Resource Library
This is the main resource library landing page. It should show all current resources.
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Medicare and People with HIV
Medicare, the second largest source of federal spending on care and treatment for people with HIV, will likely play an increasingly important role for these individuals as they age, due to treatment effectiveness and as new infections continue to occur.
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The Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS
This page from HIV.gov outlines just some of the ways the ACA has improved access to coverage for people with or at risk for HIV.
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ADAP Directory
This one stop online center for ADAP resources provides information on better decision making for HIV related care, timely updates on HIV related medication, and assistance for advocates and medical staff.
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Older Adults with HIV/AIDS: A Growing Population
With its extensive experience providing services to meet the need of a growing, and increasingly diverse, population, ACL’s aging network plays an important role in the lives of older adults across the country.
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Aging with HIV: Best Practices
A conversation with with Dr Katherine Promer, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California San Diego Medical Center, where she provides primary care to people with HIV about what clinicians need to know when working with and aging population of people living with HIV.
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Optimizing HIV Care for People Aging with HIV
This reference guide identifies commonly occurring health care and social needs of people aging with HIV and highlights the screenings and assessments for these needs.
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National HIV Curriculum: HIV in Older Adults
The shift of the HIV epidemic to increasingly involve older persons highlights several health care needs: (1) medical care systems with the capacity to provide clinical services for a large cohort of older persons with HIV, (2) active screening programs to detect HIV in older persons, and (3) implementation of strategies to prevent forward transmission of HIV from older persons.
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HIV and Aging: Double Stigma
Older people living with HIV may experience intersectional stigma resulting from HIV and ageism. The current review summarizes the scientific literature and focuses on social isolation and lack of social support as key factors in experiencing HIV-related and aging-related stigma.
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The Science of Aging: Lessons for HIV at the Interface of Commonality and Heterogeneity
CROI Presentation: “20 years Difference between HIV + vs HIV- in this chart’ – “These things are Happening A lot Earlier for PWH than they should be, by 20 years. I would expect 80 year olds to have this level of syndromes, but these PWH are still 60 yrs old or younger.”
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HIV Clinical, Comorbid, and Social Determinants of Health are Linked with Brain Aging
Findings indicate that comorbid and social determinants of health are associated with brain aging in people with HIV, alongside traditional HIV metrics such as viral load and CD4 cell count, suggesting the need for a broadened clinical perspective on healthy aging with HIV, with additional focus on comorbidities, lifestyle changes, and social factors.
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Integrating Frailty and Functional Outcomes into Clinical Trials
Considerations of frailty and functional outcomes for better integration and representation of aging patients in clinical trials.
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Inflamm-aging: Effects of Chronic Inflammation with HIV
Advances in Antiretroviral therapy (ART) allow people with HIV to live longer with fewer medications. Join us as Dr. Peter Hunt details the connection between chronic inflammation and HIV infection and discusses care considerations and emerging research.
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PrEP Education for Youth-Serving Primary Care Providers Toolkit
The PrEP Education for Youth-Serving Primary Care Providers Toolkit is the only toolkit to date focused on supporting PCPs in providing PrEP to youth.
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Black Women and PrEP Toolkit
This Toolkit is a product of conversations with Black women about PrEP and how to raise their awareness of PrEP through multi-faceted, innovative, and intentional approaches.
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Talk to Your Doctor About PrEP
This brochure is a great starter resource to prepare PrEP seekers for asking their clinical provider about getting a PrEP prescription.
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Community Mapping and Identifying Priority Populations for HIV Prevention and Care
This 2023 Community Mapping Toolkit for D.C. Organizations details how visualizing health disparities can help outreach programs for HIV prevention. The toolkit explores how community mapping can support your work, what goes into creating a community map, and how to use mapping tools that are available online.
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Differentiated Service Delivery Models Have Comparable Effectiveness to Standard of Care in HIV
Differentiated service delivery (DSD) models were able to provide comparable effectiveness in treating people with HIV as the standard of care (SoC) when it came to maintaining care and viral suppression, according to a review published in Reviews in Medical Virology.
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Sexual Health Resources for Clients who Engage in Sex Work
This resource from the Effi Barry Training Institute provides an overview of the state of STIs and HIV in DC, along with strategies to facilitate safe sex practices and eradicate stigma in relation to sex and sex work.
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STI Awareness Week 2023 Twitter Chat
Read the transcript of our Twitter Chat on STI Awareness Week at the hashtag #STIWeekChat.
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HIV: A personal story
University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine spoke to one of Associate Professor Lucy Dorrell’s patients about her experiences discovering that she was HIV+.
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Transitional Care Coordination: From Jail Intake to Community HIV Primary Care
This intervention is part of the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions project—the first SPNS project of its kind to apply a rigorous implementation science approach and evaluate intervention replication and fidelity of evidence-informed intervention models across the country.
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Understanding and sharing your HIV status stories
Hear from people with HIV about how they learned that they had HIV, how they felt, and how they decided to share their status with other people.
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AHEAD: Linkage to HIV Medical Care
This page describes the Linkage to HIV Medical Care indicator data which informs the EHE AHEAD dashboard.
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Healthy People 2030: Increase Linkage to HIV Medical Care
This data visualization dashboard from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides an interactive snapshot of the road to increased linkage to HIV care.
