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HIV Prevention ServicesHIV Prevention Services

BCI provides scientifically-based interventions which enable individuals who inject drugs or practice unsafe sex to recognize their HIV risk, learn their HIV status, and develop and manage their own risk reduction plan.

 

Outreach

Outreach is an educational intervention conducted by peer educators face-to-face with at-risk individuals in their neighborhoods or other areas where they typically congregate. Our HIV Prevention unit engages those who would not seek treatment or education otherwise, providing:

  • Personalized risk-reduction strategies,

  • Mechanical skill education (e.g. condom use and needle cleaning),

  • Behavioral skill education (e.g. communication, assertiveness, and refusal skills), and

  • Assistance in identifying and accessing needed services, including treatment, housing, food, shelter, or transportation.

 

Mobile Outreach VanMobile outreach allows our staff to move to different locations in response to movement of a transient population, while providing greater privacy, safety, and resources. Our mobile outreach van is equipped for seating, HIV testing, and showing educational films.

Read an outreach worker's own words about BCI's special project to help commercial sex workers.

 

 

HIV Testing

BCI offers Free Confidential HIV Testing.

  • Rapid testing is now available; results are returned in 20 minutes.

  • Available at every Needle Exchange Site, or call 655-9880, ext. 21 for an appointment.

  • A picture ID is required.

 

Needle Exchange Program

Needle exchange is now available on a mobile van at sites throughout Wilmington. One new needle is exchanged for each used needle. To be eligible, you must be an active injection drug user, at least 14 years of age, and a resident of the city of Wilmington.

Needle exchange service sites and more information

 

Safety Net Services

  • A multifaceted program offering substance abuse treatment and pre-treatment, and HIV/AIDS services.

  • Targets women and ex-offenders returning to the community.

  • Connects the client to appropriate services and stability, depending on their readiness to enter treatment.

  • Incorporates the Safety Counts risk reduction intervention, medication management, Integrated Dual Disorders treatment, and HIV testing.

 

Safety Counts

  • An intensive harm reduction program that enables active drug users to gradually reduce their HIV risk without the penalties of a traditional treatment program.

  • Empowers the client to design and manage their own risk reduction plan, setting unique goals and taking concrete steps to make them a reality.

  • By taking charge of themselves, the client learns to control other aspects of their life, benefiting themselves, their partners, their families, and their community.

For more information about HIV Prevention Services, contact Basha Silverman at 655-9880, ext. 22.

 

 

Last updated August 14, 2008

 

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