Clinicians

Providing quality care to people with HIV is the mission of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP). Most Ryan White clinics use a multidisciplinary team approach where clinicians (e.g., physicians, nurses, physicians assistants) work with other staff and consumers to ensure that patients receive care and support. The resources on this website, and the support provided by HRSA training and technical assistance, can help clinicians keep abreast of complex and evolving standards in order to provide high quality care to their patients.

Resources and TA/Training for Clinicians

Access the Technical Assistance Directory for current projects that deliver support to RWHAP agencies.

Explore the following Library topics:

  • Best Practices - This collection of HIV service interventions have been reviewed for their demonstrated effectiveness at improving client health outcomes. Best Practices are identified from a broader "pipeline" of HRSA projects that investigate and develop Innovations in HIV Care: Replication Resources.
  • Clinical Quality Management - HRSA's standards and tools and resources to measure and improve performance.
  • Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative - EHE is focused on four pillars: diagnose, treat, prevent, and respond in hard hit jurisdictions.
  • Key Populations - Population-specific resources can help providers tailor programs that are more supportive of their patients' needs.
  • Medical Services - Resources cover options for delivery of varied services: primary care, adherence, substance abuse, mental health, hepatitis, TB, testing, prevention, oral health, and other topics. For a more robust collection, see the AETC National Coordinating Resource Center.
  • Support Services - Materials cover delivery of, for example, housing support and other essential "wrap-around" programs that enhance the delivery of medical care.
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Key Resources

Best Practices

Resources

  • AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)
    AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)

    HIV clinical training resources for HRSA's AIDS Education and Training Centers Program.

  • Trauma-Informed Approaches Toolkit
    NASTAD

    Review of the basics of trauma and modules on trauma-informed approaches in the delivery of HIV care.

  • Addressing STIs: Ask. Test. Treat. Repeat.
    SPNS Sexually Transmitted Infections Initiative
    Tools to help clinics improve screening, testing, and treatment of common bacterial STIs among people with HIV or at risk for HIV.
  • HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau
    HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)

    Federal agency that administers the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP), which helps low-income people with HIV receive care.

  • National Clinician Consultation Center
    National Clinician Consultation Center

    Healthcare providers can receive no-cost expert clinical consultation in HIV prevention & care, HCV treatment, and substance use management.

  • National HIV Curriculum
    University of Washington

    Online clinician training platform with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, care, and key populations.

  • Clinical Info HIV.gov
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    U.S. HIV-related treatment guidelines, drug database, and glossary.

  • HIV/AIDS Guidelines
    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    Federal guidelines for treatment, prevention and care of HIV disease, opportunistic infections, and common co-infections. 

  • HRSA HAB HIV Performance Measures
    HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)

    Performance measures to help Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program agencies monitor and improve the quality of care they deliver.

  • Hepatitis C Prescriber Toolkit
    HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)

    State-specific resources to assist providers in navigating health coverage requirements that may impact the prescription of hepatitis C treatment.

  • In It Together Health Literacy Project
    In It Together

    Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.

  • Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Technical Assistance Toolkit
    HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)

    Strategies for assessing and reducing risk of oral health disease, building oral health care provider networks and referral processes, and supporting clients through patient navigation.

  • Clinical Care Guides: Populations and Conditions

    Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.

 

Technical Assistance and Training

  • Enhancing HIV Care of Women, Infants, Children and Youth: Building Capacity through Communities of Practice
    Platform for RWHAP Part D recipients to increase the delivery of care innovations; increase the skills of staffing working with women, infant, children and youth; and support partner collaboration for dissemination of best practices.
  • AETC National Coordinating Resource Center
    The central hub of the AETC Program, the clinical training arm of the RWHAP, through HIV curricula, technical support to regional AETCs on practice transformation and best practices, and housing of all AETC-developed tools for HIV clinical staff. Project period: 2019-2024.
  • Aging with HIV Initiative
    SPNS project evaluating interventions that seek to improve the well-being of RWHAP clients 50 and older. Project period: 2022-2025.
  • Black Women First Initiative
    Design, implementation, and evaluation of bundled evidence–informed interventions for Black women with HIV. Project period: 2020-2024.
  • CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and Treatment (CHAC)
    The CHAC advises the Secretary, HHS, Director of CDC, and Administrator of HRSA, regarding objectives, strategies, policies, and priorities for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STD prevention and treatment efforts.
  • Clinician Consultation Center

    Clinician consultation on HCV management, HIV management, perinatal HIV/AIDS, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis, substance use. Project period: 2016-2025.

  • Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions

    Initiative that created four evidenced-informed Care and Treatment Interventions (CATIs) that are replicable, cost-effective, capable of producing optimal HIV care continuum outcomes, and easily adaptable to the changing health care environment. Project period: 2015-2020.

  • Integrating HIV Innovative Practices

    Adaptation of HRSA HAB SPNS program insights into practical resources.

  • National HIV Curriculum
    The NHC provides ongoing, up-to-date information needed to meet the core competency knowledge for HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and ongoing treatment and care to healthcare providers in the United States. Project period: 2020-2022.
  • Rapid ART DAP
    Project to facilitate the implementation of Rapid ART initiation in RWHAP provider settings by compiling and disseminating implementation resources nationwide. Project period: 2020-2023.
  • Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Best Practices Recipient Compilation
    Initiative documenting best practice strategies and interventions that have been shown to improve HIV outcomes in a "real world" setting and can be replicated by other programs. Project period: 2021-2024.
  • SPNS Rapid Start
    SPNS initiative on implementation and evaluation of interventions that accelerate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (Rapid Start). Project period: 2020-2023.

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