Linkage, Integration, Navigation, and Comprehensive Services (LINCS)
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/03/2024
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/03/2024
Significant challenges exist in vaccinating people with HIV for COVID-19. Our RWPC program set out to implement and evaluate a vaccine initiative for COVID-19 for people with HIV. We achieved vaccine rates of 78 percent being fully vaccinated by December 1, 2021 and 30 percent having a third dose.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Review of rapid ART features to reduce time to ART from 7 to 1.6 days, including pre-visit benefits navigation, manufacturer discount cards, prescribing to in-house pharmacies, email distribution lists, and post-prescriptive follow-up.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Description of methods to implement data tools and best practices for continued client enrollment in RWHAP Part B, including steps being taken to make data driven decisions to improve patients’ access, engagement and health outcomes across our care continuum.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Review of a 12-month clinical telePrEP program for rural South Carolina residents, which evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of PrEP delivered through a telehealth model.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Cancer-related mortality accounted for 10% of deaths among PWDH, in New Jersey from 2000-2018. The most common cancers were non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (ADC) and lung cancer (non-ADC),ranked as number 1 and 2, followed by of colo-rectal, liver cancer, and KS, in 2015 to 2018.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Oral health of RWHAP participants remains a critical area of unassessed unmet need. Normative data needs and SWOT analyses indicated need for process improvement strategies involving providers for better data quality. Voluntary oral health data reporting is a key barrier to understanding/tracking the oral health status of RWHAP participants.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Comparison of those retained in care and not retained in care, using 2019 CAREWare data, which identified concerning health outcomes for those not retained.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
The U.S. opioid epidemic has significant impact on rates of overdose deaths among people with HIV. The aim of the project was to leverage the PDSA methodology to enhance a population-based, health information technology, intervention to facilitate the identification and panel management of high-risk clients with opioid use disorder.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource updated 03/06/2024
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 03/18/2024
Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 03/19/2024
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
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
The HRSA-supported Rural Health Information Hub has developed the Rural HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Toolkit, with 7 modules covering HIV/AIDS basics, program models and additional resources.
Learn More About the Rural Health Information Hub website in this video.
Resource updated 08/31/2022
Resource updated 08/30/2022