Community Health Workers: Improving Linkage and Retention in HIV Care
March 15, 2023Ten organizations across the U.S. integrated CHWs into their multidisciplinary care teams, through Improving Access to Care: Using Community Health Workers to Improve Linkage and Retention in HIV Care, a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) initiative from 2016 to 2019.
Text Me, Girl!: Transgender-Specific Text Messaging to Support Care Engagement
March 7, 2023This package of training and implementation tools was developed to assist Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) sites and other organizations/clinics to implement the Text Me, Girl! intervention.
Behavioral Health Models to Improve HIV Health Outcomes for Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
March 6, 2023Resources to facilitate the replication or adaption of successful interventions for engaging Black MSM in HIV medical care, behavioral health care, and support services and improving their health outcomes.
Using a Multidisciplinary Approach to Improve Retention in HIV Care
March 3, 2023A hospital-based clinic affiliated with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania implemented a multidisciplinary approach to strengthen outreach to Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) clients and improve care retention. Clients served with the multidisciplinary approach had higher rates of retention in care.
Innovative HIV Care Strategies for People with HIV with Co-occurring Conditions
January 12, 2023This webinar features two interventions designed to improve linkage to and retention in care and improve health outcomes: one on integrating HIV and addiction services and one on delivery of early intervention services for persons with HIV and STI diagnoses.
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.
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.
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.
