Use of RWHAP Funds for Health Care Coverage Costs
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Resource updated 09/19/2023
Resource updated 03/11/2024
Blog updated 03/28/2024
Resource updated 10/16/2023
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/03/2024
In collaboration with Tennessee Department of Corrections, we developed and implemented a stepwise HIV telemedicine program to optimize viral suppression in the state prisons during 2010-2018. Clinic attendance increased from 50 percent to 90 percent during full implementation. Viral suppression increased from 30 percent in 2010 to 90 percent in 2018.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Development of a referral processes for persons re-entering the community from incarceration (in SOAR program), with referrals prior to release, resulting in higher rate of first appointments within 30-days; challenges for linkage to care through SOAR remain after release.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Blog updated 03/21/2024
A significant proportion of African Americans living with HIV/AIDS get care from HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
Blog updated 03/29/2024
Training manual for health care providers on adapting SPNS models addressing how to engage hard-to-reach people with HIV into their current operations.
Resource updated 03/12/2024
Curriculum on how to replicate models of care developed to engage and retain hard-to-reach populations into HIV medical care. Document can also serve as a quality improvement tool.
Resource updated 03/13/2024
Resource updated 08/29/2022
This curriculum is meant to inform implementation of a new jail linkage program and to assist organizations in expanding their current jail work.
Target audiences include AIDS service organizations, community-based organizations, Ryan White HIV/ AIDS Program grantees and providers, and local health departments.
Jail health administrators may find the information herein to be helpful in discussions around establishing or modifying a jail linkage program; however, they are not the primary audience for this guide.
Resource updated 03/12/2024
Learn about World AIDS Day and activities of HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
Blog updated 11/09/2023
Summary of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provisions under HRSA and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and PrEP resources on coverage and costs and providers with PrEP expertise.
Blog updated 11/14/2023
A 2014 blog on how a Ryan White HIV clinic negotiated with a health plan, with lessons learned for agencies seeking coverage for the new treatment long-acting injectables.
Blog updated 03/25/2024
Cross-post of a guest editorial by Dr. Laura Cheever, HRSA Associate Administrator for HIV/AIDS, from Leading with Race, NMAC.
Blog updated 01/07/2021
At USCA 2016, HRSA staff presented a Pathway track and participated in a handful of Secretary's Minority AIDS Initiative Fund (SMAIF) Pathway sessions with their HHS colleagues.
Blog updated 06/01/2021
Many RWHAP recipients have some type of new employee orientation, a fundamental requirement for any agency considering the amount of turnover in the HIV workforce.
Blog updated 02/28/2022