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1981 |
First pediatric and adult AIDS cases diagnosed in Brooklyn. |
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SUNY Downstate's Division of Infectious Disease in the Department. of Medicine established the multi-disciplinary AIDS Team at SUNY Downstate's public hospital affiliate, Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC), providing the first clinic specifically for AIDS in Brooklyn.
Expansion of Pediatric Immunology Clinic at SUNY Downstate -- providing HIV counseling and testing as well as clinical trials for children.
First year of the Perinatal HIV Transmission Study. |
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1987 |
Clinical training to community-based physicians on HIV/AIDS begins.
Infant and Child Learning Center is established to provide early intervention services for HIV-infected infants and children. |
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1988 |
A 10 bed inpatient HIV unit is established at SUNY Downstate's University Hospital of Brookyn (UHB).
The AIDS Prevention Center is established, providing HIV counseling and testing to adults as well as education and outreach.
Development of the AIDS Prevention Center - providing counseling and testing to adults as well as education and outreach.
First year of the Heterosexual AIDS Transmission Study.
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1989 |
Development of the Brooklyn Pediatric AIDS Network -- providing comprehensive case management and primary care to HIV infected children in Brooklyn.
Development of the Adolescent Education Program - providing peer-led community-based HIV education to teens throughout Brooklyn. |
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1990 |
Development of the Pediatric-Maternal HIV Center -- providing HIV primary care to children at KCHC.
Development of the Brooklyn Group Support Project (now Supportive Counseling Services of SUNY) - providing support groups for HIV infected individuals and their families.
Development of the HIV Clinical Scholars Program - two year fellowship providing specialty training to clinicians in HIV disease.
First year of the Women and Infants Transmission Study.
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1991 |
SUNY's University Hospital of Brooklyn becomes a New York State AIDS Designated Center.
Development of the STAR Clinic (now STAR Health Center) - first outpatient HIV clinic on SUNY Downstate campus.
First year of the Women's AIDS Cohort Study - prospective study examining the manifestations of HIV disease in women.
Development of SUNY AIDS Clinical Trials Unit - first adult clinical trials unit in Brooklyn (emphasizing trials for women and minorities).
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1992 |
Development of Central/East European HIV Education Center.
Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Program begins serving the needs of HIV-infected adolescents at KCHC.
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1993 |
Development of The HIV Center for Women and Children, to help coordinate the activities of all HIV-related programs directed by SUNY Downstate faculty.
Development of the HIV Clinical Education Initiative - providing on-site training to area health care providers in HIV disease.
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1994 |
Development of the Co-Located HIV/Gynecologic Care Program - providing both HIV and gynecologic care to HIV infected women at four sites at SUNY Downstate and Kings County Hospital Center.
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1995 |
Two clinical textbooks, HIV Infection in Women and Primary Care of Women and Children with HIV: A Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by HIV Center faculty are published.
The Maternal and Pediatric Services of Brooklyn (MAPS) program is funded through HRSA's Special Projects of National Significance program to develop a model system for the prevention of perinatal HIV transmission at three Brooklyn hospitals.
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1997 |
The Health and Education Alternatives for Teens (HEAT) Clinic is selected as a Clinical Science Group site as part of the NIH-funded Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network.
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1998 |
The Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Units at University Hospital of Brooklyn and Kings County Hospital Center are consolidated.
The Special Treatment and Research (STAR) Clinic consolidates with the in-patient HIV care unit at University Hospital of Brooklyn.
Adult clinical trials are offered to STAR Clinic patients.
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1999 |
The Special Treatment and Research (STAR) Clinic is renamed the STAR Health Center, reflecting a renewed vision of providing first-rate interdisciplinary health care to all persons with HIV disease.
The Special Treatment and Research (STAR) Program is awarded targeted Ryan White funding from a Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) initiative for a new outreach project entitled—Educating People at Risk (EPAR).
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2000 |
The CDC funds SUNY Downstate's first large-scale, randomized community-based HIV/STD behavioral intervention project. |
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2001 |
The STAR Health Center (SHC) receives funding for the development of the first clinic in Brooklyn for the treatment of people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C.
The SHC begins providing comprehensive mental health/substance use treatment through funding from the NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute.
The HEAT Program is awarded Ryan White Title IV (now Part D) funding through HRSA to establish a comprehensive care network to identify, enroll, and retain HIV-infected youth in medical care, and establish a youth service provider network in Brooklyn. |
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Dr. Tracey Wilson was awarded 3 years of funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct “Implementation of IDSA/CDC Guidelines for HIV Prevention,” a demonstration project to assess the effectiveness of guidelines to incorporate sexual and drug use risk reduction activities into the HIV medical care setting. |
2006
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The STAR Program was awarded $1,271,600 over 5 years from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop and implement substance abuse, HIV and hepatitis prevention interventions for minority and reentry populations in Brooklyn. |
2007
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The STAR Program was awarded a $160,000 grant from the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) to establish a twinning partnership with the Centre for Health Systems Research and Development (CHSR&D) at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. Through a Cooperative Agreement with HRSA, AIHA established an “HIV/AIDS Twinning Center” (www.twinningagainstaids.org) to support partnership and volunteer activities as part of the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The goal of this partnership is to strengthen the capacity of CHSR&D faculty to manage their current HIV and TB research projects that inform HIV and TB healthcare practice and policy in the Free State, a largely rural area with a population of 2.9 million and an estimated HIV seroprevalence rate of 31%, the third highest rate of all the provinces in South Africa.
The NIH renewed the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) grant (Minkoff, PI) ($15,000,000 for an additional 5 years). The WIHS is a collaborative, multi-site, longitudinal study that began in 1994 to investigate the natural history of HIV infection in US women, and represents one of the largest prospective cohort studies of HIV-infected and uninfected women in existence. Its six sites are located in California (Los Angeles, San Francisco), Chicago, IL, the Washington, DC area and New York City (Bronx and SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn). |
2008
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The STAR Program (DeHovitz, PI) received an award of $2,250,000 over five years from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to expand and enhance substance abuse treatment services in conjunction with HIV/AIDS services for high-risk substance abusing adults in Central Brooklyn. A major focus of this proposal is to introduce the use of buprenorphine (an alternative to methadone) into HIV care.
The STAR Program received an award of $780,080 over five years from the NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute to enable the STAR Health Center Treatment Adherence Program to increase HIV treatment knowledge and adherence among HIV seropositive patients, and reduce HIV-associated morbidity and mortality.
The STAR Program received an award of $259,826 over two years from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health to train researchers to address the problem of cervical cancer among HIV seropositive and seronegative women in Central and Eastern Europe. This project will build on the research training infrastructure provided by the New York State International Training and Research Program (NYS-ITRP), a cooperative program of SUNY Downstate, the SUNY Albany School of Public Health, and the New York State Department of Health.
The STAR Program received an award of $294,000 from the NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute to serve as a state-wide Prevention and Substance Use Center under the Clinical Education Initiative (CEI). The CEI Center will provide state-of-the-art education and training workshops on prevention and substance use to front-line HIV care clinicians throughout New York State.
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