Implementation Resources
Training resources and other materials
- Webinars
- Training Webinars for The Recommendations for HIV Prevention with Adults and Adolescents with HIV in the United States, 2014
- For Clinical Providers
- Webinar 1: Topics covered: Linkage and Retention in Care, Treatment and Adherence, Risk-reduction, and Partner Services
- Webinar 2: Topics covered: Context of HIV Prevention; Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Services; Other Medical and Social Services; and Quality Improvement and Program Evaluation
- For Nonclinical Providers
- Webinar 1: Topics covered: Linkage and Retention in Care; Treatment and Adherence; Risk-Reduction; and Other Medical and Social Services
- Webinar 2: Topics covered: Context of HIV Prevention; Partner Services; STD Services; Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Services; and Quality Improvement and Program Evaluation
- For Health Departments and HIV Planning Groups
- CDC Learning Connection: Connects learners to quality public health and healthcare training opportunities and educational tools developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC partners, and other organizations recognized for developing public health training resources.
- CDC TRAIN: CDC TRAIN provides access to over 1300 courses developed by the CDC programs, grantees, and other funded partners. Courses offered by CDC course providers have been approved and verified by CDC.
- CDC-funded Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) Provider Network. CDC’s flagship program, providing high-impact HIV prevention capacity building assistance and services to community-based organizations, healthcare organizations, and health departments. Requests for assistance are made through CDC’s CBA Request Information System (CRIS). If you are a directly funded health department (HD), you may access CRIS directly. HD funded CBOs and HIV planning groups should submit CRIS requests through their state or local HDs funded by CDC.
- Effective Interventions Website: Resources used by HIV prevention providers such as health departments and community-based organizations so as to provide the best evidence-based HIV prevention services. Includes trainings on Data to Care, Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Access to Service (ARTAS).
- The National Network of STD Clinical Prevention Training Centers (NNPTC): CDC-funded group of training centers created in partnership with health departments and universities. The PTCs are dedicated to increasing the knowledge and skills of health professionals in the areas of sexual health.
- The TARGET Center: Administrated by HRSA, the Target Center provides technical assistance (TA) and training resources for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. Audience includes Ryan White grantees and providers, planning bodies, HRSA/HAB staff, consumers in search of services, various health and human service agencies, and the general public.
- AIDS Education and Training Center National Multicultural Center (AETC-NMC): Resource for training, education, and technical assistance to clinicians, providers and organizations in multicultural HIV/AIDS care.
- AETC National Resource Center: a national network of leading HIV experts who provide locally based, tailored education, clinical consultation and technical assistance to healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations to integrate state-of-the-science comprehensive care for those living with or affected by HIV. The network is comprised of 8 regional centers, 3 national centers, and 5 graduate/health profession programs.
- National HIV/AIDS Clinicians’ Consultation Center: Resources for health care providers to obtain timely and appropriate responses to clinical questions related to treatment of persons with HIV infection and/or possible health care worker exposure to HIV and other blood-borne pathogens.
- CDC’s Prevention Funding Announcements: provides updated information on locating and applying for current CDC HIV Prevention funding opportunities and grants. Also includes information on allocation of CDC’s annual HIV prevention budget, guidelines on AIDS-related written materials and links to both governmental and non-governmental funding databases.
- Resources on the Changing Health System: Relevant guidance to help direct service-providing health departments bill third party payers.
- NASTAD: Billing and Reimbursement Resources: Assessments and resources to assist health departments and safety net providers building their capacity to participate in third party billing and reimbursement.
- Interim Billing and Financial Worksheets: SAMHSA September 2014 Worksheets to cross-compare Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) billing and diagnostic codes for integrated health services.
- Directory of Capacity Building Assistance Provider Network. Funded by CDC to strengthen community-based organizations, health departments, and healthcare organizations in their high-impact HIV prevention initiatives.
- Referral Link from American Academy of HIV Medicine: Searchable directory of medical and social services for persons with HIV, including provider and agency contact information.
- The National Clinicians’ Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (PEPline). Offers clinicians up-to-the-minute advice on managing occupational exposures (i.e., needle sticks, splashes, etc.) to HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens. PEPline clinicians will respond to your call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Phone 888-448-4911.
- The National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (Perinatal HIV Hotline). http://www.nccc.ucsf.edu/about_nccc/warmline/. Offers clinical consultation and advice regarding the management of HIV in pregnant women, HIV testing in pregnancy, and the care of HIV-exposed infants. Clinical consultations are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Phone 888-448-4911.
- CDC Compendium of Evidence Based Interventions
- The Linkage to, Retention in, and Re-engagement in HIV Care (LRC) Chapter of the Compendium includes 9 best practices (4 EBIs; 5 evidence-informed interventions, EIs). (Updated on August 1, 2014)
- The Medication Adherence (MA) Chapter of the Compendium includes 10 EBIs. (Updated on April 11, 2014)
- The Risk Reduction (RR) Chapter of the Compendium includes 84 behavioral EBIs. (Updated on April 11, 2014)
- Effective Interventions Website: Resources used by HIV prevention providers such as health departments and community-based organizations so as to provide the best evidence-based HIV prevention services. Includes trainings on Data to Care, Anti-Retroviral Treatment and Access to Service (ARTAS).
- National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States: Updated to 2020
- CDC’s HIV Prevention Guidelines: Guidelines and recommendations on prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and management of HIV infection and HIV-related diseases.
- AIDSinfo Clinical Guidelines Portal: Administered by the National Library of Medicine, the AIDSinfo portal contains federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines
- CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention’s (NCHHSTP’s) Prevention of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB Through Health Care : Develops, implements, and evaluates policies and practices that leverage the health care system to help prevent HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STD, and TB infections.
- CDC HIV Surveillance Reports: provides an overview on the current epidemiology of HIV disease in the United States and dependent areas.