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Syphilis: “I’m Still Here.”

Prevention and Treatment of Syphilis

Syphilis cases continue to increase throughout the US and are at an all-time high. This on-demand webinar provides an overview of best practices for prevention of syphilis, syphilis screening, recognizing the stages of syphilis, and proper treatment protocols.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Recognize the stages of syphilis.
  • Identify syphilis screening recommendations for specific populations. 
  • Explain syphilis testing procedures and algorithms.
  • Describe syphilis prevention and treatment recommendations.

Continuing education credits are available for this session.

Faculty: 
Tyson R. Anderson, MPH, MSN, CRNP
Tyson R. Anderson is a Clinical Registered Nurse Practitioner providing HIV primary care and other sexual health services at Us Helping Us. Prior to working at Us Helping Us, Tyson spent 14 years at Jefferson County Department of Health providing routine sexual health care visits, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), non-occupational post exposure prophylaxis (nPEP), and hepatitis C evaluation and treatment.

HIV and the Latino/a/x Community

The Latino/a/x community is made up of diverse populations who often experience barriers to accessing equitable HIV care and services. This leads to poorer health outcomes and rates of retention in care among these populations. Culturally-responsive strategies can help providers break down systemic barriers in order to increase engagement in care.

This webinar will equip providers with a comprehensive understanding of Latino/a/x culture, the barriers to testing and access to care that Latino/a/x people encounter, and best practices for engaging this community in HIV services.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:

  • Discuss the Latino/a/x demographic and the composition of the population.
  • Identify the social determinants of health and their impacts on the Latino/a/x community when accessing HIV services.
  • Describe best practices to create and develop new initiatives to reach the Latino/a/x community.
  • Describe techniques to engage Latina women and girls in accessing HIV services, testing, and care.  

NOTE: This session does NOT offer continuing education credits.

Faculty: Yelitza Lemoine, CAN Community Health

El VIH y la Comunidad Latina/x: Creación de una solución para el acceso a la atención

La comunidad latina/x está formada por diversas poblaciones que a menudo experimentan barreras para acceder a una atención y unos servicios para el VIH equitativos. Esto conduce a peores resultados de salud y tasas de retención en la atención entre estas poblaciones. Las estrategias culturalmente sensibles pueden ayudar a los proveedores a derribar las barreras sistémicas con el fin de aumentar la participación en la atención.

Este seminario web proporcionará a los proveedores una comprensión exhaustiva de la cultura latina, las barreras a las pruebas y el acceso a la atención que encuentran las personas latinas y las mejores prácticas para involucrar a esta comunidad en los servicios relacionados con el VIH.

Nota: Créditos de educación continua no están disponibles para esta sesión.

Facultad: Yelitza Lemoine, CAN Community Health

Objetivos de aprendizaje:
Al finalizar esta sesión, usted podrá:

  • Discutir la demografía latina/x y la composición de la población.
  • Identificar los determinantes sociales de la salud y sus impactos en la comunidad latina al acceder a los servicios de VIH.
  • Describir las mejores prácticas para crear y desarrollar nuevas iniciativas para llegar a la comunidad latina/x. 
  • Describir técnicas para involucrar a las mujeres y niñas latinas en el acceso a los servicios, las pruebas y la atención del VIH.

The Provider Perspective: Prioritizing the Uptake and Engagement of PrEP in BIPOC Communities

This session provides participants with an overview on primary PrEP care and the challenges providers can face with access, adherence, and retention in Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the importance of increasing PrEP utilization among BIPOC Communities. 
  2. Summarize  PrEP formulations and guidelines. 
  3. Describe patient and provider concerns regarding PrEP use. 
  4. Identify barriers and opportunities to engage and retain BIPOC communities in PrEP uptake.

Faculty:
Dr. Tyris Ford, DNP, NP-C, FNP-BC, AAHIVS

Ending the HIV Epidemic by Being the Change You Seek

This webinar provides participants with an overview of HIV criminalization laws and data, along with strategies for combating HIV stigma and advocating for decriminalization.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:

  • Define HIV criminalization and identify the data that is most alarming.
  • Explain five reasons why criminalization is a problem.
  • Describe the nuances of strategy vs. implementation in legislative success.

About the Speaker:

Living with Black Girl Magic, HIV, and chronic optimism, Kamaria Laffrey serves nationally as a speaker, advocate, and Co-Managing Director for HIV policy reform with The SERO Project, and a spokesperson for treatment adherence and self-care campaign Positively Fearless with Janssen. Her local work extends to rural and underserved areas, as she serves on the FL Dept. of Health Community HIV Advisory Group and is a member of the West Central FL Ryan White Care Council. She also co-leads the FL HIV Justice Coalition to modernize laws that criminalize Floridians for their HIV status. In these roles, Kamaria believes that when she represents PLHIV she is lifting Black women living with HIV, their presence is visible, and their power is not denied.

Please note that continuing education credits are not available for this session.

Winter Wellness: Reimaging Mental Health

Healthcare providers have continued to experience worsening mental health symptoms, which can be exacerbated during the holiday season. This offering reimagines mental health as an essential component of whole-body wellness, identifies coping strategies to re-set, refocus and refresh, and provides an understanding of people-centered resources.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Examine the importance of mental health in expanding providers’ overall health and quality of life
  2. Explore communication tools, self-care strategies, and coping techniques to counter holiday stressors
  3. Identify community and workplace resources to reduce stress, improve mental health, and provide healthy options for self-care.

Faculty:
Ebony Johnson, A Drop of Prevention

HIV 101

This presentation covers the myths and facts about HIV and AIDS in Washington, DC and serves as an introduction to those new to the topic.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Define HIV and AIDS
  2. Describe how HIV affects the body
  3. Identify the different types of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV
  4. Describe the prevalence of HIV in the U.S. and in DC specifically among specific subpopulations
  5. List the routes by which HIV can and cannot be transmitted
  6. Define harm reduction techniques to reduce the risk of HIV transmission
  7. List the three types of HIV tests and how they are used

Faculty:
Corey Howell, CHES®

TargetHIV Ryan White Library

TargetHIV maintains these topical collections of training and implementation tools for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

Guidance on Completing the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR)

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Services Report (RSR) is a client-level data reporting requirement that monitors the characteristics of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts recipients, providers, and clients served. All Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Parts A-D-funded recipients and their contracted service providers (subrecipients) are required to report client-level data annually to the HIV/AIDS Bureau through the RSR.