 2017 keynote speaker Dr. Danny Ellis spoke about the Comprehensive Integrated HIV Prevention Problem (CIHPP). He spoke about what they hope to achieve and what they stand for. The Comprehensive Integrated HIV Prevention Problem (CIHPP) is an HIV prevention program that was designed to educate the population on the prevention of substance abuse (SA), HIV and HCV infections among at risk populations, including African-Americans, Hispanics/Latino, Asian Americans/ Pacific Islanders and young adults ages 18 to 24 years old.
With this event, their goal is to take preventative measures to decrease the transmission of HIV through education, prompt diagnosis, and adequate counseling and treatment, ensuring access to high quality, culturally appropriate services.
The minority serving institutions and community-based organizations HIV prevention program and Fayetteville State University is being sponsored by a $900,000 grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The program is aimed to ultimately reduce substance abuse and HIV infection in Cumberland County.
When interviewed on why he started the program Dr. Maurice Mongkuo stated: “The stats of most African Americans infected with AIDS/ HIV was very high,” and that those numbers alarmed him. He also goes on to state that he has children around the age range that most young adults were getting infected. When asked how long CIHPP has been around and what some future plans for the program were he replied “ The CIHPP program got its grant back in 2015,” so it’s been around for 2 years and he plans to get a proposal from the Center for Disease Control for more money from different foundations.
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