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PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV, yet PrEP use among women is very low. Barriers that women face include lack of awareness, negative experiences with providers, lack of confidence that providers know about PrEP, adherence to a PrEP regimen, and negative responses from partners.
This webinar will highlight the importance of engaging women in HIV prevention at each stage of life, including strategies for engagement and barriers to care.
During this webinar, participants will gain a nuanced understanding of how culture influences an individual’s health and well-being. The presentation will equip participants with the knowledge and tools to identify cultural factors in healthcare settings while also addressing their complex implications and outcomes.
Stigma is one of the biggest challenges in HIV prevention and care. The negative, often subliminal, impact of stigmatizing language can leave people living with HIV feeling “less-than.” Stigmatization can be eliminated through the combined efforts of clinical and non-clinical staff, the community, and even patients by learning and integrating improved terminology.
This thought-provoking webinar addresses stigmatizing language used when talking about HIV, mental health, and substance use disorders and how this language perpetuates bias in the workplace.
Using intersectionality as an analytic lens highlights the multiple nature of individual identities and how varying combinations of class, gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship categories can differentially affect the health outcomes of individuals. This webinar discusses overlapping identities and experiences that can affect health outcomes and strategies for achieving health equity.
This course describes the Services standards elements and expectations all Ryan White service providers are to follow when implementing Hospice Services. Service Standards define the minimal acceptable levels of quality in service delivery and to ensure that a uniformity of service exists in the Washington, DC Eligible Metropolitan Area (EMA).
In most settings, men are less engaged in healthcare services and have worse health outcomes than women. Strategies aimed at engaging men in healthcare have proven effective. This webinar will provide an overview of common health issues among men, how to engage and empower men to take control of their health, and strategies to overcome barriers to care for men.
Tyris D. Ford, DNP, NP-C, FNP-BC
TNJ Direct Primary Care, LLC
Jerry Washington, Heart to Hand
Lawerency Boone, DC Health
Corrie Franks, Family Medical and Counseling Services
Pablo Moulden, Nova Salud
This webinar explores the role of community health workers (CHWs) in improving health outcomes. The faculty will review strategies for integrating CHWs into clinical teams, effective communication and collaboration with CHWs, and best practices for supervision and training. Participants will also learn about the potential benefits and challenges of integrating CHWs into the clinical workforce. By participating in this webinar, healthcare professionals will gain the necessary skills to effectively collaborate with CHWs and improve healthcare access and outcomes for their patients.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach designed to support people who are working on making behavioral changes. Providers can use MI skills to help clients identify their reasons for making these changes, empowering them with insights necessary for successful long-term management of chronic conditions and associated lifestyle behaviors.
This interactive webinar defines, describes, and demonstrates motivational interviewing. It will present key concepts and principles of MI as a set of methods employed to help people increase intrinsic motivation by exploring and resolving ambivalence about behavioral change.
This webinar provides an overview of developmental aspects of youth that are living with HIV/AIDS, including challenges and/or barriers to prevention, treatment, and medical adherence to care.
This webinar delves into the context and state of the HIV epidemic, different forms of PrEP and PrEP formulations, how PrEP is utilized, side effects of PrEP use, and barriers to accessing methods of HIV prevention and treatment. The faculty will present case studies to illustrate these topics, and will also provide strategies for implementing biomedical interventions with the goal of furthering health equity.
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