Evidence-informed interventions that produce optimal HIV care outcomes (jail transitional care, buprenorphine, patient navigation and peer support for women of color)
People who feel understood, respected, and valued are more likely to stay in care. The resources in this collection address ways that clinics and other service providers can identify and address bias to improve communication with diverse clients.
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Best Practices and Emerging Models
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)
- HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Toolkit to help Health Centers expand the provision of HIV services.
- AIDS Action Foundation
Workbooks describing ways to help connect people living with HIV/AIDS to medical care. Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVUse of participatory arts to generate dialogue and engage individuals in receiving health care, provide a safe space to speak more freely outside the confines of the medical system, and inspire involvement in community activities.
- IHIPText Me, Girl! is a 90-day theory-based, transgender-specific, automated text-messaging intervention designed to improve engagement, retention, and health outcomes along the HIV care continuum.
- 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.
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVInnovative strategies adapted by agencies to deliver bundled interventions for improving health outcomes for Black women with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementCollection of implementation guides on evidence-informed best practices in HIV care delivery.
- SPNS Latino Access Initiative, UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Monographs describing interventions for the engagement and retention of Latinos in HIV care.
- SPNS Transgender Women of Color Initiative
Innovative models for linking and retaining transgender women of color in HIV care, developed by a multi-site demonstration project.
- National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
Exploration of the unique challenges that older adults living with HIV may face and five steps for health care providers and AIDS service providers to consider in addressing these challenges.
- IHIP
Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color living with HIV.
- Next Step and Mass CARE
Guidebook for multiple audiences that outlines steps for transitioning youth from pediatric care to adult services.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Case studies examining the effectiveness of models of peer support for Caribbean immigrants living with HIV in the U.S.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementBilingual/Bicultural Care Team that provides comprehensive culturally and linguistically appropriate HIV primary care and services to Hispanic and Latino people with HIV who speak Spanish as their primary language.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementTips on delivery of HIV care among various populations and with varied interventions.
Resources
- University of Washington
Online clinician training platform with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, care, and key populations.
- In It Together
Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.
Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.
- NASTAD
Review of the basics of trauma and modules on trauma-informed approaches in the delivery of HIV care.
- ACE TA Center
Glosè referans rapid sa a ofri esplikasyon ki fasil pou konprann nan langaj tout moun kapab konprann konsènan ekspresyon ak fraz ki gen pou wè ak enskripsyon nan swen sante pou founisè swen VIH yo.
- ACE TA Center
Use esta guía de referencia rápida para explicar términos y frases confusas y aumentar la comprensión del cliente sobre los términos técnicos comunes usados durante el proceso de inscripción.
- NMAC
The purpose of the ESCALATE training program is to facilitate transformative and relational change in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs (RWHAP) and the communities they serve.
- Indian Health Service (IHS)Primary care guide for IHS clinicians outlining initial and follow-up care for patients with HIV. Note: See source HHS guidelines at https://clinicalinfo.hiv.gov/en/guidelines
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)Esta es una serie de seis videos animados breves que brinda educación específica sobre el VIH para pacientes y está destinada especialmente a mujeres de color que viven con el VIH.
- University of California, San Francisco
Website with guidelines, articles, online learning, and connections to agencies and others involved in transgender health.
- ACE TA Center
Una vez que los clientes del RWHAP se inscriben en un seguro médico, es posible que necesiten ayuda para entender cómo funciona su cobertura, sobre todo si nunca han tenido una.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Federal resources on discrimination and health care privacy protections.
- ACE TA Center
Es posible que algunos clientes del RWHAP todavía tengan preguntas o inquietudes sobre la inscripción en coberturas médicas.
- Futures Without Violence, HRSA
Website-based toolkit on ways for agencies to establish partnerships to address intimate partner violence (IPV).
- Howard Brown Health Center
Curriculum for nurses teaching cultural competency in the care of LGBT older adults.
- National Minority AETCGuide and promising practices that address cultural competency for specific racial/ethnic populations.
Training Modules
- IHIP
Manual to help health care providers adapt SPNS models addressing how to engage hard-to-reach people with HIV (PWH) into care within their current operations.
Webinars and Training
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Web training site to educate providers on the delivery of HIV health care services for black men who have sex with men to enhance engagement/retention in care.
- Planning CHATT
- Planning CHATTDescription of how Planning Councils/Planning Bodies (PC/PBs) can move toward achieving cultural reflectiveness and responsiveness.
- IHIPPresentation on an intervention to expand HIV workforce capacity through the use of strategic community-based partnerships.
- The Bronx Health and Housing Corporation
Webinar series on ways to improve HIV primary care patient outcomes for Latinos/as who are incarcerated or have a history of incarceration, with a case study sub-analysis of transnationalism among Puerto Ricans.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)Learn how two successful programs are addressing homelessness and housing instability and behavioral health disorders, improving client engagement and retention in care, and observing improved rates of viral suppression.
- National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
Discussion of social determinants of health that create barriers to HIV prevention and care for young adult Latino(a)s. Tools shared on recognizing agency barriers to care.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
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.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Facilitator's training curriculum and slides on educating service providers about HIV/AIDS-related stigma.
Conference Presentations
Atrium Health
Presenters:
Anna Jacobs, Mindy Sampson, Leigh Medaris, Jacob Schulte, Joseph Erato, Christopher Polk
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
HRSA
Presenters:
Alex Keuroghlian, Dana Hines, Paul Sacamano, Jamie Weinand
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
HRSA
Presenters:
Sombo Pujeh, Gem Daus, Sonya Hunt Gray, Jasmine Akuffo
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Open Health Care Clinic
Presenters:
Jamie Roques, William Spatafora
2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment