Lack of treatment for mental health conditions and substance use disorders, homelessness, language barriers, and difficulties with transportation can all impede engagement in HIV care. In this second of three sessions, participants will learn about team-based approaches to HIV care that aim to overcome these and other common obstacles to viral suppression.
Learning Resources — HIV/STI Treatment and Prevention
Infectious Disease Risks and Management Post-disaster: Implications for Patients with HIV at Health Centers
This webinar will explore the increased infectious disease risks that arise after a disaster, with a particular focus on how these risks impact patients with HIV. We will discuss the critical role health centers play in managing and mitigating these risks, with best practices for ensuring that patients with HIV continue to receive the care and support they need in the aftermath of a disaster.
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Medical Interventions to Support Virological Suppression for HIV
In the first of three interactive session, participants will learn about barriers to virologic suppression among people with HIV and review multiple medical innovations that can promote virologic suppression. Participants will be able to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different single tablet regiments for HIV treatment and discuss strategies for implementation of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy.
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Aging, HIV, and Primary Care at Health Centers Session 2
This two-part webinar series will explore the unique healthcare needs of aging individuals living with HIV and provide primary care providers with strategies to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care. Attendees will learn how to address the complex medical, social, and psychological challenges that arise as people with HIV age, and how to integrate HIV care with general aging-related health concerns.
Aging, HIV, and Primary Care at Health Centers Session 1
This two-part webinar series will explore the unique healthcare needs of aging individuals living with HIV and provide primary care providers with strategies to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care. Attendees will learn how to address the complex medical, social, and psychological challenges that arise as people with HIV age, and how to integrate HIV care with general aging-related health concerns.
Supporting HIV and SUD Care Retention through Community Outreach and Mobile Health Care Units
Join the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) for a webinar highlighting street medicine and mobile units as a promising practice for HIV and SUD retention.
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STI Care Demonstration Videos
These videos highlight best practices in sexually transmitted infection (STI) care. They feature modeled patient-provider conversations on key topics, including delivering a new HIV diagnosis, initiating post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), discussing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and introducing doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP).
Barriers and Facilitators to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Health Centers
While PrEP is highly effective at preventing HIV infection and has been available for more than 10 years, many people who might benefit from taking it have not received a prescription. Through focus groups with health centers across the United States, The Fenway Institute and the Bureau of Primary Health Care identified barriers and facilitators to PrEP use. A lack of provider knowledge about PrEP, discomfort discussing sexual behavior, patients’ negative perceptions of PrEP, financial and staffing limitations, medical mistrust, and low health literacy all impeded PrEP access. However, focus group participants also identified multiple strategies to ease PrEP use, including provider training and resources, visit templates that include sexual history questions, patient outreach and education through trusted community members, and use of telemedicine.
HIV Prevention for Cisgender Women, Transgender Men, and All People Assigned Female at Birth
Cisgender women, transgender men, and all people assigned female at birth continue to be affected by HIV, both nationally and globally. In 2019, 6,897 HIV infections were diagnosed among cisgender women, and 46 were diagnosed among transgender men, with significant disparities by race. Among people assigned female at birth who have HIV, those who identify as Black or African American are disproportionately affected.
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Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Impact on LGBTQIA+ People
Presented by Dr. Kevin Ard in collaboration with the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, this webinar will update health centers on responding to outbreaks of syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections among MSM in their communities. Discussions will include culturally responsive, evidence-based screening, testing, treatment, and outreach in coordination with public health departments.
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