Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.
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
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)
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.
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)
Preliminary data and lessons learned from the pre-implementation and early-implementation phases of initiatives featured in the DEII project (buprenorphine, women of color, peer support, jail transitional care).
- National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
Review of research on the impact of unstable/lack of housing on HIV care outcomes.
- National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
Review of syringe access service delivery, principles of harm reduction, and models of how programs at community-based organizations have been successful.
- National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
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).
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Resources on implementing jail linkage programs and assisting organizations in expanding their current jail work.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Facilitator's training curriculum and slides on educating service providers about HIV/AIDS-related stigma. There are five modules with participant training exercises.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
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).
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.
- ACE TA Center
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- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Methods that involve persons with HIV to help link others into care.
- Yale University School of Medicine
Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting.
- 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.
Reports and Best Practices
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)
Evidence-informed interventions that produce optimal HIV care outcomes (jail transitional care, buprenorphine, patient navigation and peer support for women of color)
- SPNS Latino Access Initiative, UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Monographs describing interventions for the engagement and retention of Latinos in HIV care.
- SPNS Social Media Initiative
Resources (monographs, implementation manuals, mobile apps and text messaging) from ten demonstration sites that participated in Use of Social Media to Improve Engagement, Retention, and Health Outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
SPNS innovative and replicable HIV service delivery models using HIV+ peers.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Compilation of SPNS grantee experiences with peer models and how they can be used in various care settings.
- National Minority AETC
BE SAFE is a framework that uses culturally pluralistic content and perspectives based on the following six core elements:
- Next Step and Mass CARE
Guidebook for multiple audiences that outlines steps for transitioning youth from pediatric care to adult services.
- 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.
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM.