Linking to Care

Curriculum of educational sessions to promote client engagement and retention in HIV care in order to increase overall rates of viral suppression, based on evidence informed practices, including motivational interviewing, to address identified gaps in care.

Online training platform providing U.S. health care staff with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and care.

Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.

Tools on ways to expand/replicate innovative models of oral health care for people with HIV.

Discussion of how two SPNS sites supported Latino clients of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent move along the HIV care continuum.

Discussion of two SPNS projects that effectively engaged Latinos of Mexican descent in HIV testing and linkage to care.

Review of Practice Transformation/Transformative Models (PTMs) to improve delivery of HIV services.

Presentation of an intervention to expand HIV workforce capacity through the use of strategic community-based partnerships.

Highlight of two programs that successfully engaged in HIV care clients who are hard-to-reach and serve via delivery of HIV primary care, behavioral health, and housing.

Preliminary data and lessons learned from the pre-implementation and early-implementation phases of initiatives featured in the DEII project.

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.

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.

Review of how a community-based organization and an FQHC successfully engaged and retained transgender women of color in HIV care.

Approaches to effectively engaging and retaining transgender women of color in HIV care.

Review of research on the impact of unstable/lack of housing on HIV care outcomes.

Review of syringe access service delivery, principles of harm reduction, and models of how programs at community-based organizations have been successful.

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).

Resources on implementing jail linkage programs and assisting organizations in expanding their current jail work.

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.

Facilitator's training curriculum and slides on educating service providers about HIV/AIDS-related stigma. There are five modules with participant training exercises. 

Cross-disciplinary training curriculum to increase knowledge and awareness of the relationship between HIV infection and substance use. Also available in Spanish (Version en español).

Afich pou ede kliyan yo konprann sa yo sa yo bezwen pou kenbe pwoteksyon asirans yo pandan tout ane a. Chak afich montre yon tarif ak yon imaj diferan epi yo te kreye yo pou yo enprime an koulè.

Methods that involve persons with HIV to help link others into care.

Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting.

This is a Toolkit for planning a peer training program for HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people with HIV in health care. 

Resources from innovative project to field test four evidence-informed Care And Treatment Interventions (CATI) packages--interventions that produce optimal HIV care outcomes. 

Interventions tested and implemented by participating agencies of the end+disparities ECHO Collaborative, a national quality improvement initiative to address HIV disparities among Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funded grant recipients.

Monographs describing interventions for the engagement and retention of Latinos in HIV care.

Intervention monographs and implementation manuals from demonstration sites participating in the SPNS project, Use of Social Media to Improve Engagement, Retention, and Health Outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum.

Ideas for RWHAP Part B/ADAPs to support access to medications and tailor related services for Black/African American men living with HIV. 

Insights from a HRSA SPNS initiative on care coordinator/patient navigation interventions for vulnerable populations.

Insights on ways that HIV care programs have improved health outcomes along the HIV care continuum.

Insights from a multi-state demonstration and evaluation of innovative models for linkages to and retention in HIV care.

The Minority AIDS Initiative/SPNS Retention and Re-Engagement in HIV Care Project developed innovative and replicable HIV service delivery models using HIV+ peers.

Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color living with HIV.

Compilation of SPNS grantee experiences with peer models and how they can be used in various care settings.

BE SAFE is a framework that uses culturally pluralistic content and perspectives based on the following six core elements:

Guidebook for multiple audiences that outlines steps for transitioning youth from pediatric care to adult services.

Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico. 

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.  

Resource for programs interested in developing or expanding outreach services to identify HIV-positive youth and engage and retain them in care.

HIV clinical training resources for the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program, funded by HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. 

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.

Online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM.