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CDC has created a webpage where you can select your state and find out where to get an HIV self-test (home test) for free or reduced cost.News Article updated on 01/27/2021
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Transition HIV+ Youth from Adolescent to Adult Services: Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Toolkit for implementing a program to support HIV-positive youth transitioning from adolescent to adult HIV care.
Resource updated 09/19/2023
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Adapting and Implementing the Youth-Focused Case Management Model for the SPNS BMSM Initiative
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
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Implementing Evidence-Informed Interventions with Black MSM to Improve Access, Engagement/Reengagement, and Health Outcomes
This peer-led workshop will explore the implementation of evidence-informed interventions with black men who have sex with men (MSM) through Project CONNECT at AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, Tailored Motivational Interviewing at the University of Mississippi, and TXTXT at the SUNY-Downstate HEAT Program in Brooklyn. Attendees will learn the core elements of these interventions to improve engagement and viral suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Instituto de Liderazgo para las Personas Con VIH, Sesión 1 (101): Liderazgo Intencional
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
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Positive Love: Improving Health Outcomes of Young, Black MSM with HIV in the Deep South
The presentation will cover the efficacy of +Love, a five-pronged intervention in New Orleans, involving a dedicated case manager, therapist, peer support, ride service, and text-based alert program that tracks clients' basic needs, mood, and provides medication reminders, in improving the healthcare and treatment satisfaction of young, black men who have sex with men (MSM) with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Support Services Trifecta: Creative Utilization of Transportation, Housing, and Food
A case study of one Part B subrecipient improved linkage and retention rates through the innovative use of medical transportation, housing services, and food bank and home-delivered meals. The presentation will share lessons learned and propose strategies to replicate these services elsewhere.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Innovative Approaches to Increase Engagement in Mental Health Services among Youth with HIV
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
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Utilizing the Community to Reach the Community: Ending the Epidemic with Community Health Workers
The road to ending the epidemic must be paved with community engagement. Community health care workers (CHWs) represent the voice of the community and play a vital role in linkage and retention to care. DC Health piloted three innovative care models to strategically ensure the community's voice is permanently embedded in HIV services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Developing Systems to Collect, Report, & Use Data to Optimize CHW Initiatives in the South (16076)
Through the Southern Initiative, CAI supported four Part A agencies in the South in integrating a Community Health Worker (CHW) model to address disparities in HIV outcomes. The session will describe the development of systems to collect, report, and use real-time data to track implementation progress and client outcomes. Results reveal promising client outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Leveraging HRSA and HUD Funding to Improve Outcomes for People Who Are Unstably Housed
In this workshop, two sites in HRSA's Improving Health Outcomes through the Coordination of Supportive Employment and Housing Services Initiative will describe how they work with their Part A Planning Councils and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Coordinated Entry System to identify and obtain permanent housing for people with HIV who are unstably housed.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Linkage Navigation Program Increasing Linkage to Care
Linkage Navigation Program provides an immediate connection to same-day medical care and medical case management services, promoting timely linkage to care and services, and tailored individualized care operationalizing initiatives such as Test N Treat and Test N PrEP with positive health outcomes for Ryan White clients.
Learning Objectives
- Increase linkage to care.
- Facilitate same-day linkage to medical care and services.
- Improve access, engagement and health outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Health Information Exchange and Peer Navigation: A Model to Engage Vulnerable Populations
Presenters will describe a New York City collaborative pilot project utilizing Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) to locate lost-to-care people with HIV. Lost-to-care encounter alerts provide community-based organizations with actionable, real-time data to supplement their ‘classic' care engagement efforts. The model offers a potentially scalable, cost-effective strategy for patient re-engagement efforts on a population level.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Disseminated Evidence-Informed Initiative for Linkage of Women of Color to HIV Care: Virologic Outcome
This sub-study compared viral suppression between SPNS participants and non-participants at the Meharry site. The SPNS study enrolled women of color newly who were recently diagnosed with HIV or lost to care. There was no statistically significant difference in viral suppression after controlling for demographic and clinical factors.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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RWHAP SPNS Initiative: Using Social and Digital Media to Improve HIV Care in Young People
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
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Evaluating the Impact of the RWHAP: From Cost-Effectiveness to Clinical Care
This workshop will present findings from three recently completed HRSA/HAB-sponsored studies that evaluated the impact of the RWHAP, specifically regarding its cost-effectiveness, models of clinical care, and factors associated with viral suppression.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the cost-effectiveness of the RWHAP.
- Describe the impact of different clinical care models on HIV clinical outcomes.
- Describe factors associated with RWHAP clients reaching and/or maintaining viral suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Peer-Led Advocacy for Quality Initiative in Portland
This presentation focuses on peer-based training for engaging consumer voices in HIV providers' quality improvement efforts. Community-based, peer-led efforts impact HIV care program effectiveness. Peer-led training concentrating on client advocacy and involvement in quality improvement is another method for promoting intentional collaboration between HIV service programs and people with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Implementing Evidence-Informed Interventions with Transgender Women to Improve Access, Engagement, and Health Outcomes
This workshop will explore the implementation of peer-led, evidence-informed interventions for transgender women with HIV. The programs are Healthy Divas, and Transgender Women Engagement and Entry to Care Project (T.W.E.E.T.). Attendees will learn the core elements of these interventions and how they improve engagement in care, treatment adherence, and viral suppression in Alabama and Michigan.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Community Health Workers Improve Viral Load Suppression in Non-Treatment Adherent Populations to End the Epidemic
Community Health Workers (CHWs) were added to the care team to work with clients with poor treatment adherence and not viral load suppression (VLS). Clients benefited from CHW services that contributed to VLS in over 50% of the clients assigned to them. CHWs are vital in ending the epidemic in challenging client populations
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Strategies for Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV & Opioid Use Disorder
As part of the Special Projects of National Significance initiative, Strengthening Systems of Care for People with HIV and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), JSI/NASTAD provides technical assistance to nine states. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss HIV and OUD system barriers and diverse solutions states are employing to address challenges.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023