Innovative HIV Care Strategies for Priority Populations: Housing First and Positive Peers Interventions
Resource updated 05/15/2024
Resource updated 05/15/2024
Preliminary results from an ongoing RWHAP clinic initiative to use text messaging as a re-engagement strategy to bring lost patients back to care, which may be a more manageable and possibly equally effective re-engagement strategy when compared to phone outreach.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
The COVID-19 pandemic propelled digital tools to the forefront of healthcare. New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute Digital Health Initiative (DHI) coordinated digital health trainings to enhance practices among HIV program staff and may result in improved patient-provider communication, patient access to services and potentially health outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Enhancement of communication between Chicago HIV patients and case managers through use of smart phones and its particular value during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Positive People social platform developed to expand access to the broader community and improve health outcomes for participants.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Housing First is an effective, cost-efficient, evidence-based best practice that demonstrates improved health outcomes and care utilization for people experiencing homelessness, including people with HIV (PWH). Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative is a unique opportunity for HRSA-funded Jurisdictions to support the uptake and implementation of the Housing First model in their communities to prevent new HIV diagnoses and engage people with HIV who are outside the current system of care.
Resource updated 11/06/2023
Resource updated 11/13/2023
This toolkit provides guidance and best practices on the evaluation of social media/media (SMM) campaigns. The information is meant to serve as a starting point for EHE jurisdictions to help you decide how best to measure the success of your SMM campaigns.
Below, we provide ready-to-use- tools, concrete examples of data metrics that you can expect to receive from your campaign as well as recommended best practices for how to use as well as supplement that data to evaluate your campaign’s success.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/14/2023
Resource updated 01/17/2024
HIV clinical training resources for HRSA's AIDS Education and Training Centers Program.
Resource updated 04/17/2024
Federal guidelines for treatment, prevention and care of HIV disease, opportunistic infections, and common co-infections.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Toolkit for planning a peer training program for HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people with HIV in health care.
Resource updated 12/07/2023
Training compendium for agencies seeking to develop programs that utilize peers to help engage and retain other people with HIV in care. Also en Espanol: Componentes Esenciales para la Capacitación y Éxito de los Trabajadores Pares (Peers)
Resource updated 12/07/2023
Curriculum on how to replicate models of care developed to engage and retain hard-to-reach populations into HIV medical care. Document can also serve as a quality improvement tool.
Resource updated 03/13/2024
Clinical care guides for various populations (based upon their racial, ethnic, and gender characteristics) and specific conditions.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Guidebook for multiple audiences that outlines steps for transitioning youth from pediatric care to adult services.
Resource updated 04/06/2022
Online clinician training platform with evidence-based core competency training on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, care, and key populations.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Tools to help health care providers adapt SPNS models within their existing operations in order to better engage hard-to-reach people with HIV into care.
Resource updated 05/15/2024
Evidence-informed intervention that allows community-based case managers to connect via video chat with incarcerated clients prior to release.
Resource updated 08/29/2022