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Description
Join Rural Medical Education (RME) Collaborative and the Southeast AETC for Part 2 of a two-part series on HIV Prevention in rural and underserved areas of the South.
Objectives
- Apply best practices for routine sexual history taking to identify patients who may be at risk for HIV acquisition in rural and underserved clinical settings
- Use patient-centered communication strategies to assess HIV risk and counsel appropriate patients about PrEP as an effective HIV prevention option
- Assess the clinical evidence on the efficacy, safety, and dosing profiles of available and emerging PrEP formulations
- Incorporate current guideline recommendations for initiating, monitoring, and discontinuing PrEP in patients at risk for HIV acquisition
- Identify key structural and social barriers that affect PrEP uptake, adherence, and persistence among patients in rural and underserved communities
- Implement practical, patient-centered strategies within primary care settings to improve access to PrEP and support long-term engagement in HIV prevention
Speakers
Onyema E. Ogbuagu, MBBCh, FACP, FIDSA – Chair
Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pharmacology
Director, Antivirals and Vaccines Research Program
Yale School of Medicine
Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases
Yale New Haven Health, Yale Medicine
New Haven, CT
Cody A. Chastain, MD, MEHP, FACP, FIDSA – Moderator
Associate Professor
Viral Hepatitis Program
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Vanderbilt Health
Nashville, TN
For inquiry, contact [email protected]