HIV Care Coordination Specialists - an Approach to Retain Self-Sufficient Clients at Risk of Disengaging in Care
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New HIV infections continue to rise among members of the Latinx community, especially youth. To reverse this increasing trend, it is important to recognize the social, economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers that hinder the prevention and treatment efforts for HIV when developing an outreach strategy.
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The Women Informational Network (WIN) micro-grant initiative supports grassroots, women-led, community-based organizations and leaders conducting innovative approaches that reduce isolation and stigma for women of color with HIV, with a special emphasis placed on women with HIV living in rural areas and ‘resource deserts’ not connected to care.
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In this workshop, participants will gain resources and strategies for implementing community engagement programs, including training community health workers to be part of a health care team to enhance viral suppression and management of HIV in rural populations.
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Community Health Worker (CHW) models are a strategy to reduce inequities in HIV. This presentation will describe an evaluation of 397 CHW program participants, with findings on the impact on barriers to care and clinical outcomes, as well as the relationship among unmet needs, CHW encounters, and clinical outcomes.
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Project Consumer Access and Adherence to Care for HIV (CAATCH) is a Part D clinical quality initiative. Utilizing peers as partners, a series of health education sessions are delivered to make improvements on the HIV care continuum in engagement and viral suppression.
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Alliance for Positive Change, a New York City community-based organization, will present its pioneering peer training and workforce development initiatives that create opportunities for low-income New Yorkers with shared, lived experiences to re-enter the workforce. Additionally, presenters will provide an overview of the proven health and psychosocial benefits of returning to work for people with HIV.
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Living with substance use disorder can compromise prevention interventions, diagnosis of HIV, engagement and retention in care, and viral suppression. Clinical coordinators serve an essential, unduplicated role in the provision of medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in HIV primary care. This presentation will share lessons learned to support the replication of MAT programs, including the clinical coordinator role, within your setting.
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An overview will be provided on the prevention of opioid use disorders in Ryan White clinics and AIDS service organizations. Information will be provided on how to launch the Take Back, Educate, and Inundate initiative to encourage the launch of innovative approaches to reducing opioid use and misuse with people with HIV.
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Using an innovative Stakeholder Real-Time Delphi approach, 805 stakeholders (e.g., people with HIV, HIV service organization staff, HIV planning council representatives) from across the United States interactively assessed the prevalence rate and individual-level negative impacts of five substance abuse disorders (SUDs), which were combined to estimate the population-level negative impact of each SUD.
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The initiation of individualized support groups for people with HIV has shown significant improvements in viral load suppression rates for participants. Baseline viral suppression rates measured at group enrollment were 35.5% (n=31). Viral suppression rates for the end of the year showed 100% of participants being suppressed (n=31).
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This peer-led workshop will include skill-building interactive sessions about two evidence-informed interventions that address opioid use disorders among people with HIV, Buprenorphine Treatment and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment.
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Substance abuse, interpersonal violence, depression, and HIV are part of overlapping and intersecting epidemics which adversely affect the prognosis and intensify the burden of each. This session will review existing literature on this syndemic, lessons learned in initial implementation of a screening and linkage program, and implications for practice.
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This presentation will review how the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Chronic Disease Division collaborated with the HIV/STI division and local AIDS service organizations to develop innovative, client-centered tobacco dependence treatment programs to address the high tobacco use rates among people with HIV.
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This session will use stories to describe a small 'village,' a model to assist in, prevent relapse of, and remove barriers to care for patients with opioid use disorders. The use of buprenorphine and a patient-centered interactive phone application have added an additional layer of success in patient recovery.
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Among people with HIV who also inject drugs, an estimated 80 to 90 percent are coinfected with Hepatitis C (HCV.) This panel will provide updates on screening and referral activities and demonstrate how community and city partners are overcoming barriers to HCV care among PWID.
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People with HIV 50 years and older is a rapidly increasing population with unique needs. The presentation summarizes a population-based approach to assess those needs and to respond with training and other resources. Presenters will describe the implementation of the approach by the New York City EMA in partnership with the Northeast/Caribbean AETC.
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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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