Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Ryan White Community Collaborative
Effi Barry Training Institute’s Virtual Provider Summit
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
Learning 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
