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.
Health Literacy
Educating patients can make them better care partners and improve their engagement in their own health improvement.
Best Practices
- AIDS Action Foundation
- 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 HIVSlide summary and apps/training tools from 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.
- Best Practices CompilationSoutheast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative, Inc., a network of community health centers serving Southern Mississippi, uses data-driven quality improvement techniques to identify youth who are not virally suppressed or have missed appointments. Medical case managers use a client checklist to identify and address barriers to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and medical care adherence. They also use a health literacy visual illustration tool to help youth understand the effects of ART on viral suppression. The intervention strategy was successful in improving viral suppression rates for youth.
- Best Practices CompilationSBIRT is designed to screen clients for drug and alcohol use, educate clients on the risks of use, and connect them to substance use treatment services if necessary. SBIRT is an evidence-informed intervention that has been adapted by HIV experts in collaboration with community members to improve health outcomes among people with HIV. Two sites implemented SBIRT as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. Among the clients enrolled in SBIRT, the percentage with a prescription of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and who reached viral suppression both increased significantly.
- 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.
- Best Practices CompilationWellness Web 2.0 is a text message-based intervention that offers health education tools, appointment reminders, and navigation services to increase linkage to and retention in care for youth and young adults with HIV. Clients across 27 counties in South Texas enrolled in the Wellness Web 2.0 program had improvements in linkage to HIV medical care and viral suppression.
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.
Training Modules
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Provider training on the delivery of HIV health care services for black men who have sex with men to enhance engagement/retention in care.
Webinars
- IHIPWebinar series featuring HIV care innovations developed under HRSA SPNS projects.
Conference Presentations
Atrium Health
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
Taylor Gleffe, Daniel Howell
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
NMAC
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
Evan Thornburg
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
University of California, San Diego Mother Child Adolescent HIV Program
Patricia Lopez, Paola Nieto-Aguayo
2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment