Innovative Approaches to Engaging Hard-to-Reach Populations Living with HIV/AIDS into Care: Tools from the Integrating HIV Innovative Practices Program

Author(s): IHIPHRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)

Training Manual

This training manual helps health care providers adapt SPNS models. It addresses how to engage hard-to-reach people with HIV into care, within their current operations. The manual includes an overview of underserved populations most impacted by HIV and covers:

  • The barriers they face in accessing HIV prevention
  • Testing
  • Treatment and Care

Also included is a list of resources and other information to further assist with the replication process.

Training Manual

Curriculum

The curriculum provides clinicians the information they need to educate staff and other stakeholders on how to replicate models of care developed to engage and retain hard-to-reach populations into HIV medical care. It also can serve as a quality improvement initiative. The curriculum is geared to helping agencies build their capacity to reach and serve people with HIV, from marginalized and underserved populations that are not engaged in care, are unstable in or sporadically in care, and/or have fallen out of care.

Curriculum

Webinar: Outreach

This webinar introduces providers to several successful strategies for reaching the most vulnerable populations.

Webinar: Outreach

Webinar

Speakers provide insights relevant to a wide range of audiences from clinicians to social workers, including the use of data systems to improve in-reach.

Webinar: In-reach

Webinar: Empowering the Patient

Topics covered include motivational interviewing, enhanced case management, and engagement and retention of Latinos in HIV care.

Webinar: Empowering the Patient