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Curriculum updated on 06/01/2021
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Health Department Structural Changes to Advance Integration of HIV Prevention and Care Services
Structural changes that health departments can make to facilitate integrated approaches to HIV care and prevention. Part of the Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Planning Online Resource Guide.
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Housing First to Treat and Prevent HIV
Caracole, an AIDS Service Organization, uses three interconnected approaches to improve retention in HIV care: housing first, harm reduction, and motivational interviewing. Clients in permanent supportive housing had high rates of viral suppression, exceeding Caracole's goal of 75%.
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 05/13/2024
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Integrating HIV Primary Care and Behavioral Health Services
To better integrate primary care with behavioral health services, providers were trained on trauma-informed care and contracts and standards of care were modified to require that medical providers conduct mental health screenings. As a result, receipt of mental health services and care retention rates improved.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/17/2024
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Using a Multidisciplinary Approach to Improve Retention in HIV Care
MacGregor Infectious Diseases, a hospital-based clinic affiliated with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, implemented a multidisciplinary approach to strengthen outreach to clients and improve care retention. As compared to clients in standard care, clients served with the multidisciplinary approach had higher rates of retention in care, particularly among clients who were not virally suppressed.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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Ridesharing to Transport Clients to Medical Visits
San Joaquin County Public Health Services Department partnered with the California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS to help clients get to medical appointments via ridesharing. Representing the first partnership between a jurisdiction and a ridesharing company, this program addresses transportation barriers, promotes engagement in medical care, and leads to cost savings.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/15/2024
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Creating a Culture of Trauma-Informed Care
Lehigh Valley Health Network Comprehensive Health Services implemented a trauma-informed approach to care delivery, including training staff on how trauma can affect people’s health and how microaggressions in healthcare environments can potentially trigger trauma responses. This approach positively impacted care delivery and the program’s retention in care rate.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/01/2023
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Co-Locating Care Management Staff and Peers in Medical Clinics
This medical-community partnership worked to link clients to care and decrease missed appointments and used peer navigators to successfully re-engage clients in care.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/17/2024
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Providing HIV Services to People Who Are Incarcerated
The Maricopa Jail Project was implemented by five jails to decrease the wait time between incarceration and/or diagnosis to the start of treatment, and to better support clients to reach viral suppression. Maricopa hired a nurse practitioner to manage access and case manage across the jail system. The initiative was successful in increasing the number of clients who were virally suppressed.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 12/12/2023
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Coordinador de atención médica del Proyecto CAATCH / Manual de intervención entre pares
Plan de estudios de sesiones educativas para promover la participación y retención del cliente en la atención del VIH a fin de aumentar las tasas generales de supresión viral, con base en prácticas informadas por la evidencia, incluidas entrevistas motivacionales, para abordar las brechas identificadas en la atención.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
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National HIV Curriculum e-Learning Platform
The NHC provides ongoing, up-to-date information needed to meet the core competency knowledge for HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and ongoing treatment and care to healthcare providers in the United States. Project period: 2020-2022.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 04/15/2024
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Partnerships for Care (P4C): Health Departments and Health Centers Collaborating to Improve HIV Health Outcomes
Toolkit to help Health Centers expand the provision of HIV services.Resource updated 03/15/2023
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Test and Treat
The Test and Treat initiative, implemented by Oklahoma State University, connects people to antiretroviral therapy (ART) within 14 days of HIV diagnosis through streamlined intake and initial clinic visit protocols and 30-day medication starter packs. Participants in Test and Treat are linked to care and reach viral suppression sooner, and are more likely to be retained in care, as compared with people in standard care.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/12/2024
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Tech/Mobile Apps Supporting HIV Care
Technology-focused tools to support HIV care engagement.Blog updated 04/10/2023
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Black Women First Initiative
Design, implementation, and evaluation of bundled evidence–informed interventions for Black women with HIV. Project period: 2020-2024.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 06/24/2024
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Community Health Worker Supervisor Curriculum
A curriculum for supervisors of Community Health Workers (CHWs).Resource updated 01/31/2024
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AIDS at 40: Envisioning a Future We Never Imagined
June 5, 1981. Many people who work in the HIV field know its significance: the day when the first AIDS cases were officially reported.Blog updated 06/10/2021
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Peer Engagement to Improve Linkage to Care and Improve Retention for Youth, Women, Infants and Children
University Health System’s peer engagement initiative employs peers, alongside Patient Navigators, to provide support and improve linkage and retention to care for youth, women, infants, and children. Group support activities and a chat-enabled website are two of the methods used to continually engage our population of focus.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Spanning the Chasm: An Implementation Science Partnership: EHE Jurisdictions, AETC, and NIMH-Funded AIDS Research Center
This interactive workshop discusses the process, facilitators, barriers, and lessons learned while conducting two End the Epidemic, NIMH-funded implementation science planning grants awarded to the AIDS Research Center at Columbia University in partnership with the Northeast/Caribbean AETC and several Departments of Health, Ryan White recipients, and community stakeholders.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Utilizing Program Income and Community Partnerships to Address Challenges of Poverty in the Deep South
This session will outline establishment of community partnerships and implementation of housing, nutrition, and substance use treatment programs. It will detail contract development between the presenters’ clinic and community partners and outline how, following policy clarification notice (PCN) 16-02 guidance on allowable uses of program income, community partners are reimbursed in support of these programs.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023