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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.

HRSA Ryan White Program Grants

The HRSA Ryan White Program funds grants to cities, states, counties, and community-based groups to provide HIV care and treatment.

Understanding Implicit Bias in Healthcare

Implicit biases involve associations outside conscious awareness that can lead to negative, inaccurate, or unfair evaluations of a person on the basis of identity or social status. It is important for healthcare professionals to understand implicit bias because it can influence providers’ assessments of and behavior towards their clients. Unchecked implicit biases based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and socioeconomic status can contribute to poorer health outcomes among marginalized groups of people.

This on-demand training will distinguish between explicit and implicit bias and discuss how to identify and change these biases in yourself and your colleagues.

Learning Objectives:

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

  • Explain the difference between implicit/unconscious and explicit bias.
  • Identify at least five types of bias present in healthcare.
  • Describe the effects of unconscious bias on everyday interactions with patients, students, colleagues, and team members. 
  • Describe how personal unconscious biases impact perceptions of gender, race/ethnicity, and/or cultural attributes in healthcare.
  • Provide strategies to correct or eliminate personal unconscious biases in daily interactions.