Upcoming Awareness Days

April 10, 2013
National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Resources

May 18, 2013
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
Resources

May 19, 2013
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Resources

“HIV Testing in Primary Care: The Reachable Moment” Training Video

In this video, Kathleen Clanon, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the Alameda County Medical Center and East Bay AETC faculty, provides easy to use tools for primary care providers to implement routine HIV testing in their practices. To view the video, click here.

Affordable Care Act Resources Webpage from HRSA

HRSA/HAB has created a new webpage, Ryan White and the Affordable Care Act: What you Need to Know, which offers guidance on the key provisions of the ACA for the Ryan White Program, information on insurance enrollment options, education and outreach materials, and more. To access the webpage, click here.

2010 HIV Surveillance Report: Diagnoses of HIV Infection among Adults Aged 50 Years and Older in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2007–2010

This surveillance report from CDC, indicates that in the 46 states with long-established confidential name-based HIV infection reporting, the estimated percentage of persons living with diagnosed HIV infection who were aged 50 years or older increased 14 percent, from almost 29 percent in 2007 to 33 percent in 2009. Older persons were also more likely than younger persons to be diagnosed with HIV infection late in the course of their disease.
To access the report, click here.

Evaluating Legislation Impact: The Maryland Public Health Dental Hygiene Act Webinar

This webinar from the American Public Health Association will take place on April 9, 2013 at 11:30 Pacific Standard Time.
Webinar Description:
Description: Beginning on Oct. 1, 2008, the underserved in Maryland, especially children, gained increased access to oral health services through the Public Health Dental Hygiene Act of 2008. The act allows a dental hygienist working in a public health setting, including schools, to practice dental hygiene and apply sealants or fluoride agents, mouth rinse or varnish without a prior examination by a dentist or physician. In 2012, the Maryland Office of Oral Heath was awarded funding by the American Public Health Association to evaluate the law’s effects.

This webinar will feature Harry Goodman, DMD, MPH, director of the Office Oral Health, who will give an overview of the law; Deborah Levy, MS, founder of SuccessLinks, LLC and evaluation consultant who will discuss the evaluation and Sue Camardese, RDH, MS, the public health dental hygienist at Chase Brexton Health Services in Columbia, Md., who will speak about how the law has affected their dental program.

To learn more and to register, click here.

2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Update

The 20th CROI event was held on March 3 – 6, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia. To access information about the conference, i.e. agenda, abstracts, webcasts, podcasts, and more, click here.

AETC NRC Biweekly Update

To learn about what's new with the AETCs, click here.

Some of the highlights:
Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents Training Slide set

HIV and Preconception Care Toolkit

CDC Fact Sheet: Incidence, Prevalence, and Cost of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the U.S.

and more…

Alcohol and HIV: What Clinicians Need to Know Webinar Recording and Slideset

This webinar, presented by Beth Rutkowski, MPH, provided HIV clinicians with a detailed overview of alcohol abuse and the behavioral and Medical approaches for treating alcohol-addicted individuals.
Due to technical difficulties, the webinar was not recorded within Adobe Connect. Therefore, we are posting the slides and the audio recording separately. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Slides:
Alcohol and HIV: What Clinicians Need to Know Slideset

The Great Debate: When to Treat HCV in HIV Co-infected Patients Webinar Recording

This PAETC webinar, presented by Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer and Dr. Brad Hare provided a brief update of the newest HCV treatment options and discuss 3 cases of co-infected patients. You may now access the webinar recording and slides by clicking on the links below:

Recording: Click here

Slides: click here

Using the iPad as a Training Device Webinar Recording

This webinar from the AETC National Resource Center, featuring Bruce Maeder, Northwest AETC and Nicolé Mandel, AETC NRC took place on March 5, 2013 at 10:00 – 11:00 PST

To retrieve the recording of the webinar, click here.

Learning Objectives:
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
• Discuss the apps/software needed to run a PowerPoint slide deck using an iPad
• List the step in loading a PPT slide deck onto an iPad