Rapid ART: An Essential Strategy to End the HIV Epidemic
Resource updated 03/15/2023
Resource updated 03/15/2023
Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Resource updated 02/27/2024
Five sites participating in the SPNS Black Men who Have Sex with Men (BMSM) Initiative are implementing the Youth-focused Case Management model of care to support behavioral health services integration to improve HIV health outcomes. This session will discuss the intervention adaptations to fit local context and population needs and early implementation experiences.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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
The STAR Program, a Ryan White Part C program, initiated a 30-minute, weekly televised TV health magazine that engages the community across multiple social media and television platforms with a focus on health particularly HIV treatment and Prevention, reaching young adults. (https://bit.ly/2EqYQIk).
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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
Rapid has developed into a core feature of the Dorothy Mann Center HIV care continuum, assuring immediate linkage to expert HIV services, immediate initiation of therapy, and rapid viral suppression. Benefits are present for youth prevention services. Rapid access models are feasible and beneficial for youth HIV care and prevention.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Become familiar with tools and resources to help identify and reduce viral suppression disparities among key populations living with HIV. This session showcases the activities undertaken by the Ryan White Wellness Center in Charleston, South Carolina, that helped eliminate viral suppression disparities among its young men of color who have sex with men.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Trauma, stigma, and addiction rob us of our human identity. Spirituality is a universal human experience that touches us all. However, we leave the discussion of spiritual beliefs out of our treatment plans and leadership directives. Join us as we explore the connections among trauma, recovery, health, and spirituality, and learn ways to transform our practices and programs.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This peer-led workshop will include skills-building interactive sessions about two evidence-informed interventions that address trauma and addictions among people with HIV, specifically Trauma-Informed Approach & Coordinated Assistance and Navigation for Growth and Empowerment (TIA/CHANGE) and Seeking Safety.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
A clinic-based substance abuse screening and treatment program is described. Using the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment model, this provides annual proactive screening of alcohol/drug use, with a brief provider response and a follow-up motivational interviewing brief intervention, with treatment provided by an embedded provider.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Oklahoma has been classified by the Department of Health and Human Services as one of the seven states with a high rural HIV burden. Test-and-treat protocols are feasible within high-volume HIV clinics which serve rural and underserved communities to minimize the time to the first appointment to decrease time to viral load suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Determining effective communication strategies for people with HIV based on young adults (18-35), older adults (36+), and provider's perspective, can help improve engagement in care and health education through a convergent mixed-methods approach.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will give information on the RWHAP SPNS Social Media Initiative (SMI), which used social media and digital technology to improve HIV outcomes for young people. It will provide cross-site outcomes from 10 demonstration sites. Three sites will discuss demonstration models. Resources for replicating the intervention models will be presented.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will discuss why youth experience unstable housing differently than adults, as well as innovative strategies for stabilizing youth in HIV care and housing. It will conclude with an interactive participant Q&A period.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Reaching viral suppression for the last 10% is challenging! Three different clinical sites across the state of Missouri identified a way to stratify unsuppressed patients – those that are consistently viremic and those that are unexpectedly viremic. This presentation will focus on quality improvement (QI) interventions for patients with persistent viremia.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will cover Ryan White-supported clinics and services that needed to be adapted and tailored to address the unique needs of young people with HIV, particularly mental health services, to optimize their retention and viral suppression. Innovative research and community projects in New York City, Philadelphia, and Atlanta will be presented.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) can help clinical and social programs adopt a culture of safety, healing, and empowerment. It can provide a framework for working more effectively with vulnerable populations experiencing HIV. This interactive session will introduce participants to the practical aspects of TIC interventions.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023