Building capacity for HIV prevention workforce excellence.
HealthHIV designs dynamic e-learning courses for community-based organizations, health departments, and healthcare professionals to enhance their skills and support improved health outcomes for people vulnerable to HIV.
Thoughtfully designed to build the capacity and excellence of the HIV prevention workforce, the Center is an all-in-one stop for busy healthcare professionals to enhance their skills with dynamic, interactive trainings, video-based interventions, and Spanish-language offerings to stay on top of new developments in HIV prevention.
Topics explored in courses available through the HealthHIV National HIV E-Learning Training Center include:
- Rapid HIV testing
- PrEP adherence
- PrEP outreach and navigation
- PROMISE intervention
- Sexual history taking
- Condom use and safer sex behaviors
Current E-Learning Courses
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Strengthening Strategies that Support PrEP Adherence
This course helps health department staff and other public health professionals address barriers to adherence, monitor PrEP adherence, and develop partnerships to support adherence. A core part of course content will involve interactive components that help learners develop an action plan tailored to their specific situation.
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Covering Costs of HIV PrEP
During this self-paced e-learning module, participants will review three cost components of HIV PrEP, and sources of insurance, and other key tools that PrEP educators can use to help their clients cover those costs and evaluate different options for covering costs based on the needs of clients in various situations. This module will prepare participants for beginning their work as PrEP educators as well as serve as a refresher for experienced professionals.
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Guiding People in Their Use of PrEP
This course assists staff in community-based organizations, health departments, and other public health professions with knowledge and skills related to building awareness and engagement in PrEP and guiding clients to effectively use PrEP over time.
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Strategies for Implementing Sexual History Taking into Clinical Practice
Strategies for Implementing Sexual History Taking into Clinical Practice is a 60-minute E-Learning module for clinicians and staff who will be introduced to the barriers that commonly impact sexual history taking implementation as well as the strategies for overcoming them to implement it in clinical settings.
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Peers Reaching Out and Modeling Intervention Strategies (PROMISE) for High-Impact Prevention (HIP)
The Peers Reaching Out and Modeling Intervention Strategies (PROMISE) for High-Impact Prevention (HIP) training course prepares public health professionals and community leaders to implement an effective, peer-led HIV prevention intervention.
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Fundamentals of Rapid HIV Testing
This course prepares rapid HIV testing staff to conduct the key steps of rapid HIV testing: setting up a workspace, conducting the rapid HIV test, preparing clients for the test and delivering test results, and conducting quality assurance activities. Participants also have opportunities to reflect on how they can use what they’ve learned and apply it to their current work. Learners may save their reflections for the future as they grow their knowledge in the field.
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Sister to Sister: Take Control of Your Health
This course was developed for clinic-based providers to empower women to reduce their risk for acquiring HIV. This blended course entails a 60-minute, self-paced E-Learning module developed by HealthHIV, followed by an in-person or virtual classroom session hosted by CAI.
Video Interventions
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Cuidándome
La intervención en vídeo, de 30 minutos de duración, está diseñada para abordar el estigma, aumentar la comunicación y capacitar a las personas para que conozcan su estado serológico y tomen el control de su salud. Además del vídeo, se ofrecen materiales suplementarios para promover la intervención y proporcionar información sobre sexo más seguro a los clientes.
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Taking Care of Me
Taking Care of Me is an HIV and STI prevention intervention designed for patients in STI clinic waiting rooms with an updated animation sequence designed by HealthHIV. The 30-minute video-based intervention is designed to address stigma, increase communication, and empower people to know their status and take control of their health.
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A Salvo en la Ciudad
Esta es una intervención de 30 minutos basada en un vídeo cuyo objetivo es aumentar el uso del condón y otros comportamientos sexuales más seguros para reducir las infecciones entre los pacientes que ven el vídeo. Además del vídeo, se proporciona material suplementario para promover la intervención y ofrecer información sobre sexo más seguro a los clientes.
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Safe in the City
This 30-minute, video-based intervention aims to increase condom use and other safer sex behaviors in order to reduce infections among patients who view the video. In addition to the video, supplemental materials are provided to promote the intervention and to provide safer sex information for clients.
