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Doxycycline that is taken as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is effective in reducing the incidence of chlamydia and gonorrhea in men who have sex with men and transgender women.News Article updated on 04/11/2023
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Viviendo Valiente
Viviendo Valiente aims to reduce ethnic disparities in HIV care and outcomes by providing culturally responsive services to the Latino/a community, specifically to people of Mexican descent. It is a multi-level intervention, featuring individual-, group-, and community-level activities, that links people to HIV care, offers HIV education and health literacy in group sessions, and promotes community-level testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Viviendo Valiente had positive impacts on HIV testing, retention in care, viral suppression, and client satisfaction.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/15/2024
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Leveraging a Data to Care Approach to Cure Hepatitis C within the RWHAP
SPNS initiative aimed to link individuals co-infected with HIV and HCV to care by leveraging public health surveillance and clinical data systems. Project period: 2020-2022.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 05/15/2024
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STI Implementation Plan Released
HHS has released an implementation plan on specific actions for entities to take in preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STI).News Article updated on 06/13/2023 -
Health Centers on the Front Lines Podcast: Status Neutral
Review of concept of status neutral (access to HIV services regardless of HIV status).Resource updated 10/24/2023
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Health Centers on the Front Lines: Be the Change: Black Cisgender and Trans Women, HIV Treatment, & PrEP
Role of health centers in increasing PrEP access and use among women.Resource updated 10/18/2023
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Addressing STIs: Ask. Test. Treat. Repeat.
Nine sites implemented four evidence-based interventions, collectively known as Addressing STIs: Ask.Test.Treat.Repeat. The four intervention components are audio computer-assisted self-interview sexual history taking, patient self-collection of urogenital and extragenital site chlamydia/gonorrhea nucleic acid amplification test specimens, sexual and gender minority welcoming indicators, and provider training, with the overall goal to routinize STI screening, testing, and treatment in primary care. The interventions increased routine STI screening and testing of bacterial STIs based on reported behavioral risk.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 05/14/2024
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Enhanced Patient Navigation for Women of Color
The Enhanced Patient Navigation for Women of Color with HIV intervention uses patient navigators, who are non-medical staff in clinical settings, to reduce barriers to health care and optimize care. The intervention was effective in improving linkage to and retention in care, as well as viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/28/2024
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Innovative HIV Care Strategies for People with HIV with Co-occurring Conditions
The webinar features two interventions designed to improve linkage to and retention in care and improve health outcomes: one on integrating HIV and addiction services and one on delivery of early intervention services for persons with HIV and STI diagnoses.Resource updated 05/15/2024
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Data to Care for People Coinfected with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was one of seven health departments funded by Leveraging a Data to Care Approach to Cure Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Within the RWHAP Part F SPNS initiative implemented from 2020–2022. With the support of the Yale University School of Medicine, which served as the Technical Assistance Provider, MDHHS matched RWHAP and HIV and HCV surveillance data, calculated HCV viral clearance cascades for coinfected populations, and worked with three RWHAP clinics to generate clinic-based lists of coinfected clients and conduct outreach and linkage to HCV treatment.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 05/20/2024
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Postpartum Retention and Engagement Quality Improvement Initiative
The University of Mississippi Medical Center implemented a Postpartum Retention and Engagement Quality Improvement Initiative in 2017 to improve linkage to care, retention in care, and viral suppression among postpartum women with HIV. This intervention uses a combination of care coordination, printed materials, case management services, and improved collaboration and coordination between the Adult Special Care Clinic, which provides comprehensive HIV medical care, and a Perinatal HIV Program. The comprehensive intervention significantly improved retention in HIV care and increased viral suppression at both six and 12 months postpartum.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/14/2023
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Issue Brief: Using Participatory Art Approaches to Promote Health and Empower Client Voice
Use of participatory arts to generate dialogue and engage individuals in receiving health care and participating in community activities.Resource updated 01/08/2024
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Epidemic through a pandemic: Strategies to support Black women with HIV during COVID-19 pandemic
This poster will provide information about approaches of the Black Women First Initiative in adressing HIV epidemic through the COVID-19 pandemic. Various strategies were developed and adapted by the 12 RWHAP SPNS demonstration sites by changing their existing systems for a more culturally responsive care for Black women with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 04/23/2024
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Our WORK: Women and Infant Supportive Housing Demonstration Project
Our Women Organizing Resources and Knowledge (WORK) is supportive housing demonstration project developed to address and reduce gaps in resources for low-income women with HIV with children. Learn best practices and lessons learned through the development and implementation project.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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HIV Provider-led Reproductive Health Visits to Increase Contraception Counseling Among Persons with HIV
The percentage of people with HIV who could become pregnant and lacked designated form of contraception rose from 13 percent to 22.5 percent between April 2020-April 2021 in our Southeastern RWHAP clinic. We developed a reproductive health visit to reduce the rate of those with no contraception plan from 22.5 percent to 17 percent by July 2022.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Impact of Covid-19 protocols on recruitment for an engagement in care program for returning citizens
Exploratory study to understand recruitment challenges faced by an HIV engagement in care project for Black women, incorporating constructs from the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. The main source of recruitment barriers were protocol changes implemented to minimize COVID-19 risk.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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National HIV Curriculum 3rd Edition Launched
After extensive reviews and updates, the National HIV Curriculum 3rd Edition launched on September 1 to start a new 3-year CE accreditation period.News Article updated on 09/27/2023 -
Leveraging a Data to Care Approach to Cure HCV: Jurisdiction Perspectives
Review of the data to care project and lessons learned on HCV micro-elimination activities from the Arizona Department of Health Services.Resource updated 05/15/2024
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Innovative HIV Care Strategies for HIV/HCV Co-Infection
Review of Data to Care, an approach for leveraging existing clinical data and public health surveillance systems to identify people with HIV who are not engaged in care.Resource updated 05/15/2024
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New Training Modules on Creating an HIV/HCV Viral Clearance Cascade
Training modules are now available on how to use public health surveillance data, along with clinical data, to track efforts in getting people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C engaged in care and on effective treatment.News Article updated on 02/05/2024