National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
Event updated 01/18/2024
Event updated 01/18/2024
Webinars and other special events by HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.
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Guide on how to implement an opt-out HIV testing program in a jail setting.
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Maricopa County’s Part A Program used HRSA Policy 18-02, which defines allowable services for incarcerated individuals, to expand services in county jails. This session provides a clinical and administrative perspective on the processes, forms, and services that decreased time from jail-based diagnosis to treatment and viral load suppression.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
In December 2019 the Iowa ADAP launched its Jail Assistance Program to extend HIV medication access to county jails. The ADAP partnered with a local jail to create a program that could be replicated across all of Iowa’s 99 counties. This presentation will focus on program development, utilization, and lessons learned.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
All RWHAP recipients and providers will experience an increase in their aging population and will need to respond. This session will give a firsthand perspective on aging with HIV, provide an overview of RWHAP aging data, summarize medical conditions and psychosocial needs facing aging clients, and review HRSA initiatives.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Discuss the role of the geriatrician and roles that can be transferred to other staff; review the geriatric screenings and assessments and staff who can perform the screenings and assessments; share models where geriatric services were integrated into the clinic; and provide information about the experience of receiving integrated services.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will discuss the landscape of community aging resources and partnerships available within jurisdictions, explore methods to identify and develop partnerships with community aging resources, and focus on the experiences of RWHAP recipients, providers, and people aging with HIV in identifying community aging resources, developing community aging partnerships, and utilizing community aging resources.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Successes and lessons learned will be shared from three metropolitan areas on incorporating STI testing and treatment for prevention clients within an HIV medical home setting, along with how offering STI treatment impacts early identification service outcomes (e.g., HIV positivity rates, linkage to care referrals, and the rapid start of HIV treatment).
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This interactive workshop will review updated data and discuss implementation challenges, facilitators, and best practices for routine screening/linkage in an emergency department with urban and rural challenges. Preliminary data from the initial two months (with more than 2,000 patients screened) include .7% HIV (including three acute infections), 7% Hepatitis C (HCV) and 5.2% syphilis.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Panelists will describe collaborative prevention and support services provided to people with HIV and/or hepatitis from incarceration to re-entry. Services addressing social determinants of health are provided in corrections facilities and upon release. Panelists include the program director, staff from a correctional medical facility, and community-based organizations working inside and outside of correction facilities.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023