Retaining in 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.

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

P4C was a national project aimed at expanding provision of HIV testing, prevention, care and treatment in health centers serving communities highly impacted by HIV; building sustainable partnerships between health centers and their state health department; and improving health outc

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

Online clinician training platform with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, care, and key populations.

Discussion of how two SPNS sites supported Latino clients of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent move along the HIV care continuum. Includes focus on MSM as well as persons with substance use challenges.

Discussion of two SPNS projects that effectively engaged Latinos of Mexican descent (with focus on MSM) in HIV testing and linkage to care.

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

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 (buprenorphine, women of color, peer support, jail transitional care).

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.

Overview of E2i and its goal to identify and provide support for the implementation of evidence-informed interventions to reduce HIV-related health disparities and improve health outcomes.

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

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.

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.

Resources to assist Ryan White and other HIV clinics to integrate buprenorphine programs within primary care settings.

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).

Esta es una serie de seis videos animados breves que brinda educación específica sobre el VIH para pacientes y está destinada especialmente a mujeres de color que viven con el VIH.

Aprè kliyan yo fin enskri nan asirans sante, li enpòtan pou asire yo kenbe pwoteksyon yo an pandan tout ane a.

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.

Review of the basics of trauma and modules on trauma-informed approaches in the delivery of HIV care.

Guide to best practices for enhancing services to youth with HIV to better outcomes in both retention and viral load suppression. 

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

Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.

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

Training compendium for agencies seeking to develop programs that utilize peers to help engage and retain other people with HIV in care. Also en Espanol: Componentes Esenciales para la Capacitación y Éxito de los Trabajadores Pares (Peers)

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

Client needs have been complicated and compounded by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Agencies have had to reassess how they operate in a different health care environment that they had not previously encountered, requiring additional creativity.

Evidence-informed interventions that produce optimal HIV care outcomes (jail transitional care, buprenorphine, patient navigation and peer support for women of color)

Interventions tested and implemented by participating agencies of the end+disparities ECHO Collaborative 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 Use of Social Media to Improve Engagement, Retention, and Health Outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum.

Review of an intervention focused on client re-engagement in HIV care.

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.

SPNS 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.

Examination of costs and outcomes associated with different types of outreach encounters to bring individuals living with HIV/AIDS into care, as conducted under a SPNS Outreach Initiative examining innovations in HIV/AIDS care.

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 (e.g., library of tools by topic and populations, calendar of events, directory of AETCs, clinician consultation resources).

Online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM.