When celebrated author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra visited Palm Springs in early February, he had an epiphany. Invited to be a featured speaker in the Palm Springs Speaks lecture series, he visited Desert AIDS Project before his event that evening. While touring the campus Chopra realized he was seeing the real-life manifestation of what he’d been advocating for decades.
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High levels of inflammation also are a factor in recurrent sexually transmitted inflections like syphilis, according to Lichtenstein. Six months to a year ago, Eisenhower Health started a sexual health clinic that addresses STIs; HIV prevention through pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-negative people engaged in high-risk sexual practices; and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) treatment as prevention for HIV-positive who engage in high-risk sex. The latter are asked to visit the clinic every three months.
Eisenhower has made a concerted effort to serve the whole person in other ways, including the recent addition of psychiatrist Dr. John Roberts. Bringing in a social worker and dermatological and urological services also are being considered, Lichtenstein said. And there are plans to attach a pharmacy to the Rimrock facility for patients’ convenience.
“We’d like to have a nationally recognized HIV program,” Lichtenstein said. “Part of it has to do with having a lot of additional things.”