New Webinar: Improving Equity in PrEP for People Experiencing Homelessness Through Structural Interventions (January 18, 2024)

Posted January 13, 2024

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Join HealthHIV on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 12:00pm Eastern for a 75-minute live webinar featuring two experts who will discuss the unique challenges, opportunities, and strategies for outreach and engagement of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in PrEP services. This is the second webinar in a two-part series, PrEP for People Experiencing Homelessness: From Outreach to Adherence, that aims to educate healthcare professionals on delivering equitable and individualized PrEP care to PEH.

Over the course of the 1.25 credits/contact hours certified activity, faculty will discuss structural interventions to enhance engagement of PEH in PrEP care and improve equity in PrEP access. This webinar includes faculty that have applied innovative models for PrEP care among PEH, such as mobile healthcare or street medicine and pharmacy-based models, and faculty with experience advocating for housing for people living with or at risk for HIV. Faculty will discuss how expanded referral relationships and partnerships in the community with housing assistance/providers can improve equity in PrEP access for PEH.

This webinar will be interactive with participant polling, live Q&A periods, and links to additional resources to navigate patients onto PrEP.

Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

  • Identify structural barriers people experiencing homelessness (PEH) face in initiating and adhering to PrEP.
  • Summarize care models to reduce barriers to PrEP, such as mobile healthcare, street medicine, and pharmacy services.
  • Construct an interdisciplinary care team approach that includes partnerships with social support services to support PEH in PrEP care.

Target Audience

HIV care providers, primary care providers, pharmacists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician associates, social workers, and other healthcare professionals in primary care, HIV care, and STD clinic settings involved in the care of patients living with and at risk for HIV.

Continuing Education

1.25 credits/contact hours are available for completion of this webinar activity for physicians, physician associates, nurses, social workers, and pharmacists.

Speakers

Sarah E. Rowan, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine for the Division of Infection Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She also serves as an Associate Director of HIV and Viral Hepatitis Prevention at Denver Health’s Public Health Institute. The Rev. Lauren Banks is the Executive Director for the National AIDS Housing Coalition. Lauren has worked in HIV/AIDS policy for a decade, focusing on federal appropriations and the role of housing in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

 

Accreditation, Credit, and Support

 
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Medical Learning Institute, Inc. and HealthHIV.  Medical Learning Institute, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This program has been supported by an independent educational grant from Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Questions?

Contact Marissa Tonelli, Director of Medical Education, at Marissa@HealthHIV.org.

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