Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch (Kunming)
Our Mission: To prevent all infectious diseases in Taipei Infectious disease control department: STD and AIDS Prevention and Control Main tasks: • Prevention and Control – Education and training • Medical service – STD clinics • STD/HIV case management Education and training: – Chun-Huei Project: Cooperation with Bureau of Education High risk group prevention: MSM • Seeding of teachers and peer educators training Sex workers • Peer education and screening Seed teachers and peer educators training Little YG group established Harm reduction Work on the internet • Gay website link • Online Questions and Answers • Discussions about safer sex, club drug used, etc • Screening information Screening and education at gay venues Setting up a private website through which all staff at AIDS prevention NGOs can share news and information Prevention and control of disease among sex workers Medical service • Clinics: STD cases • The new case counseling • Blood testing and other STD sample collection • Health education for the STD or methadone cases • Case Notification and OPD case management service Harm reduction program • This includes NSP and MMT 1. Free clean needles and syringes on exchange • NSP service. Call 0968-951-552 for sharps collection of NSP and the NSP educational package. Our great pharmacies where pharmacists in community practice provide HIV counseling, MMT referral and a NSP service Needle-syringe exchange program • Needles-syringes reclaimed • Harm reduction by waste needle-syringe reclaimation • NSP bus • Bus stops: Mon-ga Park andWan-hua District or call for the service. Our services include: Individual case management • Each case has his/her own manager • Before entry to theMMT, we will provide an individual consultation . • After MMT, we will follow up the case situation. • Special cases having health, economic and employment problems are provided with referrals where needed. Social resources linking • Employment Service Center will visit and provide individual case counseling fortnightly. • Professional Social Workers will help to decide what is needed and provide the services. Methadone Group consultation • Every Tuesday and Thursday • Open group Training peer educators • Use MMT patients to help IDU users. • We have already helped transform 11 IDU users into our colleagues . Each IDU user has individual consultations • Individual consultation before the IDU case leaves jail every month. • HIV counseling and health education in prison Family support Group • Set up in January 2010 • Helping families to build up their support network through sharing their own experiences.
Taipei City Hospital Kunming Branch
TB Prevention and Control
Community Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control/ Drug Abuse Prevention
– Targeting of High risk groups
– Harm reduction program
– HIV/AIDS special clinics
– Methadone maintenance therapy
– Dental clinics (only for HIV+ cases)
– Laboratory specializing in STDs
Health education of the general public
– Website teaching
– Teaching in collaboration with correctional institutions
– Universal HIV testing program
– Hotline for STD counseling
– Hotline for needle stick event management (for medical, police and fire personnel)
– Professionals training of doctors, nurses and pharmacists
– Development of teaching materials and aids
• Screening and education in gay venues
• Condom promotion
• Case management
• Education and blood testing for special businesses
Sex workers prevention
• Special clinic: HIV /AIDS patients
• Dental clinic: only for HIV/AIDS patients
• Screening clinic: provides blood testing and counseling
• Methadone clinic: heroin users
• Anonymous screening
OPD combine with Public Health Prevention
Laboratory
• The community pharmacy provides
2. A syringe vending machine
• NSP does not encourage IDU