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Best Practices • 01/03/2024
Best Practices • 04/27/2023
Best Practices • 03/31/2023
Best Practices • 12/21/2022
Best Practices • 11/28/2022
Best Practices • 08/01/2022
Best Practices • 07/07/2022
Best Practices • 06/24/2022
Best Practices • 06/10/2022
Best Practices • 10/05/2021
Best Practices • 05/15/2021
Conference Presentations • 02/12/2021
Conference Presentations • 02/12/2021
Webinars • 03/24/2020
Resources • 09/10/2018
Training Modules • 01/01/2013
Best Practices • 10/05/2021
Conference Presentations • 02/12/2021
Conference Presentations • 02/12/2021
Resources • 09/10/2018
Training Modules • 01/01/2013
Best Practices • 01/03/2024
The Alexis Project used social network recruiting and engagement, peer navigation, and contingency management to reach and engage transgender women of color with HIV who were not engaged in HIV care. Participation in the 18-month intervention improved linkage to care and viral suppression.
Best Practices • 04/27/2023
Intervention featuring time-limited services and outreach to help identify, treat, and prevent HIV and STIs.
Best Practices • 03/31/2023
The Navigator Case Management intervention helps people with HIV who are incarcerated and are leaving to return to the community. The intervention uses harm reduction, case management, and motivational interviewing techniques to promote healthy behaviors. Enhanced case management including peer support and connection to other needed services both immediately before and after release supports increased linkage to and retention in HIV care for people transitioning to the community from jail.
Best Practices • 12/21/2022
LINK LA is a 12-session, 24-week peer navigation intervention for people with HIV who are scheduled to be released from incarceration. LINK LA peer navigators focus on behavioral changes that promote medication adherence and retention in care, while providing social support and facilitating communication with medical providers. LINK LA showed improvements in linkage to and retention in HIV care and viral suppression among people with HIV re-entering the community after incarceration.
Best Practices • 11/28/2022
Bienestar developed TransActivate to improve timely engagement and retention in HIV care among Latina transgender women. Linkage coordinators/peer navigators use a strengths-based approach to help clients reach their goals of entering and staying in medical care to ultimately reach viral suppression.
Best Practices • 08/01/2022
Healthy Divas focuses on empowering transgender women with HIV to achieve their personal health goals. Three sites implemented the intervention as part of the E2i initiative funded through the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017 through 2021. Both engagement in HIV care and having an antiretroviral therapy prescription improved significantly for clients 12 months after enrollment in Healthy Divas.
Best Practices • 07/07/2022
The Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center launched Proyecto Promover to decrease HIV testing-related stigma, increase awareness of HIV status, and increase early linkage to and retention in care among Mexicanos with HIV. The program operates at the community level through social marketing, educational talks, networking, and testing. On the individual level, Proyecto Promover uses one-on-one conversations to identify and overcome barriers related to care engagement and retention. Evaluation showed promising rates of HIV testing, retention in care, and viral suppression.
Best Practices • 06/24/2022
From 2016 through 2019, three clinics—AIDS Care Group, Howard Brown Health, and Meharry Medical College—participated in a RWHAP Part F SPNS DEII initiative to implement peer linkage and re-engagement interventions for women of color with HIV. Integrating peers into HIV primary care teams has been effective in better engaging women of color in care.
Best Practices • 06/10/2022
T.W.E.E.T. aims to engage transgender women in HIV care by combining weekly peer-based education and discussion groups, leadership training, community building, and the provision of supportive services. Three sites implemented T.W.E.E.T. as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. Clients had improved outcomes across the HIV care continuum 12 months after enrollment in T.W.E.E.T.
Best Practices • 10/05/2021
University Health uses peers and patient navigators to provide support, reduce barriers, and improve linkage and retention to care for women and youth with HIV. Two peers with lived experience were hired as Outreach Specialists to spearhead the program, encourage medication adherence and use of services, and provide mentoring. The intervention was successful in moderately improving the numbers of clients linked to care, retained in care, and virally suppressed.
Best Practices • 05/15/2021
This medical-community partnership worked to link clients to care and decrease missed appointments and used peer navigators to successfully re-engage clients in care.
Conference Presentations • 02/12/2021
In this workshop, participants will gain resources and strategies for implementing community engagement programs, including training community health workers to be part of a health care team to enh
Conference Presentations • 02/12/2021
Webinars • 03/24/2020
Review of how HIV care can be enhanced when agencies establish partnerships with pharmacists.
Resources • 09/10/2018
Activities agencies can undertake to enhance delivery of HIV care to youth living with HIV.
Training Modules • 01/01/2013
Overview of the health system navigation/ retention in care model of care. Part of the tools in Innovative Approaches to Engaging Hard-to-Reach Populations Living with HIV/AIDS into Care.