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FROM: VVI 1`ra
INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Costa
DATE*. June 13 , 1988 Co^
SUBJECT: Status Report on Three-Year AIDS Plan
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
1. Acknowledge receipt of the status report on the activities
of the Health Services Department in addressing the problem
of AIDS in Contra Costa County.
2. Leave this matter on referral to our Committee for
continuing oversight.
BACKGROUND:
The Board of Supervisors referred to the 1988 Internal Operations
Committee the Health Services Director' s three-year AIDS response
plan in order that our Committee might provide continuing
oversight and monitoring of the plan. Mr. Finucane, Dr. Wendel
Brunner and Francine Wise met with our Committee on June 13 ,
1988. Mr. Finucane presented the attached statistics to our.
Committee indicating that 223 cases of AIDS have been reported to
the Health Officer through May 31, 1988. Of these, 140, or 63%,
are, deceased.
Mr. Finucane reported that on the more positive side, the Bay
Area Health Officers have been meeting monthly for nearly a year
and a half on the AIDS crisis. They have recently hired a
full-time staff person through the Association of Bay Area
Governments to assist them. In addition, the State Department of
Health Services has finally released a State AIDS plan for
California which provides some statewide direction to what has
been essentially local and regional efforts.
We were advised that the Health Services Department started an
AIDS clinic in March which is seeing 10 to 12 patients a week.
At the same time, the Health Services Department continues to
operate testing sites throughout the County which are now seeing
300 patients a. month. This is a reduction from the nearly 500
patients a month being seen recently.
While it is clear that AIDS continues to be a problem in this
County, it also seems clear that our Health Services Department
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE:
_ RECOMMEND TION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE s : Sunne kc� eak Tom Torlakson
ACTION OF BOARD ON June Z1 , 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc: County Administrator ATTESTED
Health Services Director
Dr. Wendel Brunner, HSD PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY__Q ,DEPUTY
M382/7-83
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is doing everything possible within the resources they have
available to provide education to the public and to provide
treatment and support to individuals diagnosed with AIDS or an
AIDS-related condition.
The Health Services Department staff provided. us with a packet of
brochures and other educational information which is •now
available through the Health Services Department. Since it
appears that education is one of the few effective means we have
of preventing AIDS, we believe these efforts on the part of the
Health Services Department should be recognized and supported.
We will continue meeting with Mr. Finucane and his staff
periodically and will report back to the Board as efforts warrant
further reports.