Innovative HIV Care Strategies Using a Comprehensive Approach to Address the Needs of Priority Populations

This webinar features two interventions that use a comprehensive approach to address specific challenges faced by people of color with HIV.

• The Black Women’s Project (BWP) focuses on delivering bundled evidence-informed intervention components to Black cisgender and transgender women with HIV. The intervention centers on a holistic approach to continued engagement in HIV care by bundling HIV treatment with evidence-informed trauma-based behavioral health access, trans-life care, and enhanced case management. The BWP seeks to address barriers many Black women experience in remaining engaged in care including HIV stigma, institutional racism and other socio-cultural determinants of health, intimate or domestic partner violence, housing instability, unemployment, and post-traumatic stress disorder all while balancing work and family responsibilities. The BWP works to improve health outcomes for Black women with HIV in a culturally responsive and relevant way through the delivery of bundled intervention components that, when implemented together, have a greater impact on positive health outcomes than when delivered separately.
• The Curing Hepatitis C among People of Color with HIV intervention supported a multifaceted approach to help people with HIV prevent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection or reinfection. This includes expanding HCV prevention, testing, care, and treatment capacity; improving coordination of linkage to and retention in HCV care and treatment for people with both HIV and HCV; bolstering coordination of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)-funded substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers to deliver behavioral health and SUD treatment support; and enhancing state, local, and tribal health department surveillance systems, increasing their capacity to monitor acute and chronic infections of HIV and HCV in areas of high populations of low-income, uninsured, and underserved racial and ethnic minorities.

This session is part of the IHIP Webinar Series, Replicating Innovative HIV Care Strategies in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

CE credit is available for individuals who attend the live webinar. To learn more about CE credits offered through the IHIP webinar series, visit the IHIP Continuing Education Information page.