Evidence-informed HIV care interventions (jail transitional care, buprenorphine, patient navigation, peer support for women of color).
Educating patients can make them better care partners and improve their engagement in their own health improvement.
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Best Practices
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)
- 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.
- IHIPHHOME is a mobile care and systems intervention that helps connect vulnerable and homeless individuals in San Francisco to rapid HIV treatment.
- IHIPKC Life 360 is an employment-focused intervention that utilizes the intersection between employment services, HIV care and treatment, and housing to improve health outcomes of people with HIV.
- University of Texas Health, San Antonio, SPNS HCV Cure among People of Color with HIVSlides with summaries of the SPNS initiative, Curing Hepatitis C among People of Color Living with HIV including: evaluation questions; dissemination activities; and site reports.
- IHIP
Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color living with HIV.
- Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i)Healthy Divas is an evidence-informed intervention that empowers transgender women with HIV to accomplish personalized gender affirmation and HIV health goals through peer-facilitated counseling sessions.
- Best Practices CompilationThe University of Mississippi Medical Center implemented a Postpartum Retention and Engagement Quality Improvement Initiative in 2017 to improve linkage to care, retention in care, and viral suppression among postpartum women with HIV. This intervention uses a combination of care coordination, printed materials, case management services, and improved collaboration and coordination between the Adult Special Care Clinic, which provides comprehensive HIV medical care, and a Perinatal HIV Program. The comprehensive intervention significantly improved retention in HIV care and increased viral suppression at both six and 12 months postpartum.
- Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i)T.W.E.E.T. is an evidence-informed intervention that engages transgender women into HIV care through peer-led health education groups, leadership opportunities, supportive services, and community building.
Resources
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. HIV-related treatment guidelines, drug database, and glossary.
- In It Together
Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.
- ACE TA Center
Overview of Medicare eligibility and coverage for RWHAP clients and other people with HIV.
- ACE TA CenterInteractive course to build the health insurance literacy skills of RWHAP staff so they can better help clients with health coverage decisions.
- 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 CenterConsumer-friendly poster series to spark consumers and providers to discuss treatment as prevention and use of their health coverage to support it.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Federal agency within HHS responsible for promotion of health and well-being of Americans.
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)Series of six brief, animated videos with HIV-specific patient education tailored for women of color with HIV.
- 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.
- AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)
An evidence-based online curriculum for healthcare providers and trainers of health care providers on HIV/HCV co-infection among people of color.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Library of text messages for patients, developed by the UCARE4Life research study.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Toolkit for planning a peer training program for HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people with HIV in health care.
Webinars
- 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.
- IHIPWebinar series featuring HIV care innovations developed under the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau’s Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) program. Sessions share insights on how to replicate SPNS interventions.
- 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.
- ACE TA Center
Review of the importance of health literacy and health insurance literacy for people with HIV and how to help clients navigate the health care environment.
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
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Presenters:
Taylor Gleffe, Daniel Howell
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
NMAC
Presenters:
Charles Shazor Jr., Cora Trelles Cartagena, Lauren Miller
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Presenters:
Evan Thornburg
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
University of California, San Diego Mother Child Adolescent HIV Program
Presenters:
Patricia Lopez, Paola Nieto-Aguayo
2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment