Words Matter: The Power of Language to Strengthen Services for HIV and Substance Use Disorder
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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
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.
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Over the past two years, the HIV workforce was challenged to not only maintain services but to rapidly address COVID-19. This case example of the AETC response, demonstrates Northeast/Caribbean AETC’s efforts to rapidly bring needed expertise and resources directly to community providers serving highly impacted communities.
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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.
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Description of a PrEP course's development, using online microlearning modules that can be completed in 10-15 minutes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 12/19/2023
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.
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This presentation will provide a brief overview of the New England AETC practice transformation project and describe improvements in HIV service delivery and patient outcomes over the past five years at seven clinic sites located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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Availability of free, point-of-care teleconsultation for clinicians, including those working with incarcerated individuals, as a tool for expanding access to expert HIV care for these communities.
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Oral health providers rely on continuing education to improve HIV care and services. This session describes how the Arizona AETC partnered with the Los Angeles Area AETC and the UCLA School of Dentistry to assess and respond to special training and technical assistance needs of HIV providers during COVID-19.
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The AETC ACCESS and IPE programs are designed to engage pre-novice to expert healthcare professionals across disciplines into HIV care and build their capacity for HIV treatment of high need, medically underserved, minority populations. This poster highlights the Northeast/Caribbean AETC’s impact on expanding the HIV workforce through these programs.
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NECA AETC has expanded training and TA to address diverse learners and asynchronous educational needs with innovative technology, including the Rise platform, podcasting, mobile apps for clinical guides, MIRO, and Airtable. This presentation will include live demonstrations and interactive activities, highlighting flexible modalities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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The Yale AIDS program developed a three-hour HIV ambulatory workshop for graduate medical education programs. This interactive curriculum showed that it improved the knowledge, skills and attitude of trainees in HIV testing, management, and PrEP. This curriculum has the potential to be dessiminated to other residency programs.
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Described is the implementation of a virtual clinical preceptorship protocol piloted at a RWHAP funded clinic in San Antonio, TX by the local AIDS Education Training Center (AETC) program to allow health care professionals to virtually learn about clinical HIV management despite pandemic restrictions.
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Joining forces to End the HIV epidemic, the Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center worked across our diverse region to increase access to HIV care and prevention through a community-driven approach. Regional partners throughout our Region II jurisdiction collaborated to strengthen HIV testing, PrEP, viral suppression, and structural competency.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
The U.S. opioid epidemic has significant impact on rates of overdose deaths among people with HIV. The aim of the project was to leverage the PDSA methodology to enhance a population-based, health information technology, intervention to facilitate the identification and panel management of high-risk clients with opioid use disorder.
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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.
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Discussion of ways to engage AETCs in HIV outbreak response activities and lessons learned from two health departments responding to HIV outbreaks.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023