Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Ryan White Community Collaborative

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Effi Barry Training Institute’s Virtual Provider Summit 

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice registered nurses, registered nurses, social workers and other healthcare providers engaged in the care of patients with HIV.

Faculty

Michael Shankle

Senior Director of Capacity Building

Frank Hawkins, MS, ICGC-1, Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement, AIDS Delaware

Julia Hidalgo, ScD, MSW, MPHChief Executive Officer, Positive Outcomes, Inc.

Hanna Tessema, MPH, MSWTraining Consultant

Monica Ruiz, PhD, MPHAssociate Professor, George Washington University

Emmanuel Oppong-Adjei, MPHTrainer Educator III, Delaware Division of Public Health

Tamara Henry, EdDAssistant Teaching Professor, George Washington University

Natella Rakhmanina, MD, PhD, FAAP, FCP, AAHIVSProfessor with Tenure, George Washington University

 

Educational Objectives:

Session: Systems Coordination & Development

Identify the correlation and significance of HIV Continuum of Care and System Coordination

Define the gaps in service for PLWHA

Discuss the importance of communication between the various “systems”

Examine key standards of operation (SOPs) between various service providers

Session: Conducting a Gap Analysis

Discuss the framework for conducting a gap analysis in conducting Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE): A Plan for America activities in designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving HIV prevention and care services.

Examine HIV cascades to identify and interpret gaps in HIV Care Continuum.

Identify timely, accurate data sources to improve the accuracy of prevention and care cascades and gap analyses.

Apply prevention and care cascade data to design regional, local, agency-specific and population-specific cascades and gathering data to compute them.

Session: Building Organizational Capacity & Developing Leadership

Define organizational capacity

Practice assessing capacity

Discuss the building blocks of organizational readiness and partnership building

Compare the difference between leadership and management

Session: HIV Program Implementation & Improvement

Specify the specific Behavioral Objectives and Health Objectives associated with their programs

Identify the data that are needed to determine if their programs are successful in achieving the Behavioral and Health Objectives

Identify the data necessary to measure successful program implementation

Identify the areas in which program implementation can be improved

Identify the data necessary to determine successful program improvement

Session: Data Collection & Sharing

Brainstorm types of data most important to HIV/AIDS programs

Identify common data needs that would affect optimal client care

Discuss barriers to data collection and sharing

Explore protocols for your program to support data collection and sharing

Session: Leveraging Program Income to End the Epidemic

Identify what program income is and how it is generated under by Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) awards

Discuss when and how to spend program income

Discuss tracking and reporting program income earned and expended

Identify HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) requirements and resources regarding Policy Clarification Notice (PCN) 15-03 and related frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Determine with Federal requirements related to program income

Identify at least three methods for generating, accounting for, and reporting program income

Session: Population Engagement & Targeted Testing

Identify effective strategies to engage focus populations

Discuss the process for engaging focus populations

Review evidence based strategies that have been successful in focus populations

Session: Advancing HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment

Describe recent dynamics in the epidemiology of HIV infection regionally and nationally

Identify the principles of modern approaches to the HIV prevention

Identify the data sources necessary to determine whether or not structural factors affect program utilization by clients

Summarize current approaches to the HIV care and treatment

Apply the latest updates in the US HHS HIV prevention and treatment guidelines

Session: Care Coordination to Reach Viral Suppression

Identify sustained viral suppression as an ultimate goal of HIV management

Review current state of the HIV care continuum and viral suppression in the USA and Washington, DC metropolitan area

Identify factors associated with the failure to achieve viral suppression

Apply principles of care coordination to reach and sustain viral suppression into practice

Session: Treatment & Wellness Support to Reduce New Infections

Describe PrEP & TasP

Discuss the DC plan to end the epidemic

Explore HIV wellness and prevention measures

Become familiar with best practices for reducing new HIV infections

 

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and HealthHIV. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician Continuing Medical Education

The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Continuing Physician Assistant Education

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 10.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Continuing Nursing Education

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 10.5 contact hours.

Continuing Social Worker Education

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 10.5 clinical continuing education credits.

CHES

Sponsored by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 10.5 total Category I contact education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 10.5. Provider ID# 101879. Full attendance required to receive credit.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.

Faculty

The faculty presenters have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Planners and Managers

The PIM planners and managers have nothing to disclose. The HealthHIV planners and managers have nothing to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Request for Credit

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