TARGET Center: Technical Assistance for the Ryan White Community

Topics

ADAP
ADAPs deliver HIV/AIDS medications. TA helps them do their work more effectively, addressing quality, data capacity, and more. Learn More
Clinical Care
Clinician and other health care provider training, consultation, and agency capacity building seek to expand and improve HIV/AIDS care. Learn More
Consumers
TA on consumer involvement—a pillar of Ryan White work—covers recruitment/retention, unmet need, peer educators etc. Learn More
Data
TA helps grantees collect, report, and use Ryan White data and includes the Data Academy, the RSR, the ADR, the Electronic Handbook, and CAREWare. Learn More
Fiscal
TA helps grantees manage their Ryan White grants more wisely, covering budgeting, third party reimbursement, and more. Learn More
Quality
TA is to help programs improve the quality of care they deliver through trainings like the Quality Academy. Learn More

Upcoming Events and Key Dates

February 2012

February 2: Part D Competing Application TA Call for HRSA-12-073. 2:30-4:30pm ET. (3rd of 4) See the Webcasts page for links to call slides and Q and A transcripts.
February 3: All Grantee Reports must be in “Certified” status by 6:00 PM ET (deadline extended due to EHB unavailability in late Jan.)
February 6-8: Training of Coaching Basics on Quality, Tampa, FL. Registration free.
February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
February 7: Part D Competing Application TA Call for HRSA-12-073. 2-4:00PM ET. (4th of 4) See the Webcasts page for links to call slides and Q and A transcripts.
February 9: Cultural Competence: Strengthening the Clinicians Role in Delivering Quality HIV Care within Hispanic Adolescent MSM Communities. Webinar from AETC National Multicultural Center. 2-3:00PM ET.
February 14: New Tools for ADAPs: February 14, 3-4pm ET. Featuring geomapping, web-based ADAP enrollment. Webinar from HRSA/HAB and NASTAD.
February 15: Seeking Beta Testers: New X-ERT Tool Helps Providers Check XML File Before Submission The DART team will demonstrate via webcast how to use X-ERT to "look under the hood" of an XML file, 1:00-2:30 pm ET.
February 16: NQC TA Call: Consumer/Provider Shared Decision-Making in Healthcare, 3:00-4:00 ET
February 23: Cultural Competence: Strengthening the Clinicians Role in Delivering Quality HIV Care within AANHPI Transgender Communities. Webinar from AETC National Multicultural Center. 2-3:00PM ET.
February 29: Webinar: How to use the HIV Performance Measure Module, a new reporting tool in the Ryan White Services Report (RSR) online database (available March 1). 3-4:30pm ET.

More events

See also the AETC National Resource Center's listing of Upcoming Clinical Conferences.

February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

2012 Theme: I am My Brother's/Sister's Keeper
For materials or to post and find events, go to NationalBlackAIDSDay.org. See also the CDC's fact sheet and information portal.

Recent Publications

HIVQUAL Brief #7: Improving Primary Care of Aging PLWH, featuring Ryan White Part C grantee SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Update on 340B Drug Pricing Program: Slides and resources from a recent Webinar on the ADAP Topic page
Ryan White Program Oral Health and HIV Fact Sheet
CAREAction Newsletter: Test and Treat
CARE Action Newsletter: Transgender Health
SPNS Report on Improving Linkages and Access to Care
Improving Rates for Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening in Lousiana
HIVQUAL (PDF – 559KB)
HIVQUAL-US Performance Data Report 2009
2011 Annual Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Regional Data Training Presentations

What's New

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2.7.12
Interested in gaining medical homes recognition? Tell us what you need to know.
Webinar Presents New Tools for ADAPs: February 14, 3-4pm ET. Featuring geomapping, web-based ADAP enrollment. Presented by HRSA/HAB and NASTAD.
Webinar: How to use the HIV Performance Measure Module, a new reporting tool in the Ryan White Services Report (RSR) online database (available March 1). Webinar is February 29, 3-4:30pm ET.
Last Chance for Free Clinical Capacity Building for Community Health Centers: February 15 Deadline. Email christine@healthhiv.org and simply state your intent to apply or call 202-507-4727. Learn more and apply
2.3.12
Introducing: The HIV Medical Homes Resource Center, learn about this new HAB TA program.
1.23.12
CAREAction Newsletter: Test and Treat. Can HIV/AIDS be eliminated if all adults are tested regularly and all infected persons are put on antiretroviral therapy (ART) -- regardless of CD4 level? And look back to 2010 Ryan White debate on this issue.
See also the recent CAREAction edition on Transgender Health, including health issues, systemic barriers, cultural and clinical competency.
HRSA HIV Funding Announcement: Part D Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY) (HRSA-12-073). See the events calendar for the TA call schedule.
1.12.12
Save The Date: Ryan White All Grantee Meeting, November 27-29, Washington, DC.
Follow the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program on Twitter (Follow @ryanwhitecare).
SPNS Report on Improving Linkages and Access to Care
TA for Community Health Centers on providing HIV/AIDS care: deadline extended to apply.

1.6.12
Letter from HRSA regarding ban on use of federal funding for syringe services programs.
1.4.12
New Topic Page on engaging people in care.
Updated fact sheet on the Affordable Care Act and People with HIV/AIDS
Part C HIV Early Intervention Funding: Applications due January 31
Guide to Cost Effectiveness of HIV Prevention Interventions from CDC.
12.12.11
HIV/AIDS Clinician Toolkit CD-ROM contains key HIV-related U.S. federal treatment guidelines and recommendations paired with training slide sets and reference materials geared toward clinicians treating people with HIV.
Training of Coaching Basics on Quality, February 6-8, Tampa. Registration free.
Flu Season Resources available from CDC.
CDC releases plans from 12 metro areas participating in the Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention Planning Project (ECHPP).
11.04.11
What's in an HIV care model? Report says Ryan White offers foundation for care expansion under National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Affordable Care Act.
10.28.11
People living with HIV/AIDS and TB, and not on antiretrovirals, should start HIV therapy as soon as possible after start-up of TB treatment.
10.20.11
Learn about CDC's new High-Impact HIV Prevention
10.18.11
Pap tests skyrocket after Ryan White quality group in Mississippi gets to work. See Brief #5 and other briefs by HIVQUAL-US that explain how quality groups improved screening for Hep B, cervical cancer, and more.
See the AHRQ Innovations Exchange catalogue of strategies for improving HIV/AIDS care, housed within larger catalogue of tools and innovations on ways to quality and reduce disparities.
09.08.11
Transitioning HIV-Positive Youth to Adult Care: New Resources. Download Young Adult Leader Toolkit and the Adolescent Provider Toolkit

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