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SPNS Initiative: SURE Housing Initiative (2022-2026)
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HPV Screening and Treatment Case-Based Presentation
Cancer screening including prevention of HPV-related cancers, focusing on anal cancer.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Urgent Emerging Infections in HIV: Monkeypox
Review of monkeypox epidemiology, clinical presentation in the U.S. versus prior presentation in African, screening of patients for monkeypox and STIs including HIV, and criteria for use of tecovirimat as treatment for monkeypox.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 02/21/2024
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Current CDC STI Treatment Guidelines: An Update
Review of the epidemiology of STIs, screening and treatment of STIs per the 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines (gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and Mycoplasma genitalium), and discussion of results from the recent DoxyPEP study and implications for practice.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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TransActivate
Bienestar developed TransActivate to improve timely engagement and retention in HIV care among Latina transgender women. Linkage coordinators/peer navigators use a strengths-based approach to help clients reach their goals of entering and staying in medical care to ultimately reach viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/12/2024
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Black MSM Behavioral Health Initiative
SPNS-sponsored project to evaluate four evidence-informed behavioral health interventions and/or models of care to engage, link, and retain Black MSM with HIV in medical care and supportive services. Project period: 2018-2022.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 03/04/2024
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Healthy Divas: E2i
Healthy Divas focuses on empowering transgender women with HIV to achieve their personal health goals. Three sites implemented the intervention as part of the E2i initiative funded through the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017 through 2021. Both engagement in HIV care and having an antiretroviral therapy prescription improved significantly for clients 12 months after enrollment in Healthy Divas.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/18/2024
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Tailored Motivational Interviewing: E2i
Tailored Motivational Interviewing (TMI) delivers brief motivational interviewing counseling sessions customized to encourage people with HIV to engage in HIV care, take HIV medications as prescribed, and improve other health-related behaviors. Three sites implemented TMI as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017 to 2021. Clients who participated in TMI had significant improvement in engagement in care, prescription of antiretroviral therapy, retention in care, and viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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The Black MSM Initiative: Protocol for Program Evaluation
Introductory paper describing the Black MSM Initiative and the protocol for the multisite evaluation.Resource updated 01/31/2023
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Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Antiretroviral Adherence among HIV-Positive Youth: E2i
The Text Messaging Intervention to Improve Antiretroviral Adherence among HIV-Positive Youth (TXTXT) is designed to keep young people, particularly young, Black, gay, bisexual, same-gender loving, and other men who have sex with men, engaged in HIV medical care, by delivering personalized, daily, interactive text messages that remind them to take their antiretroviral therapy as prescribed. Two sites implemented TXTXT as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. The intervention resulted in a statistically significant improvement in engagement in HIV care.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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E-VOLUTION
E-VOLUTION is a two-way text messaging intervention, originally developed by Washington University School of Medicine and piloted at Project ARK. The intervention focuses on improving health outcomes for youth, particularly young Black men who have sex with men. E-VOLUTION was designed for people ages 18-29 who have HIV and are receiving clinical care but require support to remain adherent. E-VOLUTION was evaluated and found to improve viral suppression and retention in care rates.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/12/2024
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Anal Cancer Screening: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Impactful Outcomes
Two-part presentation, with Part 1 review of research regarding the efficacy of anal cancer screening and active treatment of HSIL or high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in adults with HIV over 35 years old and Part 2 on a multidisciplinary approach to screening and the importance of consumer voices in guiding screening services.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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SPNS Black MSM Initiatives: The Intersection of COVID-19, Civil Unrest, and HIV
Discussion of the SPNS Black MSM Initiatives challenges and solutions to addressing program and client engagement disruptions.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Technical Assistance Overview, Case Studies, and Evaluation Findings from the Enhancing Linkage of STI and HIV Surveillance Data SPNS Initiative
Technical assistance framework and activities, jurisdictions' experiences, and evaluation findings from the HRSA HAB Enhancing Linkage of STI and HIV Surveillance Data in the RWHAP SPNS initiative.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Evidenced-Based Interventions to Improve Routine Screening and Testing of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections
Results of SPNS evidence-based bacterial STI screening and testing interventions implemented in nine RWHAP-funded clinics in three jurisdictions with higher national incidence rates.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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The Science of Implementing Equity: Utilizing an Implementation Science Framework to Improve Equity
Review of challenges, facilitators, and best practices for routine screening, linkage, and rapid ART in two emergency departments, including during COVID-19.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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A Cost Analysis of the HIV-STI Linkages Implementation
Analysis of the costs of staff time to link HIV and STI surveillance data across four jurisdictions over a two-year period.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Improving Reengagement in Care Using a Community Health Worker Model: Evidence from New Orleans
Lessons learned from an EMA-wide effort to embed community health workers in RWHAP Part A agencies to improve retention in care.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Operation BRAVE: Ending the Epidemic by Achieving Health Equity through Patient Navigation
Review of a patient navigation model and its three components.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023