Pacific AETC – Central Valley & Northern Interior
Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center - Central Valley & Northern Interior
The Pacific AETC – Central Valley & Northern Interior (Pacific AETC – CVNI) is located at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA and serves 32 counties ranging from the border of Oregon to Kings and Tulare Counties. Pacific AETC – Central Valley & Northern Interior provides clinical training and capacity building assistance to providers of high-volume urban HIV clinics as well as low volume, rural community health centers throughout central and eastern Northern California. The training center offers an array of HIV/AIDS training and educational activities, including didactic seminars, workshops, conferences, preceptorships, on-site clinical mentoring, clinical consultations, and telehealth programs. Many programs are targeted towards healthcare professionals providing care to underserved populations in community health clinics, rural community health centers, and correctional facilities.
Region Served:
Northern Central Valley: Sacramento, Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado, Solano, Amador, Alpine, San Joaquin, Calaveras, and Mono Counties
Southern Central Valley: Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, Mariposa, Madera, Fresno, Kings, and Tulare Counties
Contact Information:
On-Demand Trainings:
To watch the video, please register by clicking on the button below the description. If this is your first time registering for a Pacific AETC event, you will need to create an account. After registering, you will be sent a confirmation email with the link to watch the video.
There will be a link to an evaluation survey in the video description. We would appreciate it if you took a moment to complete the survey. It only takes a couple of minutes, and our funding depends on the response rate of these evaluations.
What’s New with Flu, RSV, and COVID-19 Vaccines
This 61-minute recording will inform healthcare workers about current flu COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for people with HIV, summarize new RSV vaccine options, and review approaches to address patient vaccine concerns.
Recorded 10/2023
Latin X Culture and Community Series
This three-part series delves into the complex relationship between substance use and HIV within the Latinx community for an audience of healthcare providers including mental health clinicians, substance use counselors, case managers, and pharmacists serving marginalized populations and unhoused individuals in North, Central, and Bay Area CA.
Recorded 8/2023
Central Valley: Congenital Syphilis
This 27-minute recording will inform healthcare workers about California’s congenital syphilis data and programmatic response, best practices for congenital syphilis in the Central Valley, and the connection between perinatal HIV and congenital syphilis.
Recorded 2/2023
Central Valley: HIV and Vaccinations
This 54-minute recording will inform healthcare workers about the risks, benefits, and eligibility criteria for the COVID-19 vaccine and booster(s), influenza vaccine, Monkeypox vaccine, and other routine vaccinations for people with HIV.
Recorded 10/2022
Northern CA: Assisting Partner Services Symposium
The two recordings will provide healthcare workers and community health workers an introduction to partner services, how to effectively promote partner services to patients/clients, and how to assist their local public health departments with partner services.
Recorded 3/2022
Archived On-Demand Trainings:
To see additional information, click the “Register Here” button.
HIV 101
Recorded 6/2021
Health Insurance 101
Recorded 6/2021
Ryan White Clinics: Preparing for the 2020-2021 Flu Season Amid a Pandemic
Recorded 10/2020
Sacramento County: HIV Epidemiology and Methamphetamine
Recorded 8/2020
Effects of Methamphetamine on the Brain and the HIV Epidemic
Recorded 8/2020
Challenges of HIV Mental Health and Addiction: Basic Science to Treatment
Recorded 8/2020
Addiction Treatment in Acute Care
Recorded 8/2020
Public Benefits Navigation for People with HIV
Recorded 6/2020
The Impact of COVID-19 and Pandemics on Mental Health
Recorded 6/2020
Additional Resources
Local Resources:
Sacramento Region PrEP Community Resource List (updated 11/2021)
A list of organizations in Alpine, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties that offer PrEP or PrEP-related services, as well as insurance they accept.
Sacramento Region HIV, Meth, and Mental Health Resources (updated 11/2020)
A list of organizations that offer treatment for HIV, methamphetamine use, or mental health, as well as any restrictions they may have.
Alpine County / El Dorado County / Placer County
Sacramento County / Yolo County
Printable Guides
ICD 10 Billing Code Trifold Brochures (updated 8/2021)
Includes ICD 10 billing codes for PrEP and/or related healthcare services.
PrEP Billing Codes / HIV Billing Codes
Combined PrEP & HIV Billing Codes
Pocket Guide for PrEP Screening (updated 1/2023)
Includes information regarding indications, contraindications/cautions, testing, prescriptions/doses, side effects, efficacy, counseling, monitoring, billing codes, medication assistance, and resources for further information. Updated January 2023 to include injection PrEP and reformatted for easier printing.
Pocket Guide to Open-Ended Sexual Health Questions (updated 1/2023)
Includes information regarding creating a welcoming clinical environment, preparing to take a sexual history, questions to ask during a sexual history, the 5 P’s, and resources for further information. Updated January 2023 for easier printing.
Insurance Resources:
ADAP Acceptable Supporting Documents – English (updated 8/2021) / ADAP Acceptable Supporting Documents – Spanish (updated 3/2020)
A list of documents that are acceptable to determine eligibility for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
ADAP Formulary (updated 6/2023)
List of medications covered by ADAP.
CA Office of AIDS Programs – Income Thresholds (updated 4/2023)
List of maximum incomes per family size for insurance programs including CA Office of AIDS Programs, Medi-Cal Expansion, Aged & Disabled Medi-Cal, and Covered California.
Covered CA Special Enrollment Period – English/Spanish (updated 7/2021)
Description of and eligibility information for a special enrollment period for Covered California health insurance coverage.
Covered CA & Immigration – English/Spanish (updated 7/2021)
Immigration status and eligibility information for Covered California health insurance coverage.
EB-HIPP FAQ – English / EB-HIPP FAQ – Spanish
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions for the Employer Based Health Insurance Premium Payment (EB-HIPP) Program.
Slides
Trauma Informed Care (updated 5/2022)
Includes information regarding the history of trauma informed care (TIC), stress responses and protective factors, and TIC tool applications for HIV providers.
Opportunistic Infections (updated 5/2022)
Includes information regarding symptoms, prevention, and treatment of common opportunistic infections that occur in people with HIV, as well as recommendations for beginning ART during an active opportunistic infection.
Ryan White Clinics: Preparing for the 2021-2022 Flu Season Amid a Pandemic (updated 10/2021)
Includes information about coadministration of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and ADAP vaccination assistance.
Coping with COVID (updated 6/2020)
Self-care considerations during the COVID-19 pandemic for healthcare providers, including educators and public health officials.
ARVs in COVID (updated 5/2020)
This presentation provides HIV healthcare providers and stakeholders current information on the use of HIV drugs to treat COVID-19.
HIV PrEP (updated 5/2020)
These presentations inform healthcare providers, including public health staff and substance abuse providers, on the role of PrEP in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and how to identify populations eligible for PrEP, discuss PrEP initiation and monitoring, and identify systems-based challenges and consideration in delivering PrEP services.
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