Online clinician training platform with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, care, and key populations.
HIV counseling and testing occurs in a wide range of contexts in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Situations as diverse as community outreach, partner testing, pregnancy, and labor and delivery call for special counseling approaches on the part of clinical staff. The technology of testing has continued to evolve with rapid tests, oral tests, and home tests. Finally, legal requirements for offering and documenting tests in a health care settings have also shifted in many states and jurisdictions.
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Guidelines and Manuals
- AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC), University of Washington
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Federal guidelines for treatment, prevention and care of HIV disease, opportunistic infections, and common co-infections.
Webinars and Training
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)
Across the U.S., and likely, in your own jurisdiction, Emergency Departments are a key point of entry or re-entry into the healthcare system and the only source of healthcare for many marginalized populations.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)
Rapid ART (antiretroviral therapy) is a strategy being adopted by jurisdictions across the U.S. to improve the engagement and retention in care of people with HIV.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Review of the role federally qualified health centers play in the care of people who are uninsured and medically under served, including people with HIV.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Tips on linking to the best data sources and helping the EHE team in your jurisdiction to integrate data management into implementation activities.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Overview of HIV housing strategies and program models with a focus on innovation and on leveraging a range of housing and supportive services resources to maximize housing opportunities for people with HIV.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Achieving Retention in Care and Viral Suppression to End the HIV Epidemic Webinar
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Review of the impact of SUDs (alcohol, opioids and methamphetamine) on outcomes along the HIV care continuum and effective evidence-based SUD interventions (Medication Assisted Treatment, Motivational Interviewing, and Contingency Management).
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Panel discussion of how agencies can adjust telehealth services, often developed rapidly in response to COVID-19, in a post-pandemic environment.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)
In this webinar, TAP-in is a multi-sectoral partnership of national, regional and local TA experts advancing innovation and use of evidence to support jurisdictions to achieve EHE goals.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Model approaches for community partner engagement and coordination to build an immediate response and sustain long term relationships to support interventions for the mitigation of future outbreaks.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-In)Insights for entities seeking to create or strengthen rapid ART.
- IHIP, HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Discussion of two SPNS projects that effectively engaged Latinos of Mexican descent (with focus on MSM) in HIV testing and linkage to care.
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum, NASTAD
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.
Tools and Job Aids
- SPNS Sexually Transmitted Infections Initiative
Tools to help clinics improve screening, testing, and treatment of common bacterial STIs among people with HIV or at risk for HIV.
- Yale University School of Medicine
Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting.
Reports and Best Practices
- SPNS Latino Access Initiative, UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Monographs describing interventions for the engagement and retention of Latinos in HIV care.
- HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Toolkit to help Health Centers expand the provision of HIV testing, prevention, care and treatment; build sustainable partnerships between health centers and their state health departments; and improve health outcomes among people living with HIV, especially racial/ethnic minorities.
- SPNS Systems Linkages Project
Insights from a multi-state demonstration and evaluation of innovative models for linkages to and retention in HIV care.
- AIDS Action Foundation
Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.
- 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.
- AIDS Alliance for Children Youth and Families
Resource for programs interested in developing or expanding outreach services to identify HIV-positive youth and engage and retain them in care.
Websites
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Federal agency within HHS responsible for promotion of health and well-being of Americans. It houses large domestic and global programs in HIV surveillance and prevention, and is a major partner in the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative.
- AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)
HIV clinical training resources for the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program (e.g., library of tools by topic and populations, calendar of events, directory of AETCs, clinician consultation resources). Discover AETC EHE resources for clinicians.
- National Clinician Consultation Center
Healthcare providers can receive no-cost expert clinical consultation in HIV prevention & care, HCV treatment, and substance use management.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. HIV-related treatment guidelines, drug database, and glossary.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Esta página incluye información básica sobre el VIH, hojas informativas, y afiches.
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM.