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Curriculum updated on 09/01/2013
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Creating a Jail Linkage Program: Training Manual
Lessons learned from the SPNS Enhancing Linkages to HIV Primary Care & Services in Jail Settings Initiative.Resource updated 08/29/2022
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CAREWare File Downloads and Uploads
Instructions for downloading files for import into CAREWareResource updated 09/19/2023
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Sample Job Descriptions
Sample Ryan White agency job descriptions for agencies looking for a jump start on writing position postings.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
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The Costs and Effects of Outreach Strategies that Engage and Retain People with HIV/AIDS in Primary Care
Examination of costs and outcomes associated with different types of outreach encounters to bring individuals living with HIV/AIDS into care, as conducted under a SPNS Outreach Initiative examining innovations in HIV/AIDS care.
Resource updated 09/20/2021
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The Use of Peer Workers in Special Projects of National Significance Initiatives, 1993 – 2009
Compilation of SPNS grantee experiences with peer models and how they can be used in various care settings.
Resource updated 01/31/2023
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What's Going on @ SPNS: CyberSPNS Bulletin
This is a periodic newsletter of events with the Ryan White Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) program. They are administered by HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.Resource updated 10/28/2020
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Women of Color: Enhancing Access
Implementation guide for HIV providers on addressing the unique needs of women of color living with HIV.
Resource updated 05/15/2024
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Best Practices for HIV Interventions in Jails: Pocket Guide
This guide is intended for those seeking to strengthen connections between community and jail health care systems, including improving the continuity of care for recently incarcerated HIV-positive individuals.Resource updated 05/16/2024
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Engaging and Retaining People Living with HIV/AIDS in Oral Health Care: Pocket Guide
Pocket guide for primary care providers and oral health care teams working to improve efforts and outcomes regarding engagement and retention in oral health care for people with HIV.Resource updated 11/06/2023
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Using CAREWare for ADR Reporting
In this webinar, presenters from jProg (the CAREWare software developers) will share tips and best practices for using CAREWare for ADR reporting.Resource updated 04/02/2024
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ED Alert
The goals of the Emergency Department and Hospital-Based Data Exchange for Real-Time Data to Care (ED Alert) intervention are to reengage people with HIV in care and to improve viral suppression rates. This is achieved using a real-time data exchange system that connects clients presenting to the emergency department with health department linkage specialists. ED Alert increased viral load testing and viral suppression over six months following a provider visit in the post-intervention period.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 03/18/2024
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YGetIt? Program
The YGetIt? Program engaged youth and young adults with HIV in care through three components: a health management mobile application (GET!), Peer Engagement Educator Professionals (PEEPs), and a graphic serial (Tested). Tested received over 200,000 views, and viral suppression rates among YGetIt? participants increased from 79% to 86% over the course of the program.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 03/18/2024
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Coordination of Supportive Employment and Housing Services
The intervention integrated supportive employment services, housing services, and HIV care for clients receiving case management services and with unmet housing and employment needs. Evaluation of the program showed improvements in employment rates, participant confidence in being able to hold onto a job, household median income, participants’ living situations, and self-perception of homelessness status.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/29/2024
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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.Resource updated 05/15/2024
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Rapid ART Start Protocol
The Rapid ART Start Protocol focuses on helping veterans with a new HIV diagnosis access ART and comprehensive treatment as soon as possible. A retrospective cohort study showed positive outcomes, including decreases in the time to first appointment, the time to ART initiation, and the time to reach viral suppression. In addition, patients receiving the intervention were more likely to reach viral suppression compared to patients seen pre-intervention at the same clinic.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 06/21/2024
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Improving Reengagement in Care: A Community Health Worker Model
In 2021, the City of New Orleans employed five CHWs to work with RWHAP Part A-funded agencies on reengaging eligible clients back into care. From February 2021 through April 2022, CHWs attempted to contact 1,215 clients disconnected from care; 207 of these attended a primary care appointment and re-entered care, a 17% success rate at reengaging clients back into care.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 07/02/2024
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The Brandy Martell Project
The Brandy Martell Project aimed to engage adult transgender women of color in HIV care and increase retention in care by offering patient navigation services, workshop programming, and legal support. Evaluation results showed The Brandy Martell Project had a significantly positive effect on ART prescription for clients.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 07/02/2024
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CoRECT
CoRECT was a data to care project to identify and reengage people with HIV who were newly out of care. It included a clinic and health department data reconciliation process to identify missed laboratory results or appointments and create the out-of-care list, case discussions via telephone to review the combined list, and field epidemiologist outreach to assist clients with making appointments, securing transportation, and arranging referrals. The intervention employed strengths-based case management techniques and motivational interviewing to contact identified people within 30 days, reengage them in care, and reduce time to viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 03/19/2024
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OPT-In For Life
OPT-In For Life is a social media-based intervention that promotes advancement along the HIV care continuum for young adults (ages 18 to 34) with HIV. During the 18-month intervention, OPT-In For Life used multiple social media platforms and a mobile application to provide HIV-related and positive lifestyle resources. Young adults enrolled in OPT-in For Life demonstrated improved retention in HIV care and higher rates of viral suppression after participation.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 03/20/2024