Apla Health & Wellness

The vance north necessities of life program, (nolp) provides free food and hygiene items and nutrition education to low-income men, women and families living with hiv/aids throughout the county of los angeles. During the past year, nolp provided 2,133 clients a total of 206,222 bags of groceries.

The home health program provides intensive nurse and social work case management to hiv positive clients in los angeles county who are in danger of falling into institutionalized care or out of care entirely. The program also provides additional in-home services such as attendant care and psychotherapy in order to promote independent living, quality of life, and maximize health outcomes. The program helps clients stay in their own homes thereby reducing he need for costly skilled nursing or extended care placements, and reduces the barriers to effective hiv treatment thereby helping limit hiv-disease progression. Apla health & wellness provides a number of other smaller programs to clients, including free confidential hiv counseling and testing; std screening and treatment; actively outreaching to the community at-risk for contracting hiv and aids with a variety of prevention-focused interventions; linkage and retention in care support services; benefits counseling; services to those aging with hiv; prep/pep navigation; and research projects.