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CDC has created a webpage where you can select your state and find out where to get an HIV self-test (home test) for free or reduced cost.News Article updated on 01/27/2021
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Transition HIV+ Youth from Adolescent to Adult Services: Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
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HRSA Announces Record High HIV Viral Suppression Rate
A December 2020 report released by HRSA shows that clients receiving RWHAP medical care were virally suppressed at a record level – 88.1 percent – in 2019.Blog updated 12/15/2021
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New Special Enrollment Periods for HealthCare.gov and Some State-based Marketplaces
A new Special Enrollment Period (SEP) is available to all HealthCare.gov consumers from February 15 - May 15, 2021.Blog updated 08/12/2022
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Implementing Evidence-Informed Interventions with Black MSM to Improve Access, Engagement/Reengagement, and Health Outcomes
This peer-led workshop will explore the implementation of evidence-informed interventions with black men who have sex with men (MSM) through Project CONNECT at AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, Tailored Motivational Interviewing at the University of Mississippi, and TXTXT at the SUNY-Downstate HEAT Program in Brooklyn. Attendees will learn the core elements of these interventions to improve engagement and viral suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Instituto de Liderazgo para las Personas Con VIH, Sesión 1 (101): Liderazgo Intencional
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
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Positive Love: Improving Health Outcomes of Young, Black MSM with HIV in the Deep South
The presentation will cover the efficacy of +Love, a five-pronged intervention in New Orleans, involving a dedicated case manager, therapist, peer support, ride service, and text-based alert program that tracks clients' basic needs, mood, and provides medication reminders, in improving the healthcare and treatment satisfaction of young, black men who have sex with men (MSM) with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Innovative Approaches to Increase Engagement in Mental Health Services among Youth with HIV
This presentation will describe two innovative mental health quality improvement initiatives for youth. The presentation will focus on the specifics of delivering brief mental health in-clinic interventions and the development and implementation of youth peer support groups within the pediatric HIV program in the ‘hot spot' of the national HIV epidemic, Washington, D.C.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Utilizing the Community to Reach the Community: Ending the Epidemic with Community Health Workers
The road to ending the epidemic must be paved with community engagement. Community health care workers (CHWs) represent the voice of the community and play a vital role in linkage and retention to care. DC Health piloted three innovative care models to strategically ensure the community's voice is permanently embedded in HIV services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Developing Systems to Collect, Report, & Use Data to Optimize CHW Initiatives in the South (16076)
Through the Southern Initiative, CAI supported four Part A agencies in the South in integrating a Community Health Worker (CHW) model to address disparities in HIV outcomes. The session will describe the development of systems to collect, report, and use real-time data to track implementation progress and client outcomes. Results reveal promising client outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Linkage Navigation Program Increasing Linkage to Care
Linkage Navigation Program provides an immediate connection to same-day medical care and medical case management services, promoting timely linkage to care and services, and tailored individualized care operationalizing initiatives such as Test N Treat and Test N PrEP with positive health outcomes for Ryan White clients.
Learning Objectives
- Increase linkage to care.
- Facilitate same-day linkage to medical care and services.
- Improve access, engagement and health outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Health Information Exchange and Peer Navigation: A Model to Engage Vulnerable Populations
Presenters will describe a New York City collaborative pilot project utilizing Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) to locate lost-to-care people with HIV. Lost-to-care encounter alerts provide community-based organizations with actionable, real-time data to supplement their ‘classic' care engagement efforts. The model offers a potentially scalable, cost-effective strategy for patient re-engagement efforts on a population level.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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The Basics of Medicare for Ryan White Program Clients
Medicare eligibility and enrollment for RWHAP clients, what the different Medicare parts cover, dual eligibility, and Medicare prescription drug coverage for people with HIV.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Reducing Barriers to Care for People with HIV with Visible and Invisible Disabilities
Using data to identify disability-related needs of RWHAP provider agencies and clients to assess outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum, the New York HIV Planning Council developed with recipient support recommendations to better accommodate people with HIV with disabilities living in the New York EMA to improve service delivery, engagement, and viral suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Evaluating the Impact of the RWHAP: From Cost-Effectiveness to Clinical Care
This workshop will present findings from three recently completed HRSA/HAB-sponsored studies that evaluated the impact of the RWHAP, specifically regarding its cost-effectiveness, models of clinical care, and factors associated with viral suppression.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the cost-effectiveness of the RWHAP.
- Describe the impact of different clinical care models on HIV clinical outcomes.
- Describe factors associated with RWHAP clients reaching and/or maintaining viral suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Peer-Led Advocacy for Quality Initiative in Portland
This presentation focuses on peer-based training for engaging consumer voices in HIV providers' quality improvement efforts. Community-based, peer-led efforts impact HIV care program effectiveness. Peer-led training concentrating on client advocacy and involvement in quality improvement is another method for promoting intentional collaboration between HIV service programs and people with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Implementing Evidence-Informed Interventions with Transgender Women to Improve Access, Engagement, and Health Outcomes
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
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Community Health Workers Improve Viral Load Suppression in Non-Treatment Adherent Populations to End the Epidemic
Community Health Workers (CHWs) were added to the care team to work with clients with poor treatment adherence and not viral load suppression (VLS). Clients benefited from CHW services that contributed to VLS in over 50% of the clients assigned to them. CHWs are vital in ending the epidemic in challenging client populations
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Getting Ready for Open Enrollment: Maximizing Enrollment Capacity and Partnerships
The Marketplace Open Enrollment period lasts only six weeks in most states, and RWHAP programs face challenges in ensuring eligible clients are enrolled or renew their coverage. Participants will gain new strategies for creating effective enrollment partnerships as well as how to prepare staff, partners, and clients for Open Enrollment.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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From Stagnation to Celebration: An Overview of a Successful Community-Based Dental Partnership Program
This session is an overview of a Part F dental program's two-year journey to increase access to oral healthcare for people with HIV. The number of clients served, which was stagnant for several years, increased by 126% over the two-year initiative through increased collaboration and integration, dental case management, and innovative ways to increase capacity.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023