Southeast AETC MAI Projects
- Project Directory
- Cultural Humility & Reducing Stigma and Discrimination: Provider Handbook
- Deconstructing Racism/Anti-Ism Webinar Series
- HIV & Corrections Toolkit
- Medical Case Management Self-Paced Learning Curriculum
- Multicultural Monday Webinar Series
- Southeast Viral Hepatitis Interactive Case Conference (SVICC) Series
- Testing in Student Health Centers Toolkit
- Cultural Humility & Reducing Stigma and Discrimination: Provider Handbook
- Deconstructing Racism Webinar Series
- HIV Care in Correctional Settings Toolkit
- Medical Case Management Self-Paced Learning Curriculum
- Multicultural Monday Webinar Series
- Southeast Viral Hepatitis Interactive Case Conference (SVICC) Series
- Testing in Student Health Centers Toolkit
This project consists of a handbook for providers, as well as a series of video and interactive modules, aimed at dispelling misconceptions and educating HIV care providers about cultures and vulnerable populations in order to raise the level of sensitive and respectful care.
North Carolina (NC) has a long-standing commitment to serving persons with HIV incarcerated in the state’s prison system. Through years of collaborative effort with the NC Department of Correction and county-level jail facilities, UNC faculty have carefully studied the HIV care continuum for former inmates re-entering their communities.
With support from HRSA’s Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNC faculty have led innovative projects to help smooth the process of linkage to community-based care for persons with HIV leaving the state’s jails and prisons.
The key message from these studies is that care coordination – involving community-based professionals before release from jail or prison – is critically important. This toolkit builds upon a highly successful SPNS project conducted in Wake County, NC, Camden, NJ, and Las Vegas, NV to apply lessons learned from prison HIV care coordination to local jails. The team at the North Carolina AETC carefully evaluated the resources from the SPNS project, engaged local experts to provide feedback and context, and created a “wrap-around” set of resources that complements and enhances the work that our colleagues put in creating the Transitional Care Coordination (TCC) model. We are proud of this effort and hope that you find it useful, in your own work.
The purpose of this self-paced training is to improve providers’ health literacy and optimize client-centered communication through improved understanding of the unique structural barriers faced by people with HIV.
Curriculum Learning Objectives:
- Describe attributes of a health literate organization
- List and describe the stages of the Motivational Interviewing process
- Discuss how healthcare teams can assist retention in care for patients who experience stigma, aggression, anger, depression, anxiety and other difficult emotions
- Define common mental illnesses in people with HIV and describe the impact of mental illness on HIV care
Hosted every Monday, the SE AETC Multicultural Mondays Series provides culturally competent trainings to care providers. The goal of this series is to enhance the SE AETC MAI Webcasts by incorporating multilingual/multicultural targeted trainings.
The Southeast Viral Hepatitis Interactive Case Conference (SVICC), formerly the South Carolina Hepatitis C Telehealth Initiative, provides education and training and is designed to build the capacity of providers focused on viral hepatitis, specifically Hepatitis C Virus (HCV). This program will support new and experienced providers with evidence based, real time consultations on HCV screening, staging, treatment and post sustained virologic response (SVR) management.
The initiative covers a broad spectrum of topics related to Hepatitis C, from treatment naïve to treatment experienced patients with or without decompensated cirrhosis. Other cases for discussion can include patients with Hepatitis B, HIV/HCV/HBV co-infection as well as patients with substance use disorders.
The case conference format is a short didactic presentation, followed by a discussion of the case(s) submitted by the participants. Case recommendations are provided by a panel that includes ID physicians and ID clinical pharmacists.
Physicians, PAs, NPs, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, and other healthcare professionals are encouraged to attend. CME, ACPE and Nursing credits are provided and there is no charge for participation.
This guide is meant to serve as a template by which college health clinicians and providers can approach the sexual health considerations and concerns of our student patients.
