Rapid Start: Is the South Ready? A Conversation on How It Can Be Done
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Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 12/11/2023
Timely antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation, linkage, and retention in care are critical keys for the optimal outcomes in patients with HIV infection. Implementing an open access process for medical, mental, and intensive case management care gives patients the ability to better achieve medication adherence and viral load suppression.
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North Carolina's HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis Unit, along with Western North Carolina Community Health Services and Carolina Family Health Center -- two federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) -- has initiated a pilot rapid antiretroviral treatment (ART) program utilizing carryover funds and a streamlined HIV Medication Assistance Program application process. Preliminary data will be shared on the success of the pilot program.
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This presentation will review findings and lessons learned after implementing a pilot rapid antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation protocol into an existing federally qualified health center (FQHC) setting. Presenters will describe the processes used for rapid linkage, benefits eligibility assessment, and provider appointment with ART initiation.
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This session will examine the need to offer innovative services, highlighting client success stories from Kansas City’s transitional housing and emergency gap lodging program. Each presenter will include case studies, discuss the need for their program, the goals of their program, the program set up and design, data collection, and program outcomes.
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Here you’ll explore how to leverage funding to assist clients in achieving stable housing. Learn how to access funding and assemble a budget, develop programmatic policies and procedures, collaborate and refer to other local housing resources, capture baseline data, and performance measure development to monitor progress.
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This workshop will present a summary of a one-day consultation on housing services for RWHAP clients that was convened in November 2019 and will include a listening session.
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This session will focus on key findings and behavioral considerations for long-acting antiretroviral treatment (ART) HIV regimens, given the progress in research, development, and potential approval of these drugs. There will be a brief overview of the ATLAS and FLAIR studies, discussion of the medications, and an outline of the potential impact of the regimens on care delivery models, providers, patients, and payers if they are approved.
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The Ursuline Sisters HIV/AIDS Ministry in Youngstown, Ohio, began an emergency shelter and started providing housing services for people with HIV who were homeless. This session will discuss the lessons learned, best practices, and gains made toward helping the most marginalized clients achieve viral load suppression.
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Oklahoma has been classified by the Department of Health and Human Services as one of the seven states with a high rural HIV burden. Test-and-treat protocols are feasible within high-volume HIV clinics which serve rural and underserved communities to minimize the time to the first appointment to decrease time to viral load suppression.
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Staff from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and CRI will present the fundamentals, best practices, and innovations for their clinical quality management (CQM) program that aimed to improve timely enrollment and retention in the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). The presentation will include an overview of the transition to self-attestation and how organizational change supported a quality-driven approach.
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Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program will share its innovative approach toward the micro-elimination of Hepatitis C (HCV) for homeless-experienced people with HIV. Team members will share data around cure rates, reinfection, and engaging with marginalized patients, and discuss leveraging existing Ryan White infrastructure and resources for such efforts.
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This session will discuss why youth experience unstable housing differently than adults, as well as innovative strategies for stabilizing youth in HIV care and housing. It will conclude with an interactive participant Q&A period.
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Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Unstable housing affects the ability of people with HIV to access, adhere to, and be retained in HIV medical care across the HIV care continuum. This presentation will examine adaptions made to housing and case management services in a Ryan White program to accommodate homeless and near-homeless people with HIV.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
This session will present strategies to improve viral suppression in clients experiencing unstable housing and homelessness. This includes both a recipient serving homeless clients and a RWHAP AIDS Education and Training Center that trains clinicians on strategies to serve clients experiencing homelessness. The session concludes with an interactive participant Q&A period.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023
Presenters from HRSA HAB and a recently completed SPNS initiative on homelessness among multiply diagnosed people with HIV discuss the intersection of housing instability and health and effective intervention models for this population.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023