HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Fact Sheets, March 2023.
Evidence-informed interventions that produce optimal HIV care outcomes (jail transitional care, buprenorphine, patient navigation and peer support for women of color)
One-fourth of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) clients are female. Minority women, particularly African Americans, are the most heavily impacted. Many women living with HIV disease face socioeconomic and other barriers, like intimate partner violence and responsibility for child and family care. Women who receive care from the RWHAP are far more likely to be retained in care and have viral suppression than those not receiving RWHAP services.
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Best Practices and Emerging Models
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)
- AIDS Action Foundation
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.
- IHIPProject to enhance the provision of HIV care for Latina transgender women in Los Angeles County.
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVUse of participatory arts to generate dialogue and engage individuals in receiving health care, provide a safe space to speak more freely outside the confines of the medical system, and inspire involvement in community activities.
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVHow consumer and community advisory boards acan be leveraged to inform the development and implementation of evidence based interventions designed to improve care for diverse Black women with HIV.
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVInnovative strategies adapted by agencies to deliver bundled interventions for improving health outcomes for Black women with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Center for Innovation and EngagementCollection of implementation guides on evidence-informed best practices in HIV care delivery.
- SPNS Social Media Initiative
Tools developed by demonstration sites in the SPNS Use of Social Media initiative.
- SPNS Transgender Women of Color Initiative
Innovative models for linking and retaining transgender women of color in HIV care, developed by a multi-site demonstration project.
- IHIP
Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color living with HIV.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Pilot-test of an online meeting Using Web 2.0 tools vs. a traditional in-person meeting venue with women infected or affected by HIV infection.
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)Patient navigation intervention informed and adapted from the best practice findings of a past SPNS initiative that yielded successful HIV care continuum outcomes among client participants.
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)Peer linkage and re-engagement intervention, informed and adapted from the best practice findings of a past SPNS initiative.
Resources
- University of Washington
Online clinician training platform with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, care, and key populations.
- SPNS Improving Care and Treatment Coordination Black Women with HIVExplanation of how to create a photovoice, a type of participatory action research that engages people in the process of naming, capturing, and strengthening their community through photography.
- NMAC
The purpose of the ESCALATE training program is to facilitate transformative and relational change in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs (RWHAP) and the communities they serve.
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)Series of six brief, animated videos with HIV-specific patient education tailored for women of color with HIV.
- Dissemination of Evidence Informed-Interventions Project (DEII)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.
- Howard Brown Health Center
Curriculum for nurses teaching cultural competency in the care of LGBT older adults.
- National Minority AETCGuide and promising practices that address cultural competency for specific racial/ethnic populations.
Training Modules
- IHIP
Manual to help health care providers adapt SPNS models addressing how to engage hard-to-reach people with HIV (PWH) into care within their current operations.
Webinars and Training
- IHIPWebinar series featuring HIV care innovations developed under the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau’s Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) program. Sessions share insights on how to replicate SPNS interventions.
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in)PrEP access and use remain unequal in the United States, with women overall accessing it at a fraction of the rates of men. Meanwhile, one in five new HIV cases annually occurs in women.
- 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 causes of higher trauma prevalence among People with HIV. The relationship of trauma symptoms to decreased engagement in HIV services, and best practices in trauma-informed care.
- 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.
Conference Presentations
Wayne State University
Presenters:
Evelyn Postell-Franklin
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts
Presenters:
Minu P. Mohan, Cecilia Flores-Rodríguez, Linda Sprague Martinez, Judith Scott, Alicia Downes, Angela Wangari Walter, Serena Rajabiun
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
Impact of Covid-19 protocols on recruitment for an engagement in care program for returning citizens
AIDS Foundation Chicago
Presenters:
Andrea Dakin, Nora Bouacha
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
UNC Hospitals-Infectious Diseases
Presenters:
Emily Duberman, Arianne Morrison, Christopher Hurt, Corazon Halsey, Amy Durr, Claire Farel
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
HRSA
Presenters:
Corliss Heath, Alicia Downes, Judith Scott, Letitia Burr
2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment