Resource Topic: HIV

Perspectives on Faith-Based HIV Outreach and Engagement for Black Communities

Faith leaders are important in addressing public health issues, including HIV prevention, treatment, and education. They are trusted, powerful influences in the community. Faith communities and faith-based organizations together can help reduce stigma by giving accurate information and supporting individuals living with HIV.

This fact sheet provides tips for HIV prevention emphasizing education and communication for faith based communities. It encourages open dialogue and community support to reduce stigma and improve care access.

HIV Prevention Certified Provider (HIVPCP) Certification Program

HealthHIV’s HIV Prevention Certified Provider Certification Program™ is a free, online, self-paced curriculum comprised of eight e-learning modules in HIV prevention. Upon completion, participants receive the HealthHIV HIV Prevention Certified Provider Certification™ and a listing in the national HIVPCP Directory.

The HealthHIV HIVPCP Certification™ demonstrates competency in interdisciplinary, multi-level strategies for HIV prevention. Participants who complete the certification program will have an understanding of the foundation of HIV epidemiology and policy in the United States, the provider’s role in identifying HIV risk and new cases, high impact strategies to prevent HIV through status-neutral-navigation, clinical guidelines to implement PrEP, and a framework of cultural humility that improves clients’ access to and retention in care.

Program Overview

  • Module 1: HIV Prevention – Epidemiology, Interventions and Strategies 
  • Module 2: HIV Testing and Assessing Risk for Short Behavioral Intervention and Referral 
  • Module 3: Maintaining Serostatus Negative and Viral Suppression – Preventing HIV Acquisition and Transmission 
  • Module 4: Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Clinical 
  • Module 5: Enhancing Cultural Humility and Understanding Barriers to Care 
  • Module 6: PrEP Adherence, Part 1 
  • Module 7: PrEP Adherence, Part 2 
  • Module 8: TelePrEP Services – Improving PrEP Access

Innovative Outreach Strategies for HIV Prevention

This webinar will describe how to implement creative outreach strategies that promote risk reduction and prevention of HIV. The faculty will discuss how to engage communities disproportionately affected by HIV while providing resources that best fit the needs of each community.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, you will be able to:

  • Identify the target population to tailor outreach events to fit the needs of the community.
  • Recognize the benefits of marketing to provide resources and assist with linkage to care services.
  • Discuss strategies to promote HIV prevention and reduce stigma during outreach events.
  • Describe methods to upscale campaigns to increase engagement.
  • Identify strategies to provide safe spaces for community members.

Mapping the Way Towards Community Assessment and Engagement

Mapping allows community members and organizations to plan better management of resources, develop and implement interventions and programs, and resolve resource conflicts. 

This offering provides an overview of the Effi Barry Community Mapping Toolkit and how mapping social determinants of health can drive HIV prevention and intervention.

Faculty: Dr. Tamara Taggert, Kate Drezner, Stacey Cooper, and Anna Bacharach

Engaging Youth in HIV Prevention and Care

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.

Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

  • Describe how youth are different from adults living with HIV.
  • Summarize approaches to support youth-friendly HIV care services.
  • Discuss developmental aspects of youth that are living with HIV/AIDS.
  • Discuss challenges and/or barriers to treatment and medical adherence for youth living with HIV/AIDS.

Faculty
Keristen Mazyck – Medical Care Manager, Ryan White Wellness Center
Keristen Mazyck is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW-CP) where she works at the Ryan White Wellness Center as a Medical Care Manager. She has worked in several capacities within the Ryan White Program for over 15 years. She is a designated HIVPCP provider and enjoys sharing her wealth of knowledge to others about effective strategies and interventions that contribute to improving health outcomes for persons living with HIV/AIDS and at-risk populations for HIV. Keristen is passionate about the youth population living with HIV as she is committed to helping them achieve quality of life through a strength-based perspective and interventions.

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.

Breaking Barriers: Biomedical Interventions Paving the Way to Ending the HIV Epidemic in the US

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.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Outline HIV and PrEP disparities in the United States.
  • Explain the importance of utilizing a status neutral approach in order to End the HIV Epidemic in the United States.
  • Summarize current HIV prevention and treatment formulations and guidelines.
  • Review common side effects of PrEP and HIV treatment.
  • Identify barriers and opportunities to increase PrEP uptake and retain persons living with HIV in care.

The Intersection of Mental Health and HIV Among Youth

People with HIV (PWH) – especially children, adolescents, and young adults – are at an increased risk for developing mental health disorders compared to those who don’t have HIV. PWH commonly internalize negative attitudes and beliefs resulting from widespread HIV stigma, which leads to poor mental health outcomes and difficulty medically managing HIV. Challenges with mental health can negatively affect engagement in medical care and adherence to medical treatment.

This webinar will increase the audience’s understanding of mental health challenges among children, adolescents, and young adults with HIV. The webinar will provide strategies for addressing particular needs and promoting overall physical and mental health.

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

  • Identify at least three common mental health challenges that children, adolescents, and young adults face when living with HIV.
  • Describe how mental health challenges can impact medical care and treatment.
  • Describe at least three ways to address the particular mental health challenges that children, adolescents, and young adults living with HIV face in order to improve their self-perceived health and reception of medical treatment.

Continuing education credits are available for this session.

Women’s Health: Strength, Wisdom, and Courage

This on-demand webinar provides an overview of prevention and treatment interventions for women living with HIV in the DC area, including identification of social services that will help to eliminate barriers to care.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Discuss qualitative data for development of population-based HIV interventions.
  • Explain HIV/STI trends among women in the DC area using surveillance reports.
  • Identify social barriers to HIV care for women.
  • Describe trauma informed approaches for women in HIV care.
  • Identify HIV support services available to women in DC.

Continuing education credits are available for this training.

Speakers: Ashley Coleman, Kate Drezner, Rosa Martinez, Daijah Tiffani Walters

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.