Collaborations among AETCs, Emergency Departments, and Health Jurisdictions to Identify and Treat HIV, HCV, and Syphilis

This interactive workshop will review updated data and discuss implementation challenges, facilitators, and best practices for routine screening/linkage in an emergency department with urban and rural challenges. Preliminary data from the initial two months (with more than 2,000 patients screened) include .7% HIV (including three acute infections), 7% Hepatitis C (HCV) and 5.2% syphilis.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the critical role emergency departments play in identifying and treating HIV, HCV, STIs and substance use disorders (SUDs) and ending the HIV epidemic in both urban and rural settings.
2. Discuss how AETCs and other Ryan White-funded partners can work with emergency departments and health jurisdictions to help high-risk patients link to or re-engage in high-quality HIV/HCV treatment.
3. Consider how your local AETCs, planning bodies, and others can best work with emergency departments and health jurisdictions to maximize health outcomes for the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations in your community.