Effective Data Storytelling for HIV Service Providers
December 15, 2022Data storytelling is a powerful technique that uses narratives and visuals to communicate important data insights. From sharing program successes to applying for funding opportunities, how you talk about your program outcomes can make a world of difference.
RWHAP Provider Use of Regional HIEs to Find and Re-engage Patients in Care
December 8, 2022“Office Hours” is a technical assistance platform that allows Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipient and provider staff to talk with their peers in an informal setting about specific technical challenges and solutions. These hour-long calls will include a short presentation by a RWHAP recipient or provider about their data management approach.
Moving Beyond Data Completeness: Ensuring RSR Data Reflect Services Being Provided
December 7, 2022Summary review of the 2021 RSR data and highlights of specific areas for focused outreach. The goal of this webinar is to ensure data are not only complete, but also accurately reported to reflect the care being provided.
What is the HIV Care Continuum?
October 28, 2022This resource from HIV.gov describes the HIV care continuum, a public health model that outlines the steps or stages that people with HIV go through from diagnosis to achieving and maintaining viral suppression through care and treatment.
Providing Gender-Affirming Care
October 18, 2022Review of gender-affirming care issues, including key terminology, best practices in hormone therapy management, epidemiology of HIV in transgender populations, and strategies to improve HIV care and prevention in transgender communities.
Measuring Retention in HIV Care in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of Telehealth
October 4, 2022It is unknown how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted traditional measures of retention in HIV care. This study calculated six different retention measures at an urban HIV care clinic for two time periods: pre-pandemic, and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with and without inclusion of telehealth appointments.
ESCALATE Glossary of Terms
September 16, 2022The purpose of the ESCALATE training program is to facilitate transformative and relational change in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs (RWHAP) and the communities they serve. This is a Glossary of commonly used terms under in the ESCALATE capacity-building initiative.
Preliminary Results from a Text Messaging Outreach Initiative to Reengage People Lost to HIV Care
August 26, 2022Preliminary results from an ongoing RWHAP clinic initiative to use text messaging as a re-engagement strategy to bring lost patients back to care, which may be a more manageable and possibly equally effective re-engagement strategy when compared to phone outreach.
Harnessing Electronic Health Record Technologies to Improve Retention in HIV Care
Demonstration of how the development of a robust, HIV-specific retention module within a hospital’s the EHR (Epic) helped retention-in-care efforts and demonstrates how technology can be harnessed to retain patients in care, improve HIV care continuum outcomes, and help communities end the HIV epidemic.
Impact of COVID-19 protocols on Recruitment for an Engagement in Care Program for Returning Citizens
August 23, 2022Exploratory study to understand recruitment challenges faced by an HIV engagement in care project for Black women, incorporating constructs from the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.
DC Engage Local Resource Guide
August 5, 2022This resource guide lists organizations in Washington, DC that offer assistance in areas including housing, harm reduction, safer sex and STI testing, food, clothing, legal, health care, and social support.
Using Implementation Science to Promote Integration and Sustainability of Community Health Workers in the HIV Workforce
July 1, 2022Guided by the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment and Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance frameworks, this study describes the key determinants for CHW integration and sustainability at 3 agencies in Shelby County, TN, to improve viral suppression and reduce disparities among rural and urban people living with HIV.
