Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Viral Hepatitis Vaccination Coverage for Ryan White-Enrolled Individuals
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Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America provides an incredible opportunity for jurisdictions to assess their health systems, prevention activities, and linkage to care programs. It is important that health departments create innovative programs and examine how this initiative can be used to address viral hepatitis as well.
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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.
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Massachusetts' statewide HIV Dental Services program is a unique collaboration across Ryan White Parts A and B to ensure all eligible residents with HIV in need of oral health services receive them. Data show that access to the program is associated with improved care continuum outcomes.
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Transgender women and men are at markedly elevated risk for HIV. This session reviews a successful four-pronged approach to building the capacity of a large multi-site RWHAP-funded community health center network, in collaboration with a community-based organization, to improve delivery of HIV primary care to transgender women and men.
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Explore how to leverage data visualizations created in Tableau in order to increase clinician access to HIV quality data and thereby motivating provider teams to improve quality measures. The session will also discuss an antiretroviral treatment (ART) dashboard created in Tableau.
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This presentation will focus on practical considerations in developing data-to-care efforts across providers and community partners, including system mapping processes, navigating complex legal structures, data requirements, barriers, and opportunities. Participants will do a self-assessment to identify where they are in their data-to-care efforts and pathways toward next steps.
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Presenters will review strategies for community health worker (CHW) workforce development. They will also discuss the creation of certification systems, development of training opportunities, preservation of a community based CHW workforce, and financing mechanisms to support CHW positions. In addition, presenters will discuss the importance of CHW engagement and involvement in state policymaking and planning.
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Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an important member of the healthcare delivery team linking organizations to the broader community and patients to care. Successful CHW integration is dependent on multiple factors. This interactive institute will detail strategies for integrating CHW models in HIV care based on a 10-site evaluation.
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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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The HCV Consultation Line (HEPline) has received multiple cases involving Hepatitis C (HCV) treatment interruptions with prescribers asking for guidance on best approaches. This presentation reviews representative HCV cases where treatment interruptions provide lessons in improving systems of care to prevent treatment lapses and optimize the chance of HCV cure.
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