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State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs), which provide medications for people with HIV who lack health coverage. play "a critical role in addressing STIs for people with HIV"News Article updated on 05/24/2023
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STI Implementation Plan Released
HHS has released an implementation plan on specific actions for entities to take in preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STI).News Article updated on 06/13/2023 -
Micro Learning: Black Cisgender and Trans Women, HIV Treatment, & PrEP
Learn how to improve messaging about HIV prevention and care to improve acceptance of services among all Black women.Resource updated 05/10/2023
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Project Strength Through Youth Livin' Empowered (STYLE) 2.0
STYLE 2.0 is a multi-component intervention designed to help reduce stigma and social isolation for Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. The intervention relies on health care navigators who facilitate linkage and engagement activities. They also connect clients to behavioral health providers who conduct motivational interviewing, as well as to a mobile application that supports all intervention activities. STYLE 2.0 participation has been associated with positive trends across HIV care continuum outcomes, including retention in care and increased viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/30/2023
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Addressing STIs: Ask. Test. Treat. Repeat.
Nine sites implemented four evidence-based interventions, collectively known as Addressing STIs: Ask.Test.Treat.Repeat. The four intervention components are audio computer-assisted self-interview sexual history taking, patient self-collection of urogenital and extragenital site chlamydia/gonorrhea nucleic acid amplification test specimens, sexual and gender minority welcoming indicators, and provider training, with the overall goal to routinize STI screening, testing, and treatment in primary care. The interventions increased routine STI screening and testing of bacterial STIs based on reported behavioral risk.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 05/14/2024
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weCare Social Media Intervention
In weCare, a cyber health educator sent personalized messages through text, web-based apps, and Facebook to enrolled youth who identified as gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men (MSM), or transgender women, and who either had a new diagnosis of HIV or were not in care at the time of enrollment. Messages were personalized to each participant’s needs and were designed to support them as they navigated complicated health care systems as well as other challenges that affect care engagement (e.g., transportation, disclosure). The cyber health educator also moderated and posted information about health and well-being on an optional secret Facebook page that some participants chose to join. Participants were less likely to miss medical appointments and more likely to be virally suppressed after 12 months of the intervention.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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Navigator Case Management for People Leaving Jail
The Navigator Case Management intervention helps people with HIV who are incarcerated and are leaving to return to the community. The intervention uses harm reduction, case management, and motivational interviewing techniques to promote healthy behaviors. Enhanced case management including peer support and connection to other needed services both immediately before and after release supports increased linkage to and retention in HIV care for people transitioning to the community from jail.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/19/2024
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Positively Connected for Health (PC4H)
The PC4H initiative employs a mobile app and a digital literacy workshop to improve engagement, retention in care, and medication adherence for young people with HIV. These strategies aim to reach young people who are disproportionately affected by HIV, including young men who have sex with men, young transgender women, and youth of color, with a focus on serving people who know their status but are inconsistently engaged in care. Developed by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Philadelphia FIGHT, PC4H was evaluated through the RWHAP Part F SPNS Social Media Initiative. The evaluation found that PC4H had positive impacts on retention in care and viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 11/17/2023
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Capacity Building for Innovative Program Replication
SPNS initiative focused on building and enhancing the capacity of RWHAP recipients and subrecipients to replicate evidence-informed models of care/interventions among RWHAP jurisdictions. Project period: 2019-2023.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 03/04/2024
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Aging with HIV Initiative
SPNS project evaluating interventions that seek to improve the well-being of RWHAP clients 50 and older. Project period: 2022-2025.RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 02/27/2024
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Applying technological innovation: Harnessing an electronic patient portal to achieve a patient-centered approach to recertification
Using a multidisciplinary approach to harness the electronic patient portal for completion of RWHAP six-month recertification documents, we were able to create a more patient-centered method that complies with program requirements. We will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and results of using such technology in program recertification.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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The Role of Peer Support Specialists within the Continuum of Services for Sexually Transmitted Infections
Utilization of a peer support specialist to increase routine bacterial sexually transmitted infection screening, testing, and treatment in an urban clinic and related patient care outcomes.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Peer Educators at Two Universities Leverage Technology to Cultivate Conversations About HIV Testing and Prevention
The results of training of peer educators to interview expert HIV providers in order to enhance student HIV knowledge and HIV testing in student health centers (and increased Vodcast viewing). Interview skills building was done by student health centers in collaboration with community partners including the Northeast/Caribbean AETC.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Assessing programmatic impact of movement between geographically clustered Part A service areas in Florida
RWHAP Part A programs in Florida are housed within county governments, not the state department of health. This prevents direct data sharing, leading to outdated out-of-care (OOC) lists. Migration of residents between counties complicates the management of OOC lists, creating a need for streamlined data exchange and matching.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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A Call for Enhanced Data Collection
The syndemic of opioid use disorder, HCV and HIV and stigma causes burdens on individuals and the system. Integrating siloed systems of care is critical to addressing this crisis. Overlapping cascades of care are key to understanding the empirical relationships of these diseases and opportunities to identify, prevent and co-treat.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Two States’ Journeys to integrate programs and utilize innovative approaches to improve data quality
Data Systems are often black holes, where agencies enter in data, but are not able to efficiently access useful and actionable data back out to take actions to improve services. Learn how panel participants are using innovation and participatory design to provide useful tools and data to the front lines.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Centering Peer Health Navigators to Improve Care and Treatment for Black Women Living with HIV
Role of peer health navigators in an evidence-informed strategy to improve HIV care and treatment for cisgender and transgender Black women living with HIV in the Greater New Orleans region.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Underserved, Unhoused, and Unequipped: Assisting Young Black Men who have Sex with Men during COVID-19
Work of Health Care Navigators (HCN) in connecting with community partners in order to deliver housing resources for young black men who have sex with men during COVID-19.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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EMR Data Collection and Infrastructure Improvement
Positive Health Clinic successfully completed a quality improvement project related to our EMR, EPIC. The focus of this project was streamlining data collection, data utilization, and reporting processes in the EMR. The enhancements to our EMR yielded improvements in three areas: communication across disciplines, formalized treatment plans, and data reporting.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Innovative approaches for risk-based assessment to increase STI screening for people with HIV
Screening protocols developed to identify more opportunities for testing at multiple sites and in asymptomatic individuals among persons at risk individuals with HIV to prevent and treat STIs.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023