Utilizing Texting and Social Media Communication to Engage Patients in Routine Medical Care and Financial Assistance Programs
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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.
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Become familiar with tools and resources to help identify and reduce viral suppression disparities among key populations living with HIV. This session showcases the activities undertaken by the Ryan White Wellness Center in Charleston, South Carolina, that helped eliminate viral suppression disparities among its young men of color who have sex with men.
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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.
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Determining effective communication strategies for people with HIV based on young adults (18-35), older adults (36+), and provider's perspective, can help improve engagement in care and health education through a convergent mixed-methods approach.
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This session will give information on the RWHAP SPNS Social Media Initiative (SMI), which used social media and digital technology to improve HIV outcomes for young people. It will provide cross-site outcomes from 10 demonstration sites. Three sites will discuss demonstration models. Resources for replicating the intervention models will be presented.
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Undetectable=Untransmittable: individuals who maintain viral suppression don't transmit HIV to their sexual partners. Yet some providers are uncomfortable discussing the implications of viral suppression in clinical encounters. This workshop will explore approaches to reduce provider discomfort in discussing U=U and present strategies to convey this message.
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This presentation assesses social determinants that affect the HIV continuum of care. Establish patterns at the economic, demographic, and sociocultural factors that may fragment or, in a worst-case scenario, interrupt access to HIV testing, biomedical prevention, follow-up to a positive diagnosis, and adherence to treatment.
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This presentation will provide an overview of the potential role of express STI services in HIV prevention and care and improving the clinic efficiency of RWHAP clinics and health centers by developing fast tracks for asymptomatic patients requiring STI testing.
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Prism Health North Texas will share the challenges and successes of adapting Ryan White case management tools and strategies to a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) program for behavioral intervention. Panelists will detail how they took lessons learned from case management to HIV prevention to become status neutral.
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Preventing HIV with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a pillar of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. This session will explore PrEP implementation resources for health centers developed by the National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute and prepare participants to use and adapt them to their organizations.
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In this presentation, you will learn about PositiveLinks, a smartphone-based platform designed to support clients in living well with HIV. Using the example of PositiveLinks, presenters will share best practices for stakeholder engagement and implementation tools to support the expansion of mobile health (mHealth) technologies in RWHAP.
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Research shows that African American students live with HIV more commonly than their primarily Caucasian counterparts. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) educate millions of learners, positioning these entities to enact greater strategies to counter HIV acquisition and spread. This workshop describes an innovative partnership to address such factors at HBCUs.
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The Implementation of Evidence-Informed Behavioral Health Models to Improve HIV Health Outcomes for the BMSM Initiative seeks to engage, link, and retain black men who have sex with men in HIV medical care, behavioral health care, and supportive services. This session will describe the use of the Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) framework to evaluate the initiative.
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This presentation discusses the limitations of using evidence-based and evidence-informed parameters when identifying innovative approaches to engage and retain people with HIV in care. Lessons learned will be shared along with strategies on how to address equity gaps in the identification of innovative approaches.
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Three sites in the Special Projects of National Significance Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (BMSM) Initiative have developed and implemented innovative technology innovations to engage BMSM in care. These include apps, telemedicine, social media, and texting services that meet clients where they are and provide access to services. This presentation will describe product selection and early implementation experiences.
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Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023