Women

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

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 HIV
    Explanation 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 AETC
    Guide and promising practices that address cultural competency for specific racial/ethnic populations.

Training Modules

Webinars and Training

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
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

Technical Assistance

  • Platform for RWHAP Part D recipients to increase the delivery of care innovations; increase the skills of staffing working with women, infant, children and youth; and support partner collaboration for dissemination of best practices.
  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of bundled evidence–informed interventions for Black women with HIV. Project period: 2020-2024.
  • TA/training for RWHAP agencies to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS care they provide. Project period: 2020-2024.

  • Clinician consultation on HCV management, HIV management, perinatal HIV/AIDS, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), post-exposure prophylaxis, substance use. Project period: 2016-2025.

  • ELEVATE will prepare people with HIV to meaningfully engage and take on leadership roles in planning bodies, advocacy actions, and the HIV workforce. Project period: 2020-2024.

  • The NHC provides ongoing, up-to-date information needed to meet the core competency knowledge for HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and ongoing treatment and care to healthcare providers in the United States. Project period: 2020-2022.
  • Interactive data tool to visualize the reach, impact, and outcomes of the RWHAP. HRSA offers office hours and webinars to help use the tool.
  • Initiative documenting best practice strategies and interventions that have been shown to improve HIV outcomes in a "real world" setting and can be replicated by other programs. Project period: 2021-2024.