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Proyecto Promover
The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center launched Proyecto Promover to decrease HIV testing-related stigma, increase awareness of HIV status, and increase early linkage to and retention in care among Mexicanos with HIV. The program operates at the community level through social marketing, educational talks, networking, and testing. On the individual level, Proyecto Promover uses one-on-one conversations to identify and overcome barriers related to care engagement and retention. Evaluation showed promising rates of HIV testing, retention in care, and viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/29/2024
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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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Pay it Forward Transitional Care Coordination
One Stop Career Center of Puerto Rico (OSCC-PR) implemented Pay it Forward to increase workforce capacity to connect Puerto Ricans with HIV to community-based HIV care and social supports following release from jail. Pay it Forward included training of OSCC-PR staff in the Transitional Care Coordination model. Eighty percent of clients who were supported by Pay it Forward in Puerto Rico were still in HIV care 12 months after release.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 05/07/2024
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Project ACCEPT
Project ACCEPT is designed to improve engagement and retention in medical care for youth ages 16 to 24 years with newly diagnosed HIV. The educational and skill-building intervention was deployed at four demonstration sites and increased rates of medication use and appointment adherence in comparison to a control group. Although originally developed for cisgender youth, Project ACCEPT may be adapted for gender-diverse people.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/03/2024
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Beyond the Walls: Building Foundation for Jail Linkage Programs
Effective models and best practices for connection to care for justice-involved individuals.Resource updated 05/15/2024
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Resiliency of Black Women with HIV
Resilient, Black, and Graceful: A Night of a Thousand Words, brought together 30 Black women from greater Atlanta to celebrate and share stories about their lives after being diagnosed.Blog updated 11/15/2022
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Transitional Care Coordination: From Jail Intake to Community HIV Care Intervention
Transitional Care Coordination (TCC) connects people with HIV who are incarcerated with a transitional care coordinator to facilitate access to HIV primary care and other community-based services and supports, following their transition from jail back to the community. TCC aims to establish vital linkages between jail-based and community-based HIV care, and may be implemented by community-based organizations, clinics, health departments, or jails.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/02/2024
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Community Health Workers: Improving Linkage and Retention in HIV Care
Ten organizations across the U.S. integrated Community Health Workers (CHWs) into their multidisciplinary care teams. Enrolled clients had statistically significant improvements in viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy prescription, and appointment attendance after six months in the program.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/03/2024
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Maricopa County: Expanding Jail Services & Improving Health for Incarcerated People with HIV
The Maricopa County Jail Project was implemented by five jails and uses a nurse practitioner to manage service access and case management across the jail system.Resource updated 10/13/2023
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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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EHE in Focus
Tools to provide reporting guidance for recipients and providers that receive Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Initiative funding.Resource updated 04/03/2024
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EHE In Focus: Data Reporting Requirements for EHE-Funded Providers
Outline of data reporting requirements for RWHAP recipients and providers receiving Ending the HIV Epidemic funding.Resource updated 04/03/2024
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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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Maricopa County Jail Project: Providing HIV Service to People Who Are Incarcerated
Partnership between jail staff and public health prevention staff created new data communication systems and bundled services for clients upon release.Resource updated 05/15/2024
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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
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Empowerment through Health Education and Peer Support: Vivir Inspirar Defender Amar
Ideas for how to replicate a conference, developed by and for people with HIV, can create a safe space to address the ongoing needs of the community at large.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Long-Term Survivors Support Group
This 12-week pilot program focused on addressing the needs of long-term survivors.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Building Brothers Up (2BU)
2BU is a case management intervention designed to engage and reengage Black men who have sex with men with HIV into HIV care services. Peer case managers work closely with clients to increase HIV health literacy, troubleshoot accessibility issues to HIV care, and connect clients directly to behavioral health and support services. Clients who participated in 2BU had increased retention in care and viral suppression 12 months after enrollment.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/28/2024