HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau has adopted a broad strategy for identifying HIV service delivery models. At one end of the spectrum are relatively flexible criteria for identifying emerging and innovative models, based on “real world” efficacy. At the other end of the spectrum are more rigorous evidence-informed standards.
Best Practices
- Center for Innovation and EngagementCollection of implementation guides on evidence-informed best practices in HIV care delivery.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and HealthResources to help clinics integrate community health workers (CHW) into an HIV multidisciplinary team model.
- IHIPProject to enhance the provision of HIV care for Latina transgender women in Los Angeles County.
- IHIPMulti-level messaging intervention focused on linking Latinos with HIV to high quality HIV primary care in Dallas County, Texas. Individual-, group- and community-level strategies.
- The HIV, Housing & Employment ProjectCOVID-19 adjustments developed by Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Examination of potential areas for bi-directional sharing between the U.S. Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
- SPNS Social Media Initiative
Social media tools developed by demonstration sites (e.g., text messaging, apps).
- HRSA/SPNS Workforce Initiative
Insights on operating Care Teams: multidisciplinary collection of providers who work together to meet multiple patient needs to improve care delivery and outcomes. Best practices cover: preparation, staffing, buy-in, formalization, and adaptability.
- SPNS Transgender Women of Color Initiative
Innovative models for linking and retaining transgender women of color in HIV care.
- Center for Advancing Health Policy and Practice
Insights from a HRSA SPNS initiative on care coordinator/patient navigation interventions for vulnerable populations.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
SPNS innovative and replicable HIV service delivery models using HIV+ peers.
- IHIP
Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color living with HIV.
- AIDS Alliance for Children Youth and Families
Resource for programs interested in developing or expanding outreach services to identify HIV-positive youth and engage and retain them in care.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementIntervention to re-engage people with HIV to care by utilizing a real-time data exchange system that connects clients with health department linkage specialists when presenting to the emergency department.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementClinic-based mobile health intervention that promotes linkage to and engagement in HIV care in rural areas for people with HIV who are new to care or at risk of falling out of care.
Resources
- SPNS Sexually Transmitted Infections InitiativeTools to help clinics improve screening, testing, and treatment of common bacterial STIs among people with HIV or at risk for HIV.
- In It Together
Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), IHIP
Tools on ways to expand/replicate innovative models of oral health care for people with HIV.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.
- Yale University School of Medicine
Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Methods that involve persons with HIV to help link others into care.
- SPNS HIV/HCV Data-to-Care Initiative
Jurisdictions and their partner clinics used different approaches to implement Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Data to Care project activities based on their previous experience, data management infrastructure, ability to share data, and staffing resources.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderConsiderations for how state agency staff can develop and maintain an accessible, HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) service inventory.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderTool to support state health departments in identifying opportunities for enhanced coordination between HIV and OUD funding and service provision.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderDescription of the role of peers in care for people with HIV and OUD and how a state’s Medicaid program can fund peer services.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderTool for addressing stigma in relation to systems-level policies and practices that can improve individual level interventions.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderGuide on how to coordinate HIV/HCV treatment with substance use treatment and recovery.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderDescription of two states' approaches to building and supporting an HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) workforce and considerations for investing in a collaborative workforce.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderThis library includes various substance use screening tools. These tools are intended to provide a valid and reliable snapshot of a client 's substance use, which may point toward a need for further assessment and specialized support.
- Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use DisorderDiscussion guide to elicit a conversation about language, stigma, and discrimination as a means of strengthening care systems.
- Abt Associates
Curriculum of educational sessions to promote client engagement and retention in HIV care, based on evidence informed practices, including motivational interviewing.
- HRSA/SPNS Workforce Initiative
A stepwise practice transformation approach for health care organizations seeking to add HIV care or to increase services for people with HIV.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Guide to best practices for enhancing services to youth with HIV to better outcomes in both retention and viral load suppression.
- IHIP
Insights on ways that HIV care programs have improved health outcomes along the HIV care continuum.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Cross-disciplinary training curriculum to increase knowledge and awareness of the relationship between HIV infection and substance use. Also available in Spanish (Version en español).
Training Modules
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Resources on HCV treatment among HIV coinfected patients.
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Provider training on the delivery of HIV health care services for black men who have sex with men to enhance engagement/retention in care.
- IHIPTested resources for implementing jail linkage programs and assisting organizations in expanding their current jail work. Includes a manual, curriculum, fact sheets, and webinars.
- IHIP
Tools to help health care providers adapt SPNS models within their existing operations in order to better engage hard-to-reach people with HIV into care.
Webinars
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Pre-application webinars for Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcements from HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).
- IHIPWebinar series featuring HIV care innovations developed under HRSA SPNS projects.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in)Recordings of the TAP-in webinars on topics critical to the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative.