NENCPPH launched the mobile clinic project, Health in Motion, in northeastern North Carolina. The goal of the NENCPPH mobile clinic was to provide at risk populations access to Human immune virus (HIV) prevention and primary care and treatment services. The mobile clinic also visited communities to provide screenings for cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension, and infectious diseases. Health in Motion received funding from a Ryan White Title II grant and a Kate B. Reynolds grant.
The Northeastern Partnership’s Regional HIV Program expanded the partners’ capacity:
- To deliver Primary Medical HIV care at five regional mobile care sites (Bertie, Beaufort, Dare, and Halifax Counties in the NENCPPH region, and also to Lenoir County)
- To provide nontraditional HIV/STD testing services targeting communities considered at risk (573 individuals were tested for HIV in 2007)
- To raise awareness of HIV and provide HIV prevention education (40 outreach activities occurred in 2007).
The partnership received additional funding through grants to promote and sustain this initiative through increased staffing of a regional coordinated care team, funding two regional nontraditional testing coordinators, and funding a jail HIV/STD testing coordinator.