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Doxycycline that is taken as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is effective in reducing the incidence of chlamydia and gonorrhea in men who have sex with men and transgender women.News Article updated on 04/11/2023
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DPD: Data Coordination
Improving data collection and reporting.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Eradicating Racism and Striving for Excellence in HIV Care (ERASE)
ERASE was developed to address the unique needs of Black MSM. Through an intensive case management intervention, peer case managers provide health education and wellness support, and connect clients to medical and behavioral healthcare. ERASE also offers a physical “safe space” for Black MSM to meet with a case manager, access medical services, or connect with peers. Enrollment in ERASE improved retention in HIV care for clients.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/09/2024
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Positive Peers
Mobile app for youth offering information, social networking, and self-management tools to support holistic HIV care.Resource updated 10/13/2023
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Health Centers on the Front Lines Podcast: Status Neutral
Review of concept of status neutral (access to HIV services regardless of HIV status).Resource updated 10/24/2023
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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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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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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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RWHAP Provider Use of Regional HIEs
Informal peer-to-peer discussion on regional health information exchanges.Resource updated 04/06/2023
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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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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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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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Strengthening the safety net: Testing a data-to-suppression (D2S) intervention in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
We will describe the development, early implementation, and simultaneous stepped-wedge evaluation of a novel structural intervention to promote viral suppression and reduce health disparities. The “data-to-suppression (D2S)” intervention involves enhanced Health Department data sharing and capacity building with providers of RWPA mental health, harm reduction, supportive counseling, and housing services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023