The Howard University HBCU-HIV/HCV Prevention Program (H3P)

Resources: Information for Providers in Georgia

Welcome to the portal page of resources for healthcare professionals, health care organizations and health care networks who provide treatment, care and support to individuals diagnosed with HIV in Georgia.
       
Resources from the Community

• AID Atlanta - is the largest non-profit HIV healthcare organization in the Southeast and transforms lives with a continuum of care that provides access, linkage, and retention to HIV care. The Agency serves over 5,000 patients yearly.
• The AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta (ARCA) - founded in 1988, is one of the first and most successful non-profit community-based HIV/AIDS research center for treatment and prevention research, education, and free HIV/STD testing services. They have formed a collaboration with over 50 physicians and 5 public health clinics to conduct clinical drug trials.  Further, ARCA also has emerged as a center for HIV prevention research. ARCA offers free anonymous HIV rapid testing & free confidential STD testing.
• The Georgia AIDS Coalition.  This is a not-for-profit corporation created in 1989.  Its purpose is to act as an education resource for the formation and articulation of public policy regarding HIV infection, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted infections.

Resources from the Professional Literature

• 2012-2015 State of Georgia Statewide Comprehensive HIV Services Plan. Georgia Department of Public Health Division of Health Protection HIV Office Ryan White Part B.  The Comprehensive HIV/AIDS services’ planning outlines activities undertaken by the Georgia Department of Public Health Ryan White Part B state and local programs, the Metropolitan Atlanta Part A Planning Council, and Ryan White Part C, D and F programs across the state assist the decision-making process in the development and maintenance of a system of care and support for persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in Georgia.
• Georgia HIV Surveillance Data. Georgia Department of Public Health. Data, fact sheets and summaries. Data from 2007 to most current year reported.
• Georgia – 2015 State Health Profile. 
• AIDSVU (2013). Highlights of HIV data for Georgia. It provides the prevalence and new diagnosis data at state and local levels, and by different demographics, including age, race and sex. 
• HIV/AIDS Portal. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Includes access to rates per state via the NCHHSTP Atlas.

Resources from the Press

• Metro Atlanta at the Center of a Burgeoning HIV Crisis. Georgia Health News (2015). Centers for Disease Control reports that Georgia ranks second among U.S. states in the rate of new HIV diagnoses, and metro Atlanta has the fifth-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses.  Three of the metro Atlanta counties, namely DeKalb, Fulton and Clayton- top counties nationally in rates of new HIV diagnoses.
• Atlanta’s alarming HIV/AIDS epidemic reminiscent of New York in the ’80s. (2015)  Al Jazeera America.  In the face of Atlanta’s alarming HIV/AIDS epidemic new innovative strategies seek to tackle Atlanta’s high infection rates. 
• Chatham CARE Center Fights to Improve HIV Education, Treatment as County’s Virus Numbers Climb. (2015). Savannah Now News. Despite the wealth of information available about HIV and AIDS prevention, Chatham County continues to see a growing population of diagnosed residents.
• The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States: The Basics. (2017). Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. People are living longer with the disease, however, HIV continues to have a disproportionate impact on certain populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities