These resources were developed using lessons learned from multiple HRSA Special Programs of National Significance (SPNS) initiatives under the Integrating HIV Innovations (IHIP) project. They are gear...
These Integrating HIV Innovative Practices (IHIP) training resources synthesize lessons learned from the federally funded, innovative Special Projects of National Significance Enhancing Linkages to H...
This resource guide summarizes effective models and best practices of linkage to care programs for people with HIV who are leaving jail or prison and reentering society. It is based on project reports...
This multi-module curriculum is designed specifically for Medical Case Managers.
This multi-module curriculum is designed for all health-care providers and covers various topics.
Webinar slides, recording, and resources. From Pacific AETC's HIV Learning Network session on linkage and retention in care for people with HIV.
Session presented by Sophy Wong, MD, AAHIVS...
The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), in partnership with the Association for Public Health Laboratories, has released Integrating HIV and HCV Testing. This toolkit i...
Intervention manuals from HRSA's Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Transgender Women of Color Initiative, detail innovative interventions to improve timely entry, engagement, and retent...
Northeast/Caribbean (NECA) AETC offers online continuing education accredited videos and monographs. Here you can watch NECA AETC lectures, complete self-study modules, and earn continuing education c...
SBIRT is an evidence-based public health approach designed to motivate patients to commit to altering patterns of alcohol and drug use and to prevent, reduce, or eliminate personal and public harms. T...
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...
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 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...
These fact sheets were developed to assist providers who have patients leaving the United States for Mexico and Central American countries. The goal of the information is to improve continuity of care...
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...
HRSA's Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions (DEII) project tested evidenced-informed Care and Treatment Interventions (CATIs) that are replicable, cost-effective, capable of producing opti...
Training slides identify why routine HIV screening is a best practice, review how to correctly interpret HIV screening and monitoring tests, and explain status neutral linkage to care.
A resource collection of tips, training materials, and evidence-based recommendations for community health workers (CHWs), and collaborative clinical team members such as peer navigators, case manager...
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...
The Transgender HIV Health Services Best Practices document is dedicated to the clients of the HIV Health Services system, the transgender community in the San Francisco Eligible Metropolitan Area, an...
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...
Summary prepared by the AETC Engagement in Care Workgroup
Summary prepared by the AETC Engagement in Care Workgroup
AETC Engagement in Care Workgroup
Demographically-related peers or lay health workers interact with at-risk populations where they live and work, establish relationsh...
AETC Engagement in Care Workgroup
Summary prepared by the AETC Engagement in Care Workgroup
Developed by the AETC Engagement in Care Workgroup
This toolkit was developed for use by AETCs and HIV clinical program staff to determine capacity building needs for engagement in care activities, and...
This infographic is a snapshot of how AETC NRC activities support and embrace the expertise of the broader AETC community and other national organizations. These interactions help bring to life - in a...
The guide synthesizes lessons learned from the federally funded Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Enhancing Access to and Retention in Quality HIV Care for Women of Color (WOC) Initiati...
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...
This manual is designed to serve as:
This report reviews a national study on the scheduling, waiting time, and access experiences of persons trying to get health care. Recommendations are provided in the way of best practices...
Illustrates how improving patient self-management can help to reduce gaps along the HIV care continuum.
This Policy Brief is a follow-up document to the 2011 WHO document, "Prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender people"...
This document provides key recommendations for implementing an HIV testing program in the oral health care setting. A more detailed guide to implementing HIV testing programs in oral health care setti...
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...
Overview of different barriers to care among people with HIV.
Presenter:
Robertson Nash, PhD (c), ACNP, BC
Nurse Practitioner,
Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic,
Department of Infectious Disease,
Vanderb...
In this short video rural clinicians and people with HIV describe the challenges of access and stigma in rural environments. Challenges include finding providers who are knowledgeable about HIV, fear...
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...
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 availability of ART immediately after the diagnosis of HIV offers many possible benefits, including earlier engagement in care and earlier HIV suppression, which may result in personal and public health benefits. Based on randomized clinical trials done in developing-world settings, the World He...
The International AIDS Society (IAS)-USA recently released its 2018 HIV treatment and prevention recommendations. The document is particularly notable for its discussion of "When to Start ART."
The IAS-USA recommends "rapid" or immediate start of ART upon diagnosis of HIV, stating that treatment "sho...
