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- IHIP (18)
- Best Practices Compilation (13)
- In It Together (3)
- University of Washington (2)
- Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in) (2)
- SPNS Black MSM Initiative (2)
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) (2)
- AIDS Action Foundation (2)
- Center for Engaging Black MSM across the Care Continuum (1)
- Evidence-Informed Interventions (E2i) (1)
- SPNS Latino Access Initiative (1)
- Center for Innovation and Engagement (1)
- UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (1)
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Best Practices • 03/19/2024
Resources • 02/12/2024
Best Practices • 01/22/2024
Best Practices • 12/19/2023
Best Practices • 12/15/2023
Best Practices • 09/21/2023
Best Practices • 05/15/2023
Best Practices • 05/03/2023
Best Practices • 04/25/2023
Best Practices • 03/28/2023
Best Practices • 02/16/2023
Conference Presentations • 12/27/2022
Best Practices • 01/20/2023
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
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Best Practices • 11/14/2022
Best Practices • 08/09/2022
Conference Presentations • 12/27/2022
Best Practices • 01/20/2023
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
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Best Practices • 03/19/2024
Stronger Together uses counseling to increase engagement in and improve the quality of HIV care available for serodiscordant male couples. Through three in-person and additional “booster” sessions over an 18-month period, Stronger Together gave couples a space to work with an HIV professional to improve treatment adherence and keep both people healthy. Stronger Together participants were more likely to adhere to ART than those in a control group.
Resources • 02/12/2024
Online learning portal for clinicians on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for prevention of HIV.
Best Practices • 01/22/2024
+LOVE is an integrated case management intervention with behavioral health and crisis support to enhance and improve HIV care and outcomes for Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. An evaluation of +LOVE showed improvements in retention in care.
Best Practices • 12/19/2023
The Village Project is an intensive case management-based intervention that harnesses peer navigation and integrated behavioral health services to improve the health outcomes of young Black gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men. The Village Project was associated with increased retention in care and viral suppression.
Best Practices • 12/15/2023
Enlaces Por La Salud is an HIV linkage, navigation, and education program for Mexican men and transgender women. The intervention is grounded in a transnational framework for providing cultural context to support the delivery of one-on-one educational sessions to Latina(o/x) people with a new HIV diagnosis, as well as people with HIV who are not yet retained in care. After 12 months, the majority of people participating in Enlaces Por La Salud were retained in care and reached viral suppression.
Best Practices • 09/21/2023
Components of an intervention focused on BMSM with HIV who have not yet been successfully maintained in care.
Best Practices • 05/15/2023
Project Vogue provided community-based care coordination, HIV care, and behavioral health services to Black men who have sex with men (MSM) within New York City’s House & Ball community to address the unique cultural barriers that Black MSM experience when trying to access care. Project Vogue participants were linked to behavioral health services as well as to non-clinical supportive services, such as food and housing assistance.
Best Practices • 05/03/2023
2BU is a case management intervention designed to engage and reengage Black men who have sex with men with HIV into HIV care services. Peer case managers work closely with clients to increase HIV health literacy, troubleshoot accessibility issues to HIV care, and connect clients directly to behavioral health and support services. Clients who participated in 2BU had increased retention in care and viral suppression 12 months after enrollment.
Best Practices • 04/25/2023
ERASE was developed to address the unique needs of Black MSM. Through an intensive case management intervention, peer case managers provide health education and wellness support, and connect clients to medical and behavioral healthcare. ERASE also offers a physical “safe space” for Black MSM to meet with a case manager, access medical services, or connect with peers. Enrollment in ERASE improved retention in HIV care for clients.
Best Practices • 03/28/2023
STYLE 2.0 is a multi-component intervention designed to help reduce stigma and social isolation for Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. The intervention relies on health care navigators who facilitate linkage and engagement activities. They also connect clients to behavioral health providers who conduct motivational interviewing, as well as to a mobile application that supports all intervention activities. STYLE 2.0 participation has been associated with positive trends across HIV care continuum outcomes, including retention in care and increased viral suppression.
Best Practices • 02/16/2023
Project nGage is a support intervention approach that offers participants an initial 90-minute session with a social work interventionist and a participant support confidant to develop a tailored care and support plan. The social work interventionist then offers four follow-up sessions to each participant to discuss progress on the care and support plan. Project nGage was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial from 2012 to 2015: participants in the intervention were more likely to have at least three HIV primary care visits in the last 12 months than those who received usual care.
Conference Presentations • 12/27/2022
By cross matching registries of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, this study found 27.1% of male syphilis cases were coinfected with HIV and 31.8% of those coinfected were not virally suppressed. This suggests ongoing sexual risk behaviors and the potential for HIV transmission among male syphilis cases.
Best Practices • 01/20/2023
Resources to facilitate the replication or adaption of successful interventions for engaging Black MSM in HIV care.
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Overview of RWHAP SPNS E2i Initiative implementation materials.
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Review of the SPNS demonstration site efforts to understand and integrate mental and behavioral health services and address the unmet needs of Black MSM.
Conference Presentations • 12/07/2022
Two-part presentation, with Part 1 review of research regarding the efficacy of anal cancer screening and active treatment of HSIL or high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in adults with HIV over 35 years old and Part 2 on a multidisciplinary approach to screening and the importance of consumer voices in guiding screening services.
Best Practices • 11/14/2022
E-VOLUTION is a two-way text messaging intervention, originally developed by Washington University School of Medicine and piloted at Project ARK. The intervention focuses on improving health outcomes for youth, particularly young Black men who have sex with men. E-VOLUTION was designed for people ages 18-29 who have HIV and are receiving clinical care but require support to remain adherent. E-VOLUTION was evaluated and found to improve viral suppression and retention in care rates.
Best Practices • 08/09/2022
Project CONNECT uses linkage coordinators to effectively engage people in HIV medical care. It focuses on people with newly diagnosed HIV or people with HIV who are transferring their care or have been out of care. AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland implemented Project CONNECT as part of E2i, an initiative funded by the RWHAP Part F SPNS program from 2017–2021. Project CONNECT was successful in increasing the number of clients retained in HIV care and who reached viral suppression.