Resource Library
Our library of resources offers a wide variety of information on HIV prevention and care, capacity building and management, healthcare equity, and much more.
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Monkeypox Considerations for Sexual Health Services
This letter from the CDC Mpox team leaders addresses the current outbreak and provides important provider information for differential diagnoses and sexual health visits.
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Measuring Retention in HIV Care in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of Telehealth
It 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.
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ESCALATE Glossary of Terms
The 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.
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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.
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Impact of COVID-19 protocols on Recruitment for an Engagement in Care Program for Returning Citizens
Exploratory 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.
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DC Engage Local Resource Guide
This 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.
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Fear and Hunger at AIDS 2022
At the first gathering of policymakers, activists, and clinicians since COVID-19, a precarious horizon of challenges, food insecurity, and famine, takes center stage.
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Another Horseman
The intersection of COVID-19, HIV, TB, and malaria; international conflicts fueled by proxy fights leveling cities; as well as domestic political chasms continue to over-burden the world’s emergency response resources.
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Infection with HIV can accelerate aging within the first two to three years of infection, study says
Researchers with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) looked at blood samples from more than 200 men to compare those infected with HIV to a control group who did not have HIV, and scored them on five different measures of aging.
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Using Implementation Science to Promote Integration and Sustainability of Community Health Workers in the HIV Workforce
Guided 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.
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Strengthening systems of care for people with or at risk for HIV, HCV and opioid use disorder: a call for enhanced data collection
In this implementation project, an assessment was made of the data capacity of the health system to measure a cascade of care (COC) across HIV, HCV and OUD services in five states to help guide public health planning.
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Leveraging Housing Opportunities to Promote Retention in Care for People with HIV
The Leveraging Housing Opportunities to Promote Retention in Care for People with HIV program in New York City offers three types of housing-related supportive services (rental assistance, housing placement assistance, or supportive permanent housing).
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Fatigue is associated with worse cognitive and everyday functioning in older persons with HIV
This study goes into detail about framing the relationship between fatigue, cognition, and everyday functioning in PLWH.
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Integrated HIV and Opioid Addiction Treatment with Buprenorphine
Intervention consisting of on-site buprenorphine treatment guided by an experienced HIV physician who is trained to incorporate motivational interviewing techniques into routine medical visits to provide substance use behavior counseling.
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Community Story: I Was Diagnosed With HIV at 15. It Took Time, But Life Got Better
“After my diagnosis, everything changed.” Brandi Velasquez recounts her personal experiences with HIV and how it changed her life — leading to finding community and becoming an activist.
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Supporting Retention in HIV Care: Comparing In-Person and Telehealth Visits in a Chicago-Based Infectious Disease Clinic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created increased need for telehealth appointments. To assess differences in appointment adherence for telehealth compared to in-person HIV medical care visits, this cross-sectional study was conducted of patients receiving HIV care in a safety-net hospital-based outpatient infectious disease clinic in a large urban area.
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How I Knew I Had HIV: Stories by Real People Living with HIV
Everyone’s experience is different, and that’s important because NO ONE symptom just shows up to indicate that you might have HIV. That is why getting tested is so important. In the beginning, it can be frightening, but these individuals overcame their fears and have triumphed.
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Addressing Health Disparities in HIV: Introduction to the Special Issue, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes: December 15, 2021
This article is about how racial and ethnic minorities specifically in California are impacted by HIV/AIDS. It discusses how they tailored their programs to target low-income populations. This particular study was done to prevent further HIV infections in at-risk populations.
