As death toll from HIV/AIDS wanes, new models for primary care emerge from decades of HIV experience

published on March 26, 2018 by Will Dean, in Desert Sun

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.”

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