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Deeper Look: HIV and the Faith Community

This webpage discusses how the faith community continues to play an essential role in shaping the public’s knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have been key components in a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy for building awareness, mobilizing communities, and reducing HIV-related stigma. The role FBOs play in local communities puts them in a unique position to influence their congregation to get tested, seek care, and remain virally suppressed.

Deeper Look: HIV Criminalization

This webpage discusses HIV criminalization and how the criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure dates back to the early history of the HIV epidemic.

Deeper Look: HIV among Women

This webpage discusses the intersection between women and HIV. In 2021, 18% of the new HIV diagnoses in the United States and dependent areas were among women and 23% of all people living with HIV were women. In addition, Black women represent 54% of new HIV diagnoses among women.

PNR - The PrEP-to-Need Ratio, Explained

This video from AIDSVu explains what the PrEP-to-need ratio is how it is implemented.

Motivational Interviewing and HIV: A Guide for Navigators

This guide assists navigators working with people diagnosed with or at risk for HIV. Navigators can play
a crucial role in helping people living with HIV (PLWH) because nowhere is the need to change behaviors
more important than in HIV infection. Changing risky behaviors can prevent transmission of the virus,
and people living with HIV have better outcomes when they are able to change from risky to healthier
behaviors. 

Trauma-Informed and Whole Person Approaches Video

The Trauma-Informed and Whole Person Approaches Video highlights a conversation between HIV program staff, both health department and community-based, at different points in their TIA journey reflecting on what it means and requires to take a trauma-informed approach to providing whole-person care and services.

Dried Blood Spot: A Sample Collection Method For HCV that Can Meet People Where They Are

This guideline discusses how DBS is a way of gathering a blood sample for hepatitis C testing. With DBS, the person being tested just needs to have a finger pricked, no locating veins or tubes of blood required. 

High Priority HIV and Substance Use Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support high priority research at the intersection of HIV and substance use. This FOA invites innovative research projects with the potential to open new areas of HIV/AIDS research and/or lead to new avenues for prevention, treatment and cure of HIV among people who use drugs (PWUD). Applications submitted under this FOA are required to have a detailed research plan, preliminary data, and a clear description of the nexus with substance use.

From Experience to Action: Youth Voices on Hepatitis and HIV

This video from World Hepatitis Alliances highlights youth voices and a discussion on viral hepatitis and HIV.

Addressing Medical Mistrust to Improve Health Outcomes for People Living with and Impacted by HIV in the Southern United States

People living with HIV face a myriad of challenges to access medical and other supportive services. This issue brief focuses on the intersection of the historical and current implications of medical mistrust and its impact on engagement in care for people living with HIV in the South.