Office of the Assistant Commissioner - is comprised of the Assistant Commissioner, the Office of the Medical Director,
Special Projects and Policy Planning. The Assistant Commissioner has overall administrative and managerial responsibility for all Division activities. The
Medical Director provides medical and scientific consultation, and supervisesthe Public Health Residency Program. The office of Special Projects coordinates
division-wide initiatives such as Project IMPACT and Project FAITH, and works closely with all units to develop new programs to address unmet needs. The Office
of Policy and Planning develops and reviews HIV/AIDS policies, oversees legislativeactivity and coordinates divisional planning activities.
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Administrative Services and Contract Monitoring -
provides administrative support services to the Division. The unit is responsible
for Human Resources Management, Accounting and Procurement, and Grants Management.
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Care and Treatment Unit - oversees the development of integrated systems of care designed to address the care and treatment needs of persons living with HIV in New Jersey. This unit serves as the Ryan White Title II grantee in New Jersey and oversees the CARE Activities, which include the AIDS Drug Distribution Program, the HIV Home Care Program, the Health Insurance Continuation Program, and the regional HIV Care Services.
This unit is also responsible for overseeing the development, coordination
and maintenance of geographically accessible, comprehensive HIV networks
of counseling and testing and intervention services in the state. Federal
funding through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is combined
with state funding to support: HIV counseling and testing programs;
referral to early intervention and ambulatory care resources; data
analysis; and program evaluation. Other projects administered through
this office include the federal Housing Opportunities for Persons with
AIDS (HOPWA) program, HIV/AIDS care and support services, and the HIV
Early Intervention Programs (EIP) which offer medical care and case
management for persons living with HIV.
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Prevention and Education Unit - is responsible for planning, establishing, developing, and monitoring community-based
HIV prevention projects that utilize street/community outreach, health education/risk
reduction interventions, HIV prevention case management and community-level interventions
to reduce high risk behavior among injection drug users (IDU) and their sex partners,
men who have sex with men, and at-risk women and youth. In response to trends
and shifts in the epidemic, this unit supports a number of targeted special initiatives
that include the Faith Initiative, Drop-in Center Initiative, Patient Incentive
Programs for IDUs, and the Prevention with Positives Initiative. The Prevention
and Education unit is responsible for statewide provision of HIV-related training
for HIV antibody test counselors, educators, and care/service providers (Schedule).
Staff also provides on-going technical assistance to community-based HIV prevention
projects. The unit provides the public with information via the NJ AIDS/STD Hotline
(1-800-624-2377).
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Epidemiologic Services Unit -
collects, manages, reviews, analyzes, interprets, and disseminates information from HIV/AIDS surveillance activities. These activities include case finding epidemiologic investigations and HIV incidence and behavioral studies. The data containing all the confidential HIV and AIDS case reports from field investigations, health care providers and laboratories is analyzed, interpreted and maintained in the confidential HIV/AIDS registry. Summary reports are disseminated through the HIV/AIDS
semi-annual summaries.
The Unit's Notification Assistance Program (NAP) provides field investigators who conduct confidential field investigations of sexual and needle-sharing partners of HIV infected individuals, and conducts post-test follow-up of confidentially tested HIV positive patients who fail to return for their test results. Field investigators also conduct HIV counseling and testing of sex and needle-sharing partners located. HIV testing is conducted by a non-invasive procedure to collect oral mucosal transudate.
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HIV/AIDS Services
