Peer Linkage and Re-engagement of Women of Color with HIV
Resource updated 06/06/2024
Resource updated 06/06/2024
UCLA Family AIDS Network, a Ryan White Part D recipient, will present its new Women and HIV bilingual education video series covering the topics of mental health and pregnancy. The videos are an educational tool and innovative way organizations can encourage authentic, genuine, and holistic conversations between consumers and providers.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This workshop will describe how the Los Angeles Area AETC developed an inter-professional practice (IPP) program with the Charles Drew NP program, USC’s School of Pharmacy, UCLA’s School of Medicine, and the West LA’s psychiatric residency program -- along with five Ryan White clinics -- to help develop the next generation of HIV teams.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
La sesión 1 del Instituto de Liderazgo se centrará en el liderazgo de las personas con VIH y cubrirá el rol de la participación significativa de las personas con VIH a través de la historia del programa Ryan White. Explorará el liderazgo culturalmente sensible, el liderazgo transformacional y la humildad cultural. Los facilitadores demostrarán las habilidades de liderazgo formales e informales. Las personas con VIH están invitadas a participar.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
In 2015, only 72% of pregnant women with HIV followed at the Grady Ponce de Leon Center returned for postpartum care within a three-month period of time. This workshop will describe actions taken to increase the number of women who kept their postpartum (fourth trimester) and ID appointments.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
University of Mississippi Medical Center utilized known barriers to care for postpartum women with HIV and leveraged that information to schedule individualized interactions with pregnant and postpartum women with HIV. This low-cost, low-effort initiative resulted in statistically significant improvements in both retention in care and viral suppression rates in postpartum women with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This sub-study compared viral suppression between SPNS participants and non-participants at the Meharry site. The SPNS study enrolled women of color newly who were recently diagnosed with HIV or lost to care. There was no statistically significant difference in viral suppression after controlling for demographic and clinical factors.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will explain how Texas collects gender identity data for people with HIV and will examine disparities in care and health outcomes for transgender Texans living with HIV with an additional focus on the Latinx and black communities in order to understand how to better meet the needs of transgender people with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Learn about strategies for improving access to oral healthcare through better integration with primary care. Presenters will share information on the seven components of integration, ranging from risk assessments to data sharing across settings. This session will introduce the components of integration and highlight available resources for integrative care.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This presentation will review how the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Chronic Disease Division collaborated with the HIV/STI division and local AIDS service organizations to develop innovative, client-centered tobacco dependence treatment programs to address the high tobacco use rates among people with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
After childbirth, women with HIV are more likely to fall out of care, leading to higher morbidity, risk of transmitting HIV to intimate partners, and subsequent pregnancies. Psychiatric disorders and other barriers are contributors to loss of follow-up. We present the successes and opportunities to improve health outcomes for postpartum women with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Transgender women, especially those of color, have substantially lower rates of viral suppression than people with HIV in general. The New York City HIV Planning Council collaborated with the community to develop guiding recommendations that drove the development of the jurisdiction's first psycho-social service directive specifically for people of transgender, intersex, non-binary, and/or non-conforming experience.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This workshop will explore the implementation of peer-led, evidence-informed interventions for transgender women with HIV. The programs are Healthy Divas, and Transgender Women Engagement and Entry to Care Project (T.W.E.E.T.). Attendees will learn the core elements of these interventions and how they improve engagement in care, treatment adherence, and viral suppression in Alabama and Michigan.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Presenters will describe a medical community collaboration to resolve care gaps and improve patient health outcomes through the co-location of health home care management by a community-based organization (CBO) within medical clinics. Panel members will share successes and challenges of implementation of the project and integrating a CBO care team into a medical clinic.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Prior analyses among transgender women receiving Ryan White Part A services in New York City have found evidence of disparities in HIV outcomes. This presentation will focus on viral suppression and the New York Eligible Metropolitan Area’s efforts to address care continuum outcome disparities affecting clients of transgender experience.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource updated 03/15/2023
Resource updated 01/31/2024
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This report highlights projects found to offer highly effective (and replicable) approaches to integrating buprenorphine-based medication-assisted treatment into HIV/AIDS primary care. Chapters outline the processes programs need to put in place, including meeting DATA 2000 regulatory requirements, achieving institutional buy-in, implementing staff training requirements, and evaluating processes and outcomes.
Resource updated 04/02/2024
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023