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.
A core value of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is engagement of people with HIV in their care and in their community's work to address the epidemic. This might include:
- Serving as members and leaders of planning bodies. See also our Planning resources.
- Participating in community advisory boards to provide feedback to clinics on services and their design.
- Serving as peer workers to other persons with HIV to engage and retain them in care.
- Serving as volunteers and paid staff members in HIV agencies.
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Guidelines and Manuals
- Abt Associates
Webinars and Training
- Boston University School of Public Health
Resources to help clinics integrate community health workers (CHW) into an HIV multidisciplinary team model.
- IHAP TA CenterStrategies for ongoing consumer and stakeholder engagement in the integrated prevention and care planning, implementation, and monitoring processes.
- 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.
- Boston Public Health Commission
Video to recruit new members for the Ryan White Part A Planning Council, featuring consumer voices.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
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.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
An orientation to Ryan White Planning Councils for prospective new members. Una introducción a los consejos de planificación para miembros recientes.
Tools and Job Aids
- Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation (CQII)
Experience-based co-design (EBCD) as a quality improvement methodology can build capacity among your program staff and persons with HIV (PWH) to understand and improve the experience of HIV care and services, by both those who provide care and receive care.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), NASTAD
Application and companion document on how to apply for any pharmaceutical assistance program (PAP) offered by pharmaceutical companies.
- ACE TA Center
Hacer que los clientes participen de conversaciones sobre seguros médicos puede ser un desafío.
- In It Together
Health literacy training initiative to help health professionals incorporate health literacy approaches into their services.
- Planning CHATT
El Manual fue diseñado para ayudar a los miembros del consejo de planificación del Programa Ryan White de VIH/SIDA Parte A, a entender las labores y el funcionamiento de los consejos de planificación.
- Planning CHATT
Review of the roles and functioning of Ryan White Part A planning councils.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Methods that involve persons with HIV to help link others into care.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Steps for conducting a town hall meeting as part of a community needs assessment/planning process.
- New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
Guide on ways an organization can involve consumers in quality improvment.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Materials to help programs develop strategies to employ Ryan White consumers/people with HIV.
- AIDS Alliance for Children Youth and Families
Workbook on setting up and operating a consumer advisory board (CAB).
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Recruitment and retention strategies that planning groups can use to support membership.
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)
- Arizona HIV Statewide Advisory Group
Infographic synthesising the goals and objectives of the Arizona Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Compilation of SPNS grantee experiences with peer models and how they can be used in various care settings.
- Next Step and Mass CARE
Guidebook for multiple audiences that outlines steps for transitioning youth from pediatric care to adult services.
Websites
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Federal agency that administers the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) and the Global HIV/AIDS Program and plays a critical role in helping diagnose, treat, prevent, and respond as part of the "Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America" initiative.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Portal for HIV/AIDS information from the U.S. federal government, including the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative.
- 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.
- AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC)
Collaborative of AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) to enhance HIV care across the U.S.-Mexico border.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Federal resources on discrimination and health care privacy protections.
- HIV.GOV
Enlace principal a recursos clave de sitios del gobierno federal de los EE.UU. en español relacionados con el VIH/SIDA.
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum
Online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM.