1Coalition is funded by The AIDS FUNDING COLLABORATIVE Responsive Grant; Ginn Foundation and Serenity Health and Wellness Corporation (SHWC) established 1Coalition to advance HIV education and reduce HIV and STD infection to those who reside in Cleveland’s underserved and under-resourced communities.
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By the numbers: In 2021, the most recent year with data available, Cleveland saw 133 new HIV diagnoses, down 8% from 2020. 80% of the diagnoses in Cuyahoga County each year are in the city of Cleveland.
In 2020, 4,664 people lived with HIV in Cleveland (Cuyahoga County). In 2020, 170 people were newly diagnosed with HIV.
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The Cleveland Department of Public Health (CDPH) Office of HIV/AIDS responds to the HIV epidemic in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. CDPH coordinates services to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and improves health outcomes for those at risk for, living with, or affected by HIV.
The goal of the Community Development Block Grant HIV/AIDS Prevention Program is to reduce the rate of new HIV infections among Cleveland residents.
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Visit CDBG Partners Here:
AIDS Funding Collaborative (AFC)
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland (ATGC)
LGBT Cleveland
The Centers (CIRCLE)
Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services (NEON)
The City of Cleveland is the recipient of a grant for the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS Program (HOPWA) from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"). The HOPWA Program provides resources and incentives to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS or related diseases ("PLWHAs") and their families.
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Visit HOPWA Partners Here:
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland (ATGC)
Emerald Development & Economic Network (EDEN)
Joseph’s Home (Joe HM)
Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH)
Nueva Luz Urban resource Center (NLURC)
The Hard Truth
New HIV Diagnoses in the US and Dependent Areas by Race and Ethnicity, 2021. CDC
40%
Black/African American
29%
Hispanic/Latino
25%
White
Cuyahoga County HIV Facts and Figures
In Ohio, about 25,000 people are living with HIV. The most impacted communities are men who engage in sex with men, transwomen, and Black men and transwomen who have sex with men.
Black people in Ohio make up about 44% of people living with HIV, a huge disproportion considering Black people are roughly 12.5% of Ohio’s total population.
Of the new diagnoses, 80% were among males, and 48% were among African American males, over half of the total male infection rate and nearly half of the total infection rate in Ohio. (Note: the epidemiological data does not separate gender and sex assigned at birth, an issue advocates have been working to change.)
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This can be attributed to social determinants of health, one of the lingering effects of racism and marginalization in this country.
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Cuyahoga County has the second highest HIV infection rate of all counties in Ohio at 21% of total infections, just 1% behind Franklin County, where Columbus, Ohio’s most populated city, is located. At MetroHealth, we average about 1 new infection per week or 52 per year. Infection rates have remained steady for the past 6 years, averaging 965 new infections in the state per year, 150 to 190 of those from Cuyahoga County.
More education and easily accessible prevention methods are needed to break the plateau and reduce this number. Our goal as a collective HIV community is to reduce the number of new infections to zero.
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The condition has a significant impact on our community. In Cuyahoga County, 5,180 people were living with HIV in 2020, according to the Ohio Department of Health. New ways to reduce HIV risk are continuously being developed, including PrEP, the medication that lowers HIV infection risk by 99%.
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John T. Carey Special Immunology Unit
Preventive Care Clinic for Patients at High Risk for HIV
The John T. Carey Special Immunology Unit at University Hospitals has an HIV Biomedical Prevention Clinic for people at high risk of acquiring HIV infection.
The clinic offers those individuals the opportunity to take medication and other preventive methods to reduce their risk of infection.
Contact the HIV Prevention Clinic
For an appointment or more information, please call the PrEP navigator at 216-286-PREP (7737).