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An important Special Enrollment Period (SEP), sometimes referred to as “the Low Income SEP” is available to eligible low-income people for plan years 2022 - 2025.News Article updated on 01/26/2023
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Write about Your HIV Intervention with Confidence
Not sure how to tackle the task of writing about your intervention? IHIP can help.News Article updated on 01/27/2023 -
Postpartum Retention and Engagement Quality Improvement Initiative
The University of Mississippi Medical Center implemented a Postpartum Retention and Engagement Quality Improvement Initiative in 2017 to improve linkage to care, retention in care, and viral suppression among postpartum women with HIV. This intervention uses a combination of care coordination, printed materials, case management services, and improved collaboration and coordination between the Adult Special Care Clinic, which provides comprehensive HIV medical care, and a Perinatal HIV Program. The comprehensive intervention significantly improved retention in HIV care and increased viral suppression at both six and 12 months postpartum.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/14/2023
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Issue Brief: Using Participatory Art Approaches to Promote Health and Empower Client Voice
Use of participatory arts to generate dialogue and engage individuals in receiving health care and participating in community activities.Resource updated 01/08/2024
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TAVIE Red: Mobile Application for Self-Management
TAVIE Red is a mobile application that aims to improve retention in HIV care and address social determinants of health. It helps case managers connect with clients and uses gamification, a technique with elements of gameplay such as earning points and completing quests, to increase engagement with HIV care and psychological self-care management tools. TAVIE Red participants overwhelmingly reported that the technology helped them manage their HIV diagnosis.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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MORE: Mobile Outreach Prevention and Engagement
MORE focuses on people who are not virally suppressed and/or who have not attended an HIV medical appointment in six months. Participants can choose from one of three MORE programs, depending on the intensity of services they want. Based on initial evaluation findings, participants who received more intensive MORE services were more likely to be virally suppressed and less likely to be lost to follow-up than those who received less intensive services.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/15/2024
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LA Links (Louisiana Links)
LA Links is a combined data-to-care and client navigation approach that cross-references routinely collected HIV surveillance data with other secondary data sources to identify and locate people with HIV who are not in care, as well as those who are in care, but with high viral loads. Originally implemented in 2013 as part of the Care and Prevention in the United States Demonstration Project, LA Links improved linkage to care, reengagement in care, and viral suppression. Louisiana expanded the program statewide in 2016.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/01/2023
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HIV and OUD Service and Funding Matrices Guide and Template
Tool to support state health departments in identifying opportunities for enhanced coordination between HIV and OUD funding and service provision.Resource updated 04/18/2024
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How to Create Your Own Photovoice Project
How to create a photovoice: participatory action research that engages people in the process of naming, capturing, and strengthening their community through photography.Resource updated 06/05/2024
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The Undetectables Program to Support Viral Suppression
The Undetectables is a client-centered model of integrated care that uses innovative, superhero-themed, anti-stigma social marketing, agency cultural change, and a toolkit of evidence-based antiretroviral therapy adherence strategies to support treatment adherence and viral suppression among people with HIV. A two-year demonstration project evaluation showed a significant increase in the proportion of clients who were virally suppressed from 39% to 62%.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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RWHAP Part A Guidance for Planning Bodies on Supporting People with Lived Experience
From the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Listserv, 12/16/22
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Imposition of Charges Schedule of Charges and Cap on Charges
RWHAP statutory requirements and programmatic guidance pertaining to the imposition of charges on clients for services, the schedule of charges, nominal charges, sliding fee scale, and caps on charges.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Wellness Web 2.0
Wellness Web 2.0 is a text message-based intervention that offers health education tools, appointment reminders, and navigation services to increase linkage to and retention in care for youth and young adults with HIV. Clients across 27 counties in South Texas enrolled in the Wellness Web 2.0 program had improvements in linkage to HIV medical care and viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 06/21/2024
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LINK LA
LINK LA is a 12-session, 24-week peer navigation intervention for people with HIV who are scheduled to be released from incarceration. LINK LA peer navigators focus on behavioral changes that promote medication adherence and retention in care, while providing social support and facilitating communication with medical providers. LINK LA showed improvements in linkage to and retention in HIV care and viral suppression among people with HIV re-entering the community after incarceration.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/03/2024
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Tailored Motivational Interviewing for Youth
Five clinics implemented Tailored Motivational Interviewing (TMI) to better serve young people with HIV as part of a RWHAP Part F SPNS initiative. Motivational interviewing is a well-documented approach to engage youth in care and facilitate behavior change in a variety of contexts. Clients participating in TMI received integrated HIV medical care and TMI, and demonstrated improved engagement in care and health outcomes.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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Development of a Community Planning and Budget Allocation Tool to Reduce HIV Outcome Disparities
We used a data-driven, mixed method approach to develop a community planning and budget tool to inform resource allocation decision-making to achieve health equity in HIV outcomes among RWHAP clients in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Transitional Grant Area.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Roadmaps: The Journey of PLWH Improving Health Outcomes for PLWH
This presentation will share innovative strategies in the creation of a reflective Consumer Advisory Board, HIT HIV. The presentation will showcase quality improvement projects the HIT HIV CAB completed while leveraging technology, social media, consumer feedback, and CQM principles ensuring a community-driven and equitable process toward ending the HIV epidemic.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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The Max Clinic
The Max Clinic, located within the University of Washington’s Harborview Medical Center complex in Seattle, offers walk-in services and incentives to clients reengaging in HIV care, especially those who have not been well served by the traditional health care model—including clients who are experiencing homelessness, or who have mental health and substance use issues. The Max Clinic offers rapid antiretroviral therapy, incentives, a flexible clinical model, and access to comprehensive support services. Max Clinic clients were significantly more likely to reach viral suppression after 12 months than a comparable control group.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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ELEVATE: The Evolution of Building Leaders of Color (BLOC) Institute 301
ELEVATE approaches to build the capacity of people with HIV to be meaningfully involved in planning, delivering, and improving RWHAP services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Community Engagement Institute 201: The Impact of the Stories We Tell
Panel from the RWHAP community on community engagement and their stories.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023