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Webinars • 07/27/2023
Resources • 04/15/2024
Best Practices • 05/22/2023
Webinars • 05/09/2023
Best Practices • 04/27/2023
Conference Presentations • 04/14/2023
Best Practices • 04/10/2023
Resources • 04/12/2024
Best Practices • 03/31/2023
Best Practices • 03/30/2023
Resources • 03/28/2023
Best Practices • 03/20/2023
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Best Practices • 03/03/2023
Best Practices • 01/06/2023
Best Practices • 12/28/2022
Conference Presentations • 12/19/2022
Conference Presentations • 04/14/2023
Webinars • 07/27/2023
HRSA/CDC review of the HIV Integrated Prevention and Care Plan Summary Statement, CY 2022-2026.
Resources • 04/15/2024
Instructions on how all Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part B recipients can access, complete, and submit the RWHAP Part B Expenditures Report.
Best Practices • 05/22/2023
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services collaborated with RWHAP Part B-funded medical case managers to improve care and outcomes for clients following Franklin Covey’s 4 Disciplines of Execution: 1) focus on the wildly important goal; 2) act on the lead measures; 3) keep a compelling scoreboard; and 4) create a cadence of accountability. Through intensive case management, regular monitoring, and feedback sessions, the state's RWHAP Part B program's overall viral suppression rate increased from 88.9% in 2020 to 90.4% by December 2021.
Webinars • 05/09/2023
Annual RWHAP Part A and B recipient training, presented by the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Reporting Requirements Workgroup, within HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.
Best Practices • 04/27/2023
The Louisiana Public Health Information Exchange is a bidirectional exchange that connects hospital system electronic health records with state surveillance data. Providers use the exchange to identify and relink people with HIV who are out of care to clinical and supportive services. Since LaPHIE was implemented in 2009, thousands of people with HIV who were out of care have been identified, with a significant number being successfully linked to care.
Conference Presentations • 04/14/2023
Opportunity for RWHAP Part B EHE recipients to share and discuss effective approaches to linkage to care, designing successful messaging campaigns and implementing Rapid Start.
Best Practices • 04/10/2023
The Enhanced Patient Navigation for Women of Color with HIV intervention uses patient navigators, who are non-medical staff in clinical settings, to reduce barriers to health care and optimize care. The intervention was effective in improving linkage to and retention in care, as well as viral suppression.
Resources • 04/12/2024
Instructions on how RWHAP Part B recipients on the RWHAP Part B PTR.
Best Practices • 03/31/2023
The Navigator Case Management intervention helps people with HIV who are incarcerated and are leaving to return to the community. The intervention uses harm reduction, case management, and motivational interviewing techniques to promote healthy behaviors. Enhanced case management including peer support and connection to other needed services both immediately before and after release supports increased linkage to and retention in HIV care for people transitioning to the community from jail.
Best Practices • 03/30/2023
Link-Up Rx is a pharmacy-data-based Data to Care program implemented by the Detroit Health Department in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and a specialty pharmacy. Using pharmacy data to identify clients in need of follow-up greatly reduced the amount of time for clients to appear on “not in care” lists compared to traditional D2C approaches. Protocols for a three-tiered outreach and reengagement approach were developed to connect clients back to antiretroviral therapy and HIV care following a missed pharmacy pick-up. Nearly half of identified clients were linked back to their pharmacy or other HIV medical services.
Resources • 03/28/2023
Toolkit to assist health departments, specifically RWHAP Part B and ADAPs, to prepare succession plans for staff as they take on new roles.
Best Practices • 03/20/2023
LA Links is a combined data-to-care and client navigation approach that cross-references routinely collected HIV surveillance data with other secondary data sources to identify and locate people with HIV who are not in care, as well as those who are in care, but with high viral loads. Originally implemented in 2013 as part of the Care and Prevention in the United States Demonstration Project, LA Links improved linkage to care, reengagement in care, and viral suppression. Louisiana expanded the program statewide in 2016.
Best Practices • 03/20/2023
MORE focuses on people who are not virally suppressed and/or who have not attended an HIV medical appointment in six months. Participants can choose from one of three MORE programs, depending on the intensity of services they want. Based on initial evaluation findings, participants who received more intensive MORE services were more likely to be virally suppressed and less likely to be lost to follow-up than those who received less intensive services.
Best Practices • 03/20/2023
TAVIE Red is a mobile application that aims to improve retention in HIV care and address social determinants of health. It helps case managers connect with clients and uses gamification, a technique with elements of gameplay such as earning points and completing quests, to increase engagement with HIV care and psychological self-care management tools. TAVIE Red participants overwhelmingly reported that the technology helped them manage their HIV diagnosis.
Best Practices • 03/03/2023
The HIV Clinical Pharmacist Services intervention shortens the time between referral to and engagement in care by allowing newly referred clients to see pharmacists in addition to other clinical providers for their initial appointment. This intervention is supported by findings from a retrospective cohort study that took place from 2013 to 2017 at a RWHAP-funded clinic. In addition to significantly decreasing the time between referral and initial visit, clients who saw a pharmacist also experienced shortened time to antiretroviral therapy initiation and viral suppression compared to those who only saw non-pharmacist providers.
Best Practices • 01/06/2023
The Max Clinic, located within the University of Washington’s Harborview Medical Center complex in Seattle, offers walk-in services and incentives to clients reengaging in HIV care, especially those who have not been well served by the traditional health care model—including clients who are experiencing homelessness, or who have mental health and substance use issues. The Max Clinic offers rapid antiretroviral therapy, incentives, a flexible clinical model, and access to comprehensive support services. Max Clinic clients were significantly more likely to reach viral suppression after 12 months than a comparable control group.
Best Practices • 12/28/2022
This data-to-care (D2C) initiative, implemented by the San Francisco Department of Public Health and its affiliated clinics from 2015–2017, used three sources of data to identify people not in care: HIV surveillance data, healthcare provider referrals, and electronic health record (EHR) data. LINCS navigators then used disease intervention searching tools and EHR data to locate clients and connect them to an HIV care provider. LINCS navigators followed up with clients for 90 days to support engagement in care. LINCS participants were more likely to be retained in care and virally suppressed after the intervention than before.
Conference Presentations • 12/19/2022
Strategies and considerations in successful succession planning. Presentation from the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Division of State HIV/AIDS Programs (DSHAP) Business Day Meeting at the 2022 RWC.