Part D - Women, Infants, Children, Youth

Part D of HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) provides outpatient family-centered care for women, infants, children, and youth with HIV/AIDS. Medical care and support services are the same as provided by other Ryan White agencies, with the difference being attention to specific needs of women and their families.

Questions about Part D? Email [email protected].

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Best Practices

  • Moving on Positively: A Guide for Youth, Caregivers and Providers
    Next Step and Mass CARE

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

  • Community Health Workers: Improving Linkage and Retention in HIV Care
    Best Practices Compilation
    Ten organizations across the U.S. integrated Community Health Workers (CHWs) into their multidisciplinary care teams. Enrolled clients had statistically significant improvements in viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy prescription, and appointment attendance after six months in the program.
  • Navigator Case Management for People Leaving Jail
    Best Practices Compilation
    The Navigator Case Management intervention helps people with HIV who are incarcerated and are leaving to return to the community. The intervention uses harm reduction, case management, and motivational interviewing techniques to promote healthy behaviors. Enhanced case management including peer support and connection to other needed services both immediately before and after release supports increased linkage to and retention in HIV care for people transitioning to the community from jail.
  • PACT Food Assistance Program
    Best Practices Compilation
    The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Center for Care of Infectious Diseases, Pittsburgh Area Center for Treatment (PACT) began implementing the Food Assistance Program in August 2017 to serve as a supplemental resource for people with HIV receiving care who experience food insecurity. The program helps bridge gaps in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and monthly food costs while promoting access to healthy foods and retention in HIV care.
  • Peer Engagement to Improve Linkage to Care and Retention in Care for Women and Youth
    Best Practices Compilation
    University Health uses peers and patient navigators to provide support, reduce barriers, and improve linkage and retention to care for women and youth with HIV. Two peers with lived experience were hired as Outreach Specialists to spearhead the program, encourage medication adherence and use of services, and provide mentoring. The intervention was successful in moderately improving the numbers of clients linked to care, retained in care, and virally suppressed.
  • Postpartum Retention and Engagement Quality Improvement Initiative
    Best Practices Compilation
    The 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.
  • Project ACCEPT
    Best Practices Compilation
    Project ACCEPT is designed to improve engagement and retention in medical care for youth ages 16 to 24 years with newly diagnosed HIV. The educational and skill-building intervention was deployed at four demonstration sites and increased rates of medication use and appointment adherence in comparison to a control group. Although originally developed for cisgender youth, Project ACCEPT may be adapted for gender-diverse people.

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Conference Presentations

Multilevel Facilitators and Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening in Women Living with HIV: A Qualitative Study
National Cancer Institute
Presenters:
Jennifer McGee-Avila, Michelle Doose, Jacinta Elijah, Erica Williams, Heidi Haiken, Ellen Dufficy, Peijia Zha, Jennifer Tsui
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Division of Community HIV/AIDS Programs: RWC 2022 Business Day Meeting
HRSA HAB Division of Community HIV/AIDS Programs (DCHAP)
Presenters:
CAPT Mahyar Mofidi, DMD, PhD; Stephanie Yun, MPH, CHES; and others
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
RWHAP Part D: Introduction to the Part D Basic Training Program
HRSA DCHAP
Presenters:
Lillian Bell
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
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