Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Office of AIDS Programs and Policy (OAPP) 2002 HIV Testing Days media relations campaign Situation: To educate an estimated 13,000 Angelenos who are not yet aware they are infected with HIV and who are infecting others unknowingly. To inform Los Angeles County residents, especially communities of color, that free HIV testing and treatment (including medications) is available to them regardless of ability to pay or residency status. The Office of AIDS Programs and Policy sponsored HIV Testing Days in L.A., June 24 – 28 in partnership with more than 80 community medical clinics to increase HIV awareness and knowledge of risk factors. The clinics provide free, anonymous and confidential HIV testing through special Health Fairs held in conjunction with National HIV Testing Day, June 27.

Methodology: Developed an interview advisory detailing LA County’s latest HIV prevention campaign, “Love Responsibly,” that encourages personal responsibility and voluntary testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Intel 8051 Datasheet Pdf. Contacted all print and electronic media outlets offering OAPP officials as spokespeople.

Audit of Los Angeles Office of AIDS Programs and Policy Delayed Again. Spore Adventures. The release of the audit of Los Angeles County's Office of AIDS Programs and Policy has been.

Invited print and electronic media to attend a special Sunday service at Unity Fellowship Church that addressed the alarming local HIV/AIDS issues to their predominately African-American congregation and offered free on-site HIV testing. Results: According to OAPP officials, 2002 HIV Testing Days media relations effort resulted in Los Angeles County’s most successful outreach campaign to date with 54 media placements from June 9 to July 21 including: 26 radio interviews, totaling 242 minutes 11 television interviews, totaling 31.5 minutes 17 print pieces, totaling 461 column inches $788,809.02 total public relations value 11,253,046 total consumer impressions.

Los Angeles County to Audit Office of AIDS Programs and Policy over ‘Conflict of Interest’ Allegations Los Angeles County officials next week plan to audit the county's over concerns about the distribution of $80 million in county funds and state and federal grants, the reports (Rester, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 7/1). The county Board of Supervisors ordered the audit in March after HIV/AIDS activists and county officials expressed concerns that AIDS office Director Chuck Henry, who also heads the office's 50-member HIV Commission and determines the distribution of funds, had a 'conflict of interest.' Richard Espinoza, health deputy for Supervisor Don Knabe, said, 'Our office has extreme concerns of what we're hearing from the community.' In addition, county officials have alleged that the AIDS office has refused to submit reports, such as budgets. 'If the board officers aren't getting information on a timely basis, something is definitely wrong,' Espinoza said, adding, 'The information we get or don't get from the (Office of AIDS) next week will determine what we do next' ( Associated Press, 7/1). Henry, who has directed the AIDS office for four years, said that by law the office distributes grants 'according to need.'