I joined the AETC National Coordinating Resource Center (NCRC) as a Health Educator in December 2015, using my skill set as a Certified Health Educator Specialist and seasoned patient navigator/linkage to care coordinator (LTCC) to provide a perspective based on direct interaction and delivery of ca...
The prevailing opinion among experts regarding the optimal CD4 T-cell count at which to start patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) has shifted several times during the evolution of HIV treatment. These shifts reflect attempts to strike a balance between preventing HIV-associated illness and deat...
When incorporating best practices and guidelines for HIV care, clinicians must take into account their clients’ mental health and substance use needs. Approximately 30- 50% of people living with HIV/AIDS have current or past severe to moderate depression. At its highest estimate, that’s more than do...
A critical shortage of practitioners who treat HIV/AIDS patients in the United States is on the horizon. According the American Academy of HIV Medicine 32% of today’s HIV clinicians will stop providing care over the next 10 years. Nearly one-third of today’s workforce will retire leaving a shortage...
Co-Author: Susa Coffey, MD; Medical Editor, AETC National Resource Center
An open-label study is evaluating the renal safety of elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir (Stribild, or the "quad" pill) and cobicistat. For those patients with mild-to-moderate renal impairment (estimated glomerula...
Principal Investigator, New York/New Jersey AETC
About 30% of people receiving care and treatment for HIV infection have major depression. But is it best to conceptualize major depression as a mental illness or a medical illness? If you wake up in a bad mood but your body feels fine, you are very un...
Coauthor: Susa Coffey, MD; Medical Editor, AETC National Resource Center
Treatment of dyslipidemia is often complicated by drug interactions between statins and antiretrovirals. Pitavastatin is one of the newer statins approved and is one of the few that is not metabolized primarily by the CYP450 3A4...
“I learned that HIV patients are the same as other patients with chronic disease and need our attention and care.”
Despite successful uptake of initiatives to increase rapid testing in labor and delivery hospitals throughout California, several recent perinatal HIV transmission cases were identified...
The new CDC funding (associated with CDC announcement PS 10-10138) provides support for AETCs to deliver training and technical assistance coordinated through funded health departments. Although local needs may differ across sites, regional evaluators have agreed on the measureable constructs below...
