Topic: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
HIV counseling and testing occurs in a wide range of contexts in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Situations as diverse as community outreach, partner testing, pregnancy, and labor and delivery call for special counseling approaches on the part of clinical staff. The technology of testing has continued to evolve with rapid tests, oral tests, and home tests. Finally, legal requirements for offering and documenting tests in a health care settings have also shifted in many states and jurisdictions.
Guidelines and Manuals
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U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesMarch 2017
Federal guidelines for treatment, prevention and care of HIV disease and opportunistic infections.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauMarch 2017
Resources to support other programs in replicating the evidence-informed interventions of the SPNS Initiative: Systems Linkages and Access to Care for Populations at High Risk of HIV Infection.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauApril 2014
This manual was developed to provide clinicians with ready access to practical, current, treatment information so that they may provide quality care to people living with HIV.
Webinars and Training
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareJanuary 2017
This presentation addressed identified how barriers to healthcare access–including stigma by rural healthcare providers and rural healthcare teams–affect the health outcomes of persons living with HIV in the United States and its territories.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareMarch 2016
This webinar explores HIV prevention and treatment interventions in the context of incarceration.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareJanuary 2016
This webinar explores the disproportionate impact of HIV on Black and Latino MSM, and on MSM in the South. It also examines racial/ethnic disparities along the HIV continuum of care for MSM, structural factors in vulnerability, and how data can drive resource allocation to more effectively prevent and treat HIV in the U.S.
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HRSA, CDC, HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauDecember 2015
The National HIV Prevention Conference is sponsored by CDC. HRSA took part in the 2015 meeting to discuss new models to integrate prevention and care for people with HIV, which are presented in the following presentations.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareSeptember 2015
This webinar summarizes new research findings and practice guidelines that inform HIV treatment and prevention, identifies barriers to effective HIV screening, prevention, and treatment, and describes ways to overcome these barriers.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareDecember 2014
Discussion of the HIV care continuum, how engagement across the continuum impacts prevention, and what this means for ASOs and CBOs.
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National Quality CenterJuly 2014
This is a comprehensive set of HIV self-management videos, featuring testimonials, conversations, narrative, and animation to provide key messages about HIV and emphasize health literacy concepts.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauNovember 2013
Webinar on the integrated HIV prevention and care planning efforts and approaches to joint planning bodies. The Los Angeles EMA and Chicago EMA presented on their experiences in creating an integrated prevention and care planning body in their communities. -co
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2013
This IHIP training manual helps health care providers adapt SPNS models addressing how to engage hard-to-reach people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) into care within their current operations.
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AltaMedOctober 2012
Sin Vergüenza es un drama de vanguardia que invita a la reflexión, y que usa su narrativa para abordar la vergüenza y el estigma asociados con el VIH dentro de la comunidad latina.
Sin Vergüenza is a thought provoking, cutting edge drama that uses storytelling to tackle shame and stigma associated with HIV within the Latino Community.
Tools and Job Aids
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareJuly 2016
This fact sheet looks at organizational barriers to client engagement in care and strategies to address those barriers learned from AIDS United’s Positive Charge Initiative.
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareJune 2015
This handout from the National Center for Innovation in HIV Care includes a compilation of articles, webinars, and websites that are especially pertinent to ASOs and CBOs considering organizational restructuring or adopting service models that can improve care for clients along the HIV continuum.
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Philadelphia Office of HIV PlanningMay 2014
This is a brief assessment tool for counselors and testing staff to use with persons newly-diagnosed with HIV to assess their linkages to care in terms of health coverage, finances, housing, and social supports.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2003
Capacity building ideas for agencies seeking to expand their work into HIV/AIDS care, particularly for racial and ethnic minority communities.
Reports and Best Practices
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National Center for Innovation in HIV CareJune 2017
This is a resource guide for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) funded organizations to provide care to people living with HIV (PLWH) who are leaving prisons and jails and reentering society after incarceration. It describes proven models for linkage to care programs that can help PLWH access healthcare upon release in order to stay healthy, treatment adherent, HIV virally suppressed, and reduce their changes of recidivism.
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HealthHIVMarch 2016
Assessment of Medicaid coverage of HIV/AIDS prevention (testing, screening, condoms, PrEP) and care coverage in 10 select states.
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The AIDS InstituteApril 2015
Review of how major health care payers cover HIV testing and other prevention services under ACA preventive health provisions.
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Philadelphia Office of HIV PlanningApril 2015
Analysis of HIV prevention and care engagement focus groups with YMSM in Philadelphia.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauAugust 2006
Summary of findings and recommendations from a 2005 HRSA/HAB consultation meeting on engaging and retaining people with HIV/AIDS in care.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2006
Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2006
These workbooks describe ways to help connect people living with HIV/AIDS to medical care. Workbook II contains 25 projects, and includes approaches for keeping rural patients connected, and programs for link recently incarcerated patients to a support network.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2005Resource for programs interested in developing or expanding outreach services to identify HIV-positive youth and engage and retain them in care.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2005
Identificar a jóvenes VIH positivos e iniciarlos en programas de cuidado primarios, es un recurso para aquellos programas interesados en desarrollar o expandir servicios de ayuda social y destinados a identificar juventud VIH positiva, atraerla para participar y conservarla dentro del programa de cuidados primarios.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2004
Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2004
Workbooks on ways to help connect people living with HIV/AIDS to medical care.
Websites
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Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care ContinuumJanuary 2017
His Health is a website training site to educate providers on the delivery of HIV health care services for Black men who have sex with men (MSM) to enhance engagement and retention in care.
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JSIJanuary 2017
In It Together: National Health Literacy Project for Black MSM. In It Together is a health literacy training initiative for health care professionals serving black/African American Men who have Sex with Men (MSM).
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HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauJanuary 2017
Tested and proven strategies on delivery of HIV Care, based upon HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) projects.
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Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care ContinuumJanuary 2017
Well Versed is an online resource to enhance care interactions experienced by Black MSM. The site presents information and videos for health care providers and patients to help them at each stage of a care interaction.
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AETC National Coordinating Resource CenterJanuary 2017
Clinical education/training resources and patient education materials on a range of HIV clinical care and clinical management topics.
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CDCMay 2015
Esta página incluye información básica sobre el VIH, hojas informativas, y afiches.
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HIV.GOVMay 2015
Enlace principal a recursos clave de sitios del gobierno federal de los EE.UU. en español relacionados con el VIH/SIDA. Incluye servicios de prevención, tratamiento y apoyo.
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CDCMarch 2015
High-impact HIV prevention interventionsbased upon scientifically proven, cost-effective, and scalable interventions directed to the most vulnerable populations in the geographic areas where HIV prevalence is highest.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesJanuary 2015
Portal for HIV/AIDS information from the U.S. federal government-from facts about HIV/AIDS, where to get services, policies and programs and more.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAugust 2014
AIDSinfo is the official home to all U.S. HIV-related treatment guidelines. The site also includes a HIV/AIDS health topics database and fact sheets on FDA-approved and investigational HIV/AIDS-related drugs, educational materials for consumers and providers, and a clinical trials database.
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Clinician Consultation CenterMay 2014
This AETC clinical training program provides expert clinical consultation in HIV/AIDS management, post-exposure prophylaxis, perinatal HIV/AIDS, and HIV testing.