Pacific AETC’s 2023 Recap
Posted December 22, 2023
As we reflect back on the last year of service and support to our community of healthcare workers, Pacific AETC is reminded of it’s vision:
A healthcare system that is accessible, responsive, culturally affirmative, centered in social justice and health equity, where the lessons of HIV and chronic care are fully integrated into patient- and community-centered models.
With that in mind, below we offer some highlights of trainings and materials that were delivered in 2023, and are available as ongoing resources for our learning community.
HIV Essentials and Quick Clinical Guides (Updated)
The Pacific AETC‘s HIV Essentials and Quick HIV Clinical Guides compilation consists of seven of our most popular clinical reference guides used in primary care, urgent care, and emergency room clinical settings. The recommendations are based on HRSA, CDC, IDSA, IAS-USA, and WHO guidelines, along with current practices used by our expert clinicians. This compilation starts with two “Essentials” documents which can be printed on single letter-sized pieces of paper and folded into a pocket for quick reference during a busy clinic. The protocols and quick clinical guides provide more details for implementation, and each document can be printed separately and used on their own. Click Here to Download the Guides
Quick Guide to Health Healthcare Providers Increase PrEP Uptake in BIPOC Communities
The Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center – Bay Area, North & Central Coast authored a Quick Guide to Help Healthcare Providers Increase PrEP Uptake in BIPOC Communities. If you are interested in learning how to increase PrEP Uptake in BIPOC Communities, be sure to check out the quick guide below. Click Here to Learn More and Access the Guide
HIV and Infant Feeding Series
The Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center and National Clinician Consultation Center presented the 3-part virtual training series: HIV and Infant Feeding: A case study in moving beyond shared decision making through an antioppression and reproductive justice lens. This interactive series served to review and discuss guidelines for Infant Feeding for Individuals with HIV in the United States, released January 30, 2023. You can register to view the recordings and access materials from these trainings by clicking the links below:
- HIV and Infant Feeding: Session 1
- HIV and Infant Feeding: Session 2
- HIV and Infant Feeding: Session 3
Tilting the Scale: Current Provider Perspectives and Practices on Breastfeeding with HIV in the United States
To accompany the above series on HIV and Infant Feeding, a paper co-authored by Pacific AETC’s own Co-Principal Investigator, Monica Hahn, MPH, MS, MD, on breast/chestfeeding for birthing people living with HIV was published on February 13th, 2023. Click Here to Learn More.
On Demand Learning
Pacific AETC eLearning Portal Course Catalog
Based at PAETC—Los Angeles Area, the Pacific AETC’s E-Learning Portal is a free, 508 compliant, HIV online learning site offering continuing education credits to RNs, LCSWs, and MFTs. A free PrEP toolkit is available on the home page. In 2023, Pacific AETC released three new course modules to our eLearning Portal:
- 2022 The Mpox and HIV Syndemic ( 1 CE)
- Injectable Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) (1 CE)
- Linkages and Retention in HIV Care (1 CE)
Other courses that have been updated and re-released include:
- Aging with HIV: Challenges for a ‘New Aging’ Population (1.5 CEs)
- Alcohol and HIV (3.0 CEs)
- HIV and Tuberculosis (1.5 CEs)
- Marijuana and HIV (3.5 CEs)
- Motivational Interviewing for HIV (6.0 CEs)
- Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: A Primer for Primary Care (1.5 CEs)
- Recovery Support Services Along the Continuum of Substance Use and HIV Treatment (1.5 CEs)
- Syphilis Review (1.5 CEs)
- Trans Health: Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Communities (2.0 CE’s)
PrEP Ready! Community of Practice Archives
PrEP Ready! Comunity of Practice is a peer-to peer EHE learning community to strengthen equitable PrEP programming at FQHCs in the Pacific Region. Sessions are created to help to enhance the various aspects required to offer successful PrEP delivery services with a health equity lens. While PrEP Ready! CoP session are only open to FQHCs in EHE jurisdictions in the Pacific Region, we believe all healthcare organizations offering PrEP can find the materials developed useful. Below is a list of past session with registration links to view the archived recordings, slides, PrEP implementation tools, and other materials developed for each session.
Click on each title to register!
- How to pay for all of this: Reducing barriers to billing and insurance coverage for PrEP Services
- Constructing your HIV Prevention Package
- Building your Community’s HIV Prevention Capacity with a Health Equity Lens
- Essential PrEP Screening Skills: Discussing Sex and Sexuality
- PrEP Outreach & Engagement Strategies
- Social Media & PrEP Outreach Strategies
- The other blue pill: PrEP & Aging
- PrEP Billing and Coverage 201: Advanced strategies to pay for PrEP services
- Centering the Margins: Expanding PrEP access to communities that need it most (Coming soon!)
HIV Learning Network
The Pacific AETC’s HIV Learning Network (HIVLN) is a free, longitudinal telehealth HIV training and consultation program for HIV clinical care teams and individual clinicians in Pacific Region. HIVLN provides bimonthly live, virtual sessions on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 12:00-1:00 pm Pacific Time. All live sessions are CME accredited.
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Other Archived Webinars:
- What’s New with Flu, RSV, and COVID-19 Vaccines
- Doxycycline for Bacterial STI Prevention- Recorded Webinar
- A Process of Change: Integrating HIV/STI Prevention into Primary Care Practice- Recorded Webinar
- PrEP Implementation in Primary Care- Recorded Webinar
- Northern CA: Assisting Partner Services Symposium
- Central Valley: Congenital Syphilis
- Latin X Culture and Community Series
On behalf of all of us at Pacific AETC, we wish you a very happy and healthy 2024!
