The HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) of HRSA has developed a series of clinical performance indicators for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-funded clinics as part of its quality improvement efforts. The AETC program...
This multi-module curriculum is designed specifically for Medical Case Managers.
This guide is designed to assist health professionals in evaluating medical and dental considerations for treating people with HIV in the era of ART. Oral health professionals play a critical role in...
Comprehensive guidelines, including:
Northeast/Caribbean (NECA) AETC on-demand videos, lectures, and self-study modules courses are available for all healthcare providers including pharmacists & oral health providers. Register for ea...
Colorado AETC of the Mountain West AETC has updated its HIV medication chart for providers and patients. This resource features all currently approved antiretroviral drugs and is available as a pad wi...
In response to newly identified, community-based HIV epidemics, the AETC NCRC has pulled together the following AETC Program and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resources for public he...
This resource was developed to help healthcare agencies to train Community Health Workers (CHW) in order to integrate them into their HIV and other primary care teams. The curriculum was developed thr...
This training slide set covers aging-related concerns for people with HIV, including management of ART. Nearly half of people with HIV in the United States are aged over 50. Topics include epidemiolog...
Three sets of training slides covering what providers treating people with HIV should know about COVID-19. Overall learning objectives include identifying risk factors for and strategies to reduce sev...
A basic overview of resistance testing and key aspects of medications used in treatment-experienced patients, review newer medications and their role in HIV treatment. Case-based examples are used to...
This series provides best practices and updates for HIV, viral hepatitis, mental health and STI treatment in the correctional setting.
(R...
Session 4 of the AETC Program HIV and SARS-CoV-2 Winter Webinar Series (recorded 1/27/21). Presenters discussed the clinical impact of HIV infection and COVID-19, analyzed the latest data on clinical...
Training slides provide an overview of Cabenuva including the latest study findings, adverse effects, resistance, and special dosing considerations.
Training slides review the latest information on HIV injectable therapies in clinical trials, the patients who might be good candidates for this treatment, and potential challenges for providers.
The HIV epidemic is an important public health priority. Transmissions continue to occur despite effective therapies that make HIV preventable and treatable. Approximately one-half of people with HIV...
Training slides cover initial antiretroviral therapy (ART) options based on the most recent HHS Adult/Adolescent Guidelines. Includes selecting the initial ART regimen considering viral load, CD4 coun...
Training slides provide updates on tuberculosis in people with HIV including prevalence, prevention, and treatment.
New England AETC's HIV Resource Library is a compilation of curated resources and education packets on HIV, viral hepatitis, and related public health topics.
Each Library topic page is an organized li...
To help HIV care providers engage patients in care and transmission prevention, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a new and comprehensive Prevention IS Care resource kit f...
Training slides provide a summary of data from the ATLAS and FLAIR studies and outlines a case for patient eligibility for long-acting injectable ART.
Training slides provide a review of the following updated sections to the US Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) Adult and Adolescent HIV Treatment Guidelines:
These presentation slides were from an annual event presented by the Pacific AETC's Arizona regional partner, California Prevention Training Center, and Curry International TB Center for Arizona-based...
Training slides review potential ARV drug-drug interactions and identify resources for the evaluation of drug-drug interactions.
Training slides define the HIV-ASSIST decision-support tool for ART selection and describe how it's used in different clinical scenarios.
Training slides describe the safety and efficacy of the Dapivirine vaginal ring for sustained delivery of ARV drugs.
Case-based training slides review new antiretroviral treatment guidelines and medications.
Training slides review the latest updates for the use of PrEP for HIV prevention in the U.S.
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended as an HIV prevention option for anyone with risks of acquiring HIV infection through sex or drug use.
PrEP IndicationsDiscuss PrEP...
Training slides review new/investigational ARTs, emphasize the clinical need for new ART options and paradigms, and review how to select newly approved ARTs for certain clinical situations.
Training slides provide an overview of the role of cabotegravir/rilpivirine injectables and other novel formulations in development for HIV treatment and prevention, and review shifting treatment para...
Training slides review the epidemiology of cardiovascular risk for people with HIV, and provide recommendations for mitigating the risks.
Case-based training slides review approaches and applications for second-line antiretroviral treatment regimens.
(Recorded 9/9/22)
HIV & Aging, Beyond Viral Suppression: HIV+ Seniors & Long-Term Survivors
Dawn Fukuda, ScM
Director, Office of HIV/AIDS
Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences
Massac...
(Recorded 9/16/22)
This multidisciplinary program for primary care teams provides updates on discussing important emerging areas of HIV medicine as they relate to today’s primary care practices...
This resource is to inform healthcare providers about CAB/RPV, the first FDA-approved long-acting injectable antiretroviral (ARV) medication for patients with HIV. The comprehensive toolkit includes r...
Each year HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau sponsors a conference for Ryan White Program clinicians to learn about advances in care and treatment. The AETC National Coordinating Resource Center and its partner,...
The continuum of engagement in HIV care is a framework for understanding the status of HIV care and treatment in the United States (Cheever 2007). An individual with HIV may go through several stages...
Immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) means starting HIV treatment as soon as possible after the diagnosis of HIV infection, preferably on the first clinic visit (and even on the same day as the HIV...
(Recorded 4/12/23)
(Recorded 4/11/23)
Recording of Grand Rounds presentation in collaboration with the Family Health Center of Worcester and the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, UMass Cha...
This digital glossary of HIV-related terms includes both lay and scientific descriptions and illustrations. Materials are in the public domain and may be used freely. The glossary and images are also...
Training slides cover HHS recommendations for treatment of transgender people with HIV. Topics include HIV-related epidemiology, barriers to care, gender affirmation, including medical gender affirmat...
Training slides covering U.S. HHS treatment recommendations related to starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people with HIV infection. Topics include initial screening, regimen selection, and char...
Recommended management strategies for HIV patients experiencing virologic failure (VF) while taking antiretroviral therapy (ART). The potential causes of VF are complex, and require careful assessment...
Training slides review the genotype versus phenotype resistance testing process; the indications for a traditional genotype, an integrase genotype, and a phenotype; and list resources to help interpre...
(Recorded 5/8/23) Although current therapy for HIV infection can be safe, simple, and durable, the burden of decades of continuous therapy remains, with the stigma and uncertainty of chronic HIV infec...
(Recorded 5/10/23)
This training reviews ways to implement a comprehensive initial visit for a person with newly diagnosed HIV including engaging in mutual decision-making regarding an antiretroviral t...
Below is a list of the newest pocket guides created by the MidAtlantic AETC. Descriptions for each resource can be found here:
Training slides review the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative and identify threats to successfully ending the epidemic in the United States.
Training slides review data on long-acting antiretrovirals (LA ART), challenges for its use, and LA ART future directions.
Training slides review how neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) develop in people with HIV, identify the potential future uses of bNAbs to prevent, treat and/or cure HIV as well as the challenges in develo...
These tables were developed to facilitate continuity of care for people living with HIV who may receive care in both the United States and Mexico. While many HIV medications are now available in both...
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The National HIV Curriculum (NHC) provides free, up-to-date content for clinicians to learn about HIV diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The 37 lessons and corresponding question bank topics offer...
Dr. Gulick reviews the latest data on the optimal treatment of HIV with antiretroviral therapy and specifically address:
(1) When to start?
(2) What to start?
(3) When to change?
(4) What to c...
Training slides provide updates and a recent systematic review of the risk of HIV transmission with low viral loads.
Recorded 9/11/23
This webinar recording reviews the latest data on the optimal treatment of HIV with antiretroviral therapy and specifically addresses:
The Pacific AETC’s HIV Learning Network (HIVLN) is a free, longitudinal tele-health HIV training and consultation program for HIV clinical care teams and individual clinicians in the Pacific Region. H...
(Recorded 8/9/23)
Presenters provide significant findings and key updates from the 24th International AIDS Conference.
Kenneth Mayer, MD
Infectious Disease Attending,
Director of HIV...
Weekly newsletter about NEAETC’s upcoming educational programming and resources...
Developed in collaboration with the New England AETC and the Primary Care Development Corporation, these short videos portray the interwoven stories of four women of color from diverse bac...
Browse recorded mini-lectures on clinically relevant topics including HIV Biology and Basic Science, Guideline Updates, Antiretroviral Medications, and Co-Infections. New content is added throughout t...
Training slides review the following topics:
After HIV diagnosis, timely entry into HIV medical care and retention in that care are essential to the provision of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART adherence is among the key determinants...
MMWR Recommendations and Reports, April 11, 2014 / 63(RR03);1-10
Following extensive consultation and peer review, CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists have revised and combined...
This guideline is a comprehensive compilation of federal recommendations about biomedical, behavioral, and structural interventions that can help reduce the risk of HIV transmission from persons with...
Approximately 7/10 people with HIV in the U.S. are not virally suppressed. This infographic illustrates some of the barriers to achieving viral load suppression, and offers suggestions and resources t...
This report, done by The Black AIDS Institute in collaboration with the CDC, the Latino Commission on AIDS, NASTAD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Janssen Therapeutics, provides...
36 evidence-based recommendations are provided for interventions to optimize the HIV care environment; increase HIV testing and linkage to care, treatment coverage, retention in care, and viral suppre...
Quick guide to oral contraceptives and HIV medications drug interactions.
Presentation slides include information and updates from CROI 2021 regarding:
(Recorded on April 12, 2021)
Paul Edward Sax, MD
Dr. Sax provides a summary of important presentations from the 2021 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. This...
This infographic identifies the social determinants and risk factors that contribute to new HIV infections among YBMSM (ages 13-24) and offers recommendations for maximizing HIV prevention strategies...
Training slides provide a summary of HIV prevention updates presented at CROI 2022, including new data on CAB-LA PrEP and other prevention modalities like islatravir, and dapivirine vagina...
Training slides review the following topics from CROI 2022:
Training slides provide an update on the epidemiology of HIV in the U.S., antiretrovirals, PrEP, the HIV “cure” case, COVID-19 prevention & treatment, and more from CROI 2022.
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...
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...
There was a pharmacokinetic study presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston in February. It evaluated concentrations of tenofovir (TFV) and TFV-diphosphate (DP) in genital and rectal tissue. Also in anogenital fluid samples after administration of oral tenofo...
Researchers at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections presented results from a randomized double-blind, double-dummy switch study of TAF/FTC. Over 660 patients with virologic suppression on TDF/FTC-containing 3-drug regimens were either switched to TAF/FTC (200/10 mg with b...
Three studies presented at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) explored the pharmacokinetics of antiretrovirals administered during pregnancy. These studies support the use of standard-dose efavirenz, once-daily dolutegravir, and BID ritonavir-boosted darunavir du...
We know that very early treatment in acute HIV infection decreases HIV RNA; this study shows it also greatly decreases proviral DNA (and reservoir size). Researchers investigated 2 small cohorts of patients in Thailand with acute (and very early) HIV infection, 1 untreated and 1 treated with ART ver...
The EMERALD Study is a Phase III, open-label, noninferiority study in which 1,141 patients with stable HIV suppression on a regimen comprising a boosted protease inhibitor plus TDF/FTC were randomized (2:1) to either switch to an investigational single-tablet regimen containing darunavir 800 mg/cobi...
The single-pill combination of bictegravir (BIC) with tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) and emtricitabine (FTC) has been shown in four Phase III trials to be effective as initial therapy.Also as a switch regimen in patients with stably suppressed HIV RNA and no resistance to BIC, TAF, or FTC. In these stu...
Bictegravir (BIC), a new integrase inhibitor, was recently approved by the FDA for use in a single-pill coformulation with TAF/FTC (brand name: Biktarvy) as initial therapy and as a switch regimen for patients who are already on a suppressive ART regimen and who have no history of treatment failure...
Treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-infected persons remains challenging, in part because of drug interactions between rifampin and some ARVs that may compromise antiretroviral therapy (ART). Three studies presented at CROI provide clinicians with additional guidance on how to manage certain inter...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a coformulation of darunavir 800 mg/cobicistat 150 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) 10 mg, to be marketed under the brand name Symtuza. DRV/COBI/FTC/TAF constitutes a complete regimen for patients with susceptible HIV, an...
Two pharmacokinetic studies from AIDS 2018 help elucidate the disposition of tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) and cobicistat-boosted darunavir during pregnancy.
The IMPAACT P1026s study examined plasma concentrations of TAF with and without cobicistat in 43 pregnant women. For women taking 25 mg of TAF da...
In April 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a combination pill comprising the integrase inhibitor dolutegravir (DTG), 50 mg, and the NRTI lamivudine (3TC), 300 mg, for use as a complete ARV regimen for initial HIV treatment of patients. The approval specifies that DTG/3TC is intend...
In July 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved fostemsavir (FTR) for treatment of people with multi-drug resistant HIV-1 whose current ARV regimen is failing because of resistance, intolerance, or safety issues. FTR is a novel attachment inhibitor that binds the HIV envelope glycoprote...
A long-acting formulation of the investigational integrase inhibitor cabotegravir (CAB) is being studied as a single agent for HIV prevention. (CAB also has been studied, in combination with long-acting rilpivirine, as treatment for people with HIV, see Long-Acting Injectable ART: Cabotegravir + Ril...
The AETC Program's new resource combines the most up-to-date, HIV screening, prevention, and care resources in one mobile app, to provide access to essential point-of-care information and expert clinical support with just one touch.
HIV Care Tools is for busy clinicians from novice-to-expert, clinic...
TANGO is a randomized open-label study in which subjects with virologic suppression on standard 3-drug TAF-based ART either switched to the 2-drug regimen of dolutegravir (DTG)/lamivudine (3TC) n = 369) or continued their baseline ART (n = 372). Previously published data showed no significant differ...
The FLAIR study evaluated the efficacy and safety of the long-acting injectable regimen of cabotegravir (CAB) + rilpivirine (RPV) in previously ART-naïve individuals who switched to CAB+RPV after viral suppression on a standard 3-drug oral regimen (dolutegravir [DTG]/ABC/3TC). At both 48 weeks (the...
Lenacapavir (LEN) is a novel investigational long-acting injectable ARV that is administered every 6 months by subcutaneous (SC) injection. It is an HIV-1 capsid inhibitor that acts at several points in the HIV life cycle. As a novel class, has full activity against viruses with resistance to the NR...
Imagine: Ending HIV. It’s Possible. is the name of a new, national campaign that launched this summer to encourage and energize the HIV workforce to achieve the national goal of ending the HIV epidemic.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services introduced the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S...
Honoring our colleagues who dedicate additional time and resources to research beyond the scope of the AETC Program, we present the updated list of HIV-related peer-reviewed studies published in 2022 by AETC-affiliated researchers and faculty.
If you're aware of other HIV-related peer-reviewed publi...
The FDA recently granted approval to lenacapavir (LEN), a novel long-acting HIV antiretroviral (ARV) that is classified as a capsid inhibitor. Lenacapavir is marketed in the United States as Sunlenca.
Lenacapavir blocks HIV-1’s assembly of its protein capsid and interferes with other steps in HIV rep...
