Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Regional AIDS Education and Training Centers Program - TARGETED POPULATION: PAETC will provide training/TA to 9,640 healthcare providers and 300 healthcare organizations per year in Arizona, California, Hawai‘i, Nevada and the 6 US Affiliated Pacific Islands. Our region encompasses 10 Part A EMAs/TGAs (and EHE Jurisdictions) and more than 168,000 people with HIV; in new cases, 76% are among minorities. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: PAETC’s goal is to expand the number and ability of healthcare professionals and organizations in our region to provide high quality HIV services to increase access to healthcare and decrease health disparities, in alignment with the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and to support optimal patient outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum. This will be achieved through implementation of the HRSA-defined goals and objectives of the program, including expanding the number, ability, and diversity of HIV providers, and integrating HIV into primary care and other healthcare settings that provide services to underserved populations to improve health equity. This will be achieved through 3 components: BASE (including Fundamentals of HIV, Capacity and Expertise Expansion, Practice Transformation, Interprofessional Education), Minority AIDS Initiative, and Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative. Targeted healthcare providers per year include 521 Advance Practice Nurses/Nurse Practitioners, 1392 Medical Case Managers, 169 Oral Health professionals, 973 Nurses, 543 Pharmacists, 1,757 Physicians, 166 Physician Assistants/Associates, and 4,119 other health care team members, emphasizing minority-serving providers and those serving for highly impacted communities. Trainings will be aligned with the NHAS 2022-2025 and the HIV Prevention and Care Continuum, focusing on prevention, testing/linkage, linkage/retention, ART prescription/viral load suppression, as well as clinic capacity building. PAETC will partner with key stakeholders, like RWHAP Part A/B Directors, AETC programs, Federal Tr aining Centers, and other healthcare organizations. OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM PLAN: PAETC will provide training/TA via a system of 8 local partners (LPs) based at the Universities of California at San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, Davis, and San Diego; and Universities of Arizona, Hawai‘i, and Nevada. Activities include: survey of partner landscape; annual needs assessments and concurrence on training/TA plans with RWHAP Part A/B Directors; training/TA design and implementation using 7 modalities; longitudinal capacity building activities with RWHAP clinics and FQHCs; evaluation of participants and clinic indicators; and quality management/improvement activities. BASE training/TA activities will train 5,760 healthcare providers and 128 healthcare facilities per year. The PT Project will work with 10 RWHAP clinics and FQHCs in the first year. The IPE program will establish 2 new sites at Minority-Serving Institutions. The MAI program will train 2,000 minority-serving providers in 100 healthcare facilities, ASOs, and CBOs. PROJECT EVALUATION: PAETC will evaluate changes in knowledge, skills and behavior, and increases in the HIV workforce using OMB-approved forms and Participant Evaluation Forms, surveys and focus groups. Evaluated activities are linked to learning objectives. PAETC participates in cross-regional activities with the National Evaluation Contractor and will measure progress on key HAB indicators for participating PT clinics to assess outcomes along the HIV Continuum and will use competencies as outcome measures for the IPE project. PAETC is requesting a funding preference, based on past performance training minorities and minority-serving providers, in a region with immense demonstrated need and vast opportunity for advancement in training, education and capacity building.
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