Hawaii Island Hiv Aids Foundation

The prevention, outreach and engagement poe departments testing program distributed 316 narcan kits, which led to 43 reported overdose reversals. We exchanged 28,591 syringes in 881 visits in our west hawaii office. Overall, we conducted 1,107 sexual health tests to 935 people. We diagnosed and treated 57 cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis. We diagnosed and linked 5 individuals to hiv care. We also had 2 positive hepatitis c cases within this year. Approximately 45,000 condoms were also distributed throughout hawaii island. Poe continued building coalitions with the hiv community planning group, the state workgroup on sexual and gender minority, and hepfree hawaii.

The kokua services partnership has been very successful in provide health equity to our marginalized populations across the state of hawaii. We have made an impact with our residents who are from the micronesian islands in the compact of freely associated states cofa. Overall, this program provided 1,532 medicaid enrollments which represented 4,975 people on the applications. 36,719 residents were reached in 51,060 one on one educational sessions and 601 outreach events. Our program subcontracts with 3 agencies on hawaii island and one agency each on oahu, maui and kauai, while participating multiple community action groups.