Demonstrating AETC Program Impact: A Regression Analysis of Clinical Expertise and Training Exposure Over Time
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The Women Informational Network (WIN) micro-grant initiative supports grassroots, women-led, community-based organizations and leaders conducting innovative approaches that reduce isolation and stigma for women of color with HIV, with a special emphasis placed on women with HIV living in rural areas and ‘resource deserts’ not connected to care.
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In this workshop, participants will gain resources and strategies for implementing community engagement programs, including training community health workers to be part of a health care team to enhance viral suppression and management of HIV in rural populations.
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Community Health Worker (CHW) models are a strategy to reduce inequities in HIV. This presentation will describe an evaluation of 397 CHW program participants, with findings on the impact on barriers to care and clinical outcomes, as well as the relationship among unmet needs, CHW encounters, and clinical outcomes.
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Project Consumer Access and Adherence to Care for HIV (CAATCH) is a Part D clinical quality initiative. Utilizing peers as partners, a series of health education sessions are delivered to make improvements on the HIV care continuum in engagement and viral suppression.
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Alliance for Positive Change, a New York City community-based organization, will present its pioneering peer training and workforce development initiatives that create opportunities for low-income New Yorkers with shared, lived experiences to re-enter the workforce. Additionally, presenters will provide an overview of the proven health and psychosocial benefits of returning to work for people with HIV.
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People with HIV can experience disabling comorbidities that limit their ability to access HIV services, resulting in potential discrimination and negative health outcomes. This session will include a summary of federal protections for people with disabilities and how providers can address barriers to care caused by comorbidities.
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This workshop will provide a description of trauma-informed approaches and strategies and practical steps for health departments and HIV providers/agencies to develop and operationalize a plan for delivering trauma-informed care and treatment services to people with HIV.
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The Howard University National HIV Curriculum Integration Project (H-NIP) is expanding the HIV clinical workforce by assisting medical, nursing, pharmacy and other health profession programs at historically black colleges and universities to integrate the National HIV Curriculum e-Learning Platform into their education and training curricula.
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The Clinician Consultation Center receives calls regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in conception, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. The session will focus on the organization’s experience, as well as current data and expert opinion, to discuss best practices for HIV prevention in pregnancy and breastfeeding.
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The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) provide a network of regional and national centers that are providing education and disseminating best practices, guidelines, and interventions to build workforce capacity within health care and other settings to operationalize and support the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative.
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The Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education & Training Center ACCESS program is designed to build community-level capacity for HIV treatment of high-need, medically underserved, minority populations in the Northeast/Caribbean region at both the individual and site levels. This presentation describes the program and its impact from the coordinator, trainer, and participant perspectives.
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The MidAtlantic AETC Practice Transformation Project (MAAETC PTP) focuses on 11 Ryan White clinics and federally qualified health centers in the region. Through the MAAETC PTP, multiple clinics showed key improvements in areas focused on by the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, namely increasing HIV testing rates, improving linkage to care, and the implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis.
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The U.S./Mexico border region has some of the nation’s poorest health outcomes. The US/Mexico Border AETC Steering Team (UMBAST) has provided HIV-related training with multiple federally funded training centers for 15 years. This workshop will share UMBAST’s resources, lessons learned, best practices, and future plans.
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The initiation of individualized support groups for people with HIV has shown significant improvements in viral load suppression rates for participants. Baseline viral suppression rates measured at group enrollment were 35.5% (n=31). Viral suppression rates for the end of the year showed 100% of participants being suppressed (n=31).
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This workshop presents results from three recent health care provider survey rounds and reviews the literature showing the negative impact of intersecting stigmas on quality of care. Participants will explore the universal presence of implicit bias and learn how managing such bias can improve patient engagement in continuous care.
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The Regional AIDS Education Training Centers (AETC) Program’s Practice Transformation (PT) and Interprofessional Education (IPE) projects provide training to organizations to increase providers’ and pre-professional providers’ capacity to deliver patient-centered, team-based care. This workshop will focus on the outcomes and implementation experience of hands-on training and coaching activities provided through PT and IPE.
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