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SPNS Initiative: SURE Housing Initiative (2022-2026)
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32 Years: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
August 18, 2022 marks the 32nd anniversary of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.Blog updated 10/04/2022
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Viviendo Valiente: Multi-Level Intervention Linking Latinos to HIV Care
Multi-level messaging intervention focused on linking Latinos with HIV to high quality HIV primary care in Dallas County, Texas. Individual-, group- and community-level strategies.Resource updated 10/13/2023
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Text Me, Girl!: Transgender-Specific Text Messaging to Support Care Engagement
Ninetyday theory-based, transgender-specific, automated text-messaging intervention designed to improve engagement, retention, and health outcomes along the HIV care continuum.Resource updated 02/07/2024
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Providing Gender-Affirming Care
Review of gender-affirming care issues, including key terminology, best practices in hormone therapy management, epidemiology of HIV in transgender populations, and strategies to improve HIV care and prevention in transgender communities.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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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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Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): E2i
SBIRT is designed to screen clients for drug and alcohol use, educate clients on the risks of use, and connect them to substance use treatment services if necessary. SBIRT is an evidence-informed intervention that has been adapted by HIV experts in collaboration with community members to improve health outcomes among people with HIV. Two sites implemented SBIRT as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. Among the clients enrolled in SBIRT, the percentage with a prescription of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and who reached viral suppression both increased significantly.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 01/07/2024
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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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Text Me, Girl!
Text Me, Girl! is a text messaging intervention that aims to improve linkage to and retention in HIV care, increase adherence to HIV medications, and improve viral suppression and other health outcomes among transgender women ages 18–34 years. The intervention supports young transgender women with HIV, particularly those experiencing barriers to care such as periods of homelessness and/or incarceration, substance misuse, or engaging in sex work. Text Me, Girl! participation was associated with statistically significant improvements in antiretroviral therapy uptake and adherence, and self-reported viral suppression.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 04/01/2024
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After Hours Drop-In Clinic
Howard Brown Health established a specialized drop-in clinic and support groups, and implemented organizational initiatives to provide culturally relevant and gender-affirming services for transgender and non-binary people, including transgender women of color. The goal of this intervention was to optimize engagement in HIV services and primary care. From 2012-2021, the number of transgender and non-binary people served in primary care at Howard Brown Health more than tripled. In addition, after 24 months, participants were more likely to have been prescribed ART and to be virally suppressed than at baseline.Resource from the RWHAP Best Practices Compilation updated on 02/20/2024
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Women Informing Now: A Two-Year Retrospective Reducing Isolation and Stigma among Women of Color with HIV
Two-year retrospective exploring innovative approaches to reduce stigma and isolation among cis and transgender women of color with HIV, including women with HIV residing in rural areas not connected to care.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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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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Launching Chicago's First Comprehensive HIV Hub: Lessons Learned and COVID-19
Hub leaders discuss the formation of the Hub (a centralized source of a range of HIV services in the Chicago area) and the impacts of the pandemic on the communities served.
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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Utilizing Social Justice Approaches via the Roots of Health Inequity Course to Help End the HIV Epidemic
Review of activities from the Roots of Health Inequity course that demonstrate how to implement social justice approaches in public health practice that can be used within the RWHAP and context of Ending the HIV Epidemic.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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Using Data for Programming and Approaches to End the HIV Epidemic
DMHAP business meeting sessions focused on Using Data for Programming and Approaches to End the HIV Epidemic.Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
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FY24 RWHAP Part A Non-Competing Continuation Progress Report
Instructions and resources for completing the FY 2024 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part A Non-Competing Continuation Progress Report.Resource updated 09/19/2023