Peer Linkage and Re-engagement of Women of Color with HIV

This peer linkage and re-engagement intervention has been informed and adapted from the best practice findings of a past SPNS initiative that yielded successful HIV care continuum outcomes among client participants.

Peers can motivate attitudinal and behavioral changes in people with HIV.

Replication resources

These evidence-informed intervention resources were developed to support interested sites in replicating this intervention and completing the necessary implementation processes.

Training to implement

• Care and Treatment Interventions (CATIs) Manual
• Training Curriculum (English) (Spanish)
• Training Curriculum Slides (English) (Spanish)
• Technical Assistance Agenda

Additional information

• Intervention Summary
• Spotlight: When Clients Become Employees
• Spotlight: Collaborations between Early Intervention Specialists and Peer and Patient Navigators
• Educational Videos (English) (Spanish)
• DEII Intervention Sustainability Report
• Intervention Evaluation Protocols

About this intervention

1. What is it?
   A peer-focused model to increase linkages and retention to care among women of color.
2. Why is it needed?
   Peers, people with HIV supporting other with HIV, can help remove client barriers and improve access to HIV primary care and support services because they have often bring a similar lived experience.
3. Who can deliver it?
   Organizations, agencies, and clinics considering a short-term, peer-focused model to increase linkage and re-engagement.
4. How do I use these resources?
   These resources are meant to support replication of the intervention. Manuals outline replication processes and curricula support training activities. Additional resources help provide insight from grant recipients or from other areas of the project.

Background

This intervention is part of the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions project—the first SPNS project of its kind to apply a rigorous implementation science approach and evaluate intervention replication and fidelity of evidence-informed intervention models across the country.