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On May 11, HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau released a program letter encouraging RWHAP ADAP recipients to include medications for SUDs, including buprenorphine for OUD, and naloxone for opioid overdose prevention, on ADAP formularies.News Article updated on 05/15/2023
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Project Vogue
Project Vogue provided community-based care coordination, HIV care, and behavioral health services to Black men who have sex with men (MSM) within New York City’s House & Ball community to address the unique cultural barriers that Black MSM experience when trying to access care. Project Vogue participants were linked to behavioral health services as well as to non-clinical supportive services, such as food and housing assistance.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/17/2024
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Eradicating Racism and Striving for Excellence in HIV Care (ERASE)
ERASE was developed to address the unique needs of Black MSM. Through an intensive case management intervention, peer case managers provide health education and wellness support, and connect clients to medical and behavioral healthcare. ERASE also offers a physical “safe space” for Black MSM to meet with a case manager, access medical services, or connect with peers. Enrollment in ERASE improved retention in HIV care for clients.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/09/2024
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Positive Peers
Mobile app for youth offering information, social networking, and self-management tools to support holistic HIV care.Resource updated 10/13/2023
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Viviendo Valiente
Viviendo Valiente aims to reduce ethnic disparities in HIV care and outcomes by providing culturally responsive services to the Latino/a community, specifically to people of Mexican descent. It is a multi-level intervention, featuring individual-, group-, and community-level activities, that links people to HIV care, offers HIV education and health literacy in group sessions, and promotes community-level testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Viviendo Valiente had positive impacts on HIV testing, retention in care, viral suppression, and client satisfaction.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/15/2024
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STI Implementation Plan Released
HHS has released an implementation plan on specific actions for entities to take in preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STI).News Article updated on 06/13/2023 -
Project Strength Through Youth Livin' Empowered (STYLE) 2.0
STYLE 2.0 is a multi-component intervention designed to help reduce stigma and social isolation for Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. The intervention relies on health care navigators who facilitate linkage and engagement activities. They also connect clients to behavioral health providers who conduct motivational interviewing, as well as to a mobile application that supports all intervention activities. STYLE 2.0 participation has been associated with positive trends across HIV care continuum outcomes, including retention in care and increased viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/30/2023
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Navigator Case Management for People Leaving Jail
The Navigator Case Management intervention helps people with HIV who are incarcerated and are leaving to return to the community. The intervention uses harm reduction, case management, and motivational interviewing techniques to promote healthy behaviors. Enhanced case management including peer support and connection to other needed services both immediately before and after release supports increased linkage to and retention in HIV care for people transitioning to the community from jail.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/19/2024
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Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations
The RWHAP Part F SPNS program funded the Building a Medical Home for Multiply Diagnosed HIV-Positive Homeless Populations initiative from 2012–2017, to provide coordinated housing supports and HIV, behavioral and mental health care to people experiencing homelessness. Nine funded demonstration sites created partnerships with housing providers, integrated behavioral health and HIV care, and provided intensive patient navigator services. A multi-demonstration site evaluation found that, compared to baseline, participants were more likely to be virally suppressed after 12 months in the intervention.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/13/2023
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Capacity Building for Innovative Program Replication
SPNS initiative focused on building and enhancing the capacity of RWHAP recipients and subrecipients to replicate evidence-informed models of care/interventions among RWHAP jurisdictions. Project period: 2019-2023.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 03/04/2024
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Aging with HIV Initiative
SPNS project evaluating interventions that seek to improve the well-being of RWHAP clients 50 and older. Project period: 2022-2025.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 02/27/2024
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Expanding access to substance use and mental health services for HIV patients in Alabama
The objective of this study is to assess key stakeholders, including patients, for readiness to adopt a new standard of care. Because many people with HIV in Alabama experience low literacy, low income, and are racial minorities, data suggests they will experience greater barriers to healthcare information technology, like PROs and Telehealth.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Peer Educators at Two Universities Leverage Technology to Cultivate Conversations About HIV Testing and Prevention
The results of training of peer educators to interview expert HIV providers in order to enhance student HIV knowledge and HIV testing in student health centers (and increased Vodcast viewing). Interview skills building was done by student health centers in collaboration with community partners including the Northeast/Caribbean AETC.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Centering Peer Health Navigators to Improve Care and Treatment for Black Women Living with HIV
Role of peer health navigators in an evidence-informed strategy to improve HIV care and treatment for cisgender and transgender Black women living with HIV in the Greater New Orleans region.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Underserved, Unhoused, and Unequipped: Assisting Young Black Men who have Sex with Men during COVID-19
Work of Health Care Navigators (HCN) in connecting with community partners in order to deliver housing resources for young black men who have sex with men during COVID-19.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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A Third-Year Service Learning Rotation Program: Dental Students’ Perceptions of Community Engagement Experiences
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine has partnered with community partners to implement a dental care delivery system for PLWHA in NYC. A week-long Service Learning Rotation was integrated into the third-year dental student curriculum; data analysis from this pilot year will be used for program quality improvement and modification.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Providing Trainings and Technical Assistance to help continue and improve HIV Oral Health Services During COVID-19
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.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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National HIV Curriculum 3rd Edition Launched
After extensive reviews and updates, the National HIV Curriculum 3rd Edition launched on September 1 to start a new 3-year CE accreditation period.News Article updated on 09/27/2023 -
Best Practices Approaches 100
There are, as of February 6, 2024, a total of 98 HIV care interventions in HRSA's Best Practices Compilation.News Article updated on 02/06/2024 -
Project Vogue Implementation Guide
Components of an intervention focused on BMSM with HIV who have not yet been successfully maintained in care.Resource updated 10/18/2023