Three D Program – HealthHIV

HIV Prevention TA

The Three D HIV Prevention Program^TM enhances the ability of TA recipients to conduct enhanced data collection and analysis to make better-informed programmatic decisions that impact the delivery of quality HIV prevention services.

Overview

The Three D Program: Directing Comprehensive TA from Systems to Sustainability^TM provides a continuum of technical assistance (TA) and information exchange activities that proactively and strategically responds to the gaps in knowledge, skills, and competency of HIV prevention partners. The Three D Program enhances the ability of TA recipients to conduct enhanced data collection and analysis to make better-informed programmatic decisions that impact the delivery of quality HIV prevention services. HealthHIV partners with a multi-disciplinary team to provide TA that looks comprehensively at the changing healthcare delivery landscape and the impact of the Affordable Care Act and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

The Three D Program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Audience

HealthHIV and the Three D team provide TA to ASO/CBOs, FBOs, HIV clinical care providers, health organizations, health departments, mental health and substance abuse providers, people living with HIV, community foundations and philanthropic entities, academic institutions, and other national organizations that represent stakeholders in HIV prevention. These partners are critical to ensuring delivery of quality, effective HIV prevention services to people living with, or at risk for, HIV in in CDC’s directly funded urban jurisdictions.

Approach

The Three D program provides tailored individualized TA to HIV prevention partners through a variety of methodologies, including:

Distance learning such as webinars/webcasts and online training programs;
Virtual communities of practice and participant forums on the Three D portal
Peer-to-peer TA and model sharing among HIV prevention partners
Individualized TA (in-person and virtual)
Three D Technical Assistance Portal

The Three D Program works with communities to:

Facilitate community infrastructure development and systems coordination to ensure sustainability and continuity of care along the HIV care continuum
Promote workforce development, including training the next generation of leaders in HIV prevention
Expand care team integration through partnership development to include non-clinical HIV prevention partners
Demonstrate cost effectiveness and outcomes monitoring of programs to maximize strengths and efficiencies and impact of health outcomes
Develop systems to improve linkage and retention in care to enhance health outcomes and coordination across the HIV care continuum
Diversify funding of organizations to enhance sustainability

TA Content Areas

Developing systems for third-party billing and reimbursement of HIV prevention services
Data collection, use, and sharing across clinical and non-clinical agencies to improve patient prevention, care, and treatment
Organizational development
Board development
Workforce and leadership development
Utilizing program data and data feedback loops to improve linkage and retention in care
Strategic partnership development between clinical and non-clinical agencies
Strategic planning
Fiscal resource development and diversification