Linking to Care
Linkage services are critical to helping people living with HIV find and stay in care. For newly diagnosed people, rapid (same day) linkage is becoming a standard. Patients undergoing life transitions (moving, loss of insurance, release from jail or prison) need linkage services that are sensitive to their situations.
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Guidelines and Manuals
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February 2018
Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.
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Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions ProjectNovember 2017
Evidence-informed HIV Care And Treatment Intervention (CATI) packages.
Webinars and Training
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)September 2018
Highlights of two programs that successfully engaged in HIV care hard-to-reach and serve clients via delivery of HIV primary care, behavioral health, and housing.
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Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, Abt Associates, HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)August 2018
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)July 2018
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.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)July 2018
Evidence-Informed Interventions from the SPNS Transgender Women of Color Initiative.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareApril 2017
This webinar outlined the practical impact and cost-effectiveness of housing interventions as HIV prevention and care, and direct participants to resources that can be used to inform HIV housing programming and advocacy.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareMarch 2017
This webinar presents successful models for enhancing linkage, retention, and continuity of HIV care for returning citizens.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareJanuary 2017
Webinar review of research on housing as a structural intervention with a positive causal correlation to improved health outcomes for people living with HIV, prevention of HIV transmission, and cost effectiveness.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareSeptember 2016
In this webinar, Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, will discuss the value of behavioral health integration for LGBT patients, and how advancing behavioral health integration in primary care settings can improve patient access, engagement, and both physical and behavioral health outcomes.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareOctober 2015
Review of syringe access service delivery, principles of harm reduction, and models of how programs at community-based organizations have been successful in connecting drug users to HIV screening, prevention, treatment, and care in both urban and rural settings.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareApril 2015
This webinar discusses engaging Boston youth into HIV care and describe how racial justice-focused structural change initiatives can help optimize this work.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareMarch 2015
Discussion of how programs can use HIV laboratory surveillance data to identify persons who have fallen out of care in order to guide re-linkage efforts (Data to Care).
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)December 2013
Lessons learned, tips, and tools from participants in the SPNS Innovations in Oral Health Care Initiative.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)September 2013
Resources on implementing jail linkage programs and assisting organizations in expanding their current jail work.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2013
Tools to help health care providers adapt SPNS models addressing how to engage hard-to-reach people living with HIV/AIDS into care.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2007
Facilitator's training curriculum (and slides) for a two day session designed to educate service providers on how to address HIV/AIDS-related stigma.
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Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and HealthAugust 2004
Cross-disciplinary training curriculum to increase knowledge and awareness of the relationship between HIV infection and substance use. Disponible en español: Un caleidoscopio de cuidado y servicios: Respondiendo a los retos del VIH y uso de drogas).
Tools and Job Aids
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2011
Methods that involve persons living with HIV/AIDS to help link other PLWH into care.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2010
Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting. For use by staff working within agencies involved with the criminal justice system, public health departments, and AIDS service organizations. Developed under SPNS initiative.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and HealthApril 2009
Toolkit for planning a peer training program for HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people living with HIV/AIDS in health care.
Reports and Best Practices
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NASTADFebruary 2018
This fact sheet outlines how Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part B programs and AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) can support access to medications and tailor related services for Black/African American men living with HIV.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2018
Resources from the SPNS initiative, Building a Medical Home for Multiply-Diagnosed HIV-positive Homeless Populations.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)July 2017
The Improving Health Outcomes: Moving Patients Along the HIV Care Continuum and Beyond series of resource and tools.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV Care, HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)June 2017
Effective models and best practices of linkage to care programs for PLWH who are leaving jail or prison and reentering society.
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SPNS Systems Linkages ProjectMarch 2017
Resources to support other programs in replicating the evidence informed interventions of the SPNS Initiative: Systems Linkages and Access to Care for Populations at High Risk of HIV Infection.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)September 2014
Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)March 2014
Compilation of SPNS grantee experiences with peer models and how they can be used in various care settings.
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National Minority AETCSeptember 2012
BE SAFE is a framework that uses culturally pluralistic content and perspectives based on these six core elements: Barriers to Care, Ethics, Sensitivity of the Provider, Assessment, Facts, and Encounters.
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Next Step and MassCAREMay 2012
Guidebook for multiple audiences that outlines steps for transitioning youth from pediatric care to adult services.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2006
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.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)January 2005Resource for programs interested in developing or expanding outreach services to identify HIV-positive youth and engage and retain them in care.
Websites
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AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)January 2018
HIV clinical training resources and and collaborative support for the AETC Program.
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Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care ContinuumJanuary 2017
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.
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Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care ContinuumJanuary 2017
Online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM.