HIV PrEP Navigation Certification Program (HIVPNC)
As the need for HIV prevention services continues to grow, expanding and strengthening the PrEP navigation workforce remains essential.
The updated HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program prepares providers and allied health professionals to guide community members in initiating, using, and staying engaged in PrEP care.
This enhanced 2025 program now includes nine modules, all updated with current clinical guidance, real-world navigation strategies, client-centered approaches, and recurring case examples that reflect the experiences of navigators in the field.
By participating in this free, one-of-a-kind program, learners will:
- Demonstrate their commitment to delivering patient-centered PrEP navigation services
- Develop skills to educate clients about PrEP and identify appropriate prevention options
- Help clients access and maintain PrEP through insurance navigation, financial assistance, and ongoing support
- Strengthen long-term engagement across the PrEP continuum
- Earn a HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification upon successful program completion
- Receive up to 5.0 CME/CE credits (CME, MOC, AAPA, NCPD, CPE, ASWB)
Upon successful completion of all modules in this program, participants earn their HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) and receive a listing in the national online directory of HIVPNCs.
What’s new in 2025?
The update and recertification of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program was released on December 15, 2025. There are a few key updates to be aware of:
- An expanded nine-module curriculum
- Updated clinical content, PrEP modalities, and prevention tools
- New guidance on insurance coverage, access models, and financial support programs
- Integrated case scenarios throughout the course
- Practical tips from experienced navigators
- A dedicated module focused on self-care and healthy team culture
- Fully updated continuing education accreditation for all modules
Target Audience
This program is designed for PrEP navigators, disease intervention specialists, case managers, social workers, health educators, and other allied health professionals who support clients at risk for HIV. Physicians, PAs, NPs, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians involved in PrEP care are encouraged to participate.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Describe the barriers patients face to initiating and adhering to PrEP and how providers and PrEP navigation staff can address these challenges through the health system
- Summarize best practices for guiding patients to access PrEP medication, labs and clinic visits based on national and regional programming, industry-sponsored assistance programs, and insurance coverage
- Establish safe spaces, deliver client-centered, culturally sensitive services and culturally- and linguistically-sensitive communication to help patients effectively navigate the PrEP care continuum
Course Overview
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HIVPNC Module 1 | Centering Clients in Program Services
Module 1 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module introduces the HIVPNC coaching model and outlines client-centered care practices that frontline workers can use to engage community members.
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HIVPNC Module 2 | Identifying Populations to Raise Awareness About PrEP
Module 2 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes disparities in HIV burden, gaps in PrEP use across populations, and available data sources that help identify communities who may benefit from PrEP.
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HIVPNC Module 3 | Educating Clients on HIV Prevention and PrEP
Module 3 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes the HIV prevention toolbox and the effectiveness, use, and limitations of available PrEP options to support client education.
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HIVPNC Module 4 | Assessing Client Needs, Preferences, and Health Coverage
Module 4 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes relationship-building approaches and assessments that help navigators gather client information, including financial and insurance status.
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HIVPNC Module 5 | Reviewing Health Coverage Policies Around PrEP Access
Module 5 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes health coverage policies, strategies, and best practices to help clients understand their PrEP coverage options and available resources.
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HIVPNC Module 6 | Linking Clients to PrEP Services
Module 6 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes methods for locating PrEP-friendly providers and strategies to resolve coverage or access issues before the client’s first PrEP visit.
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HIVPNC Module 7 | Starting PrEP and Related Clinical Services
Module 7 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes the steps involved in starting PrEP, including required tests, acute HIV symptom recognition, dosing, drug interactions, and side-effect management.
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HIVPNC Module 8 | Continuing On, Switching, or Stopping PrEP
Module 8 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes routine PrEP care screenings and strategies to support adherence, manage missed doses or refills, and stop PrEP safely.
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HIVPNC Module 9 | Promoting Self-Care and Building Healthy Teams
Module 9 of the HealthHIV HIV PrEP Navigation Certification (HIVPNC) Program. This module describes practices that frontline workers can use to promote self-care, recognize vicarious trauma, and cultivate a healthy team environment.
Accreditation, Credit, and Support
In support of improving patient care, HealthHIV is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credits/Contact Hours
All modules are certified and participants can earn up to 5.0 Credits/Contact Hours (CME, MOC, NCPD, AAPA, CPE, ASWB) for completion of the certification program (9 modules).
Target Audience
This program is designed for PrEP navigators, disease intervention specialists, case managers, social workers, health educators, and other allied health professionals who support clients at risk for HIV. Physicians, PAs, NPs, nurses, pharmacists, and other clinicians involved in PrEP care are encouraged to participate.
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Enduring Material
Release Date
December 15, 2025
Expiration Date
December 15, 2026
Time to Complete
Each module requires approximately 30 minutes to complete, with the exception of Module 5, which requires 1 hour. The total estimated time to complete the full certification program is 5 hours.
HealthHIV designates each module, with the exception of Module 5, for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Module 5 is designated for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.5 MOC points per module in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Maintenance of Certification program. Module 5 enables the participant to earn 1.0 MOC point. It is the responsibility of the CME activity provider to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.
Participation information will be shared with the ACCME’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).
HealthHIV has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. Each module, with the exception of Module 5, is designated for 0.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Module 5 is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credit. Approval is valid until 12/15/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Successful completion of each nursing continuing professional development activity will result in 0.5 contact hours for Modules 1 through 4 and Modules 6 through 9. Module 5 will be awarded 1.0 contact hour.
HealthHIV designates each module, with the exception of Module 5, for 0.5 contact hour (0.05 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit through the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Module 5 is designated for 1.0 contact hour (0.1 CEU).
Type of Activity: Knowledge
Module 1: Centering Clients in Program Services
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Module 2: Identifying Populations to Raise Awareness About PrEP
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Module 3: Educating Clients on HIV Prevention and PrEP
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Module 4: Assessing Client Needs, Preferences, and Health Coverage
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Module 5: Reviewing Health Coverage Policies Around PrEP Access
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Module 6: Linking Clients to PrEP Services
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Module 7: Starting PrEP and Related Clinical Services
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Module 8: Continuing on, Switching, or Stopping PrEP
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Module 9: Promoting Self-Care and Building Healthy Teams
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As a Jointly Accredited Organization, HealthHIV is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses are approved under this program. Regulatory boards have the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this program receive 5.0 general continuing education credits.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team. Learners will receive 0.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for Modules 1 through 4 and Modules 6 through 9 for learning and change. Module 5 will qualify for 1.0 IPCE credit.
This program has been supported by an independent educational grant from ViiV Healthcare.
This program has continued support from Gilead Sciences, Inc.
The planners and content/peer reviewers from HealthHIV, the accredited provider, do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.
HealthHIV is committed to providing high quality continuing education to healthcare professionals, as individuals and teams, with a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from ineligible companies that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education. To that end, HealthHIV requires faculty, presenters, planners, staff, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this CE activity to disclose all financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies as defined by the ACCME, as related to the content of this CE activity, regardless of the amount or their view of the relevance to the education. All identified COI will be thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to HealthHIV policy. These disclosures will be provided to learners prior to the start of the CE activity.
Patrick Ingram, MHSA
PrEP Navigation and HIV Advocate, St. Paul, MN
Patrick Ingram, MHSA has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.
Leo Sheridan
Capacity Building Assistance Manager and PrEP Navigator, HealthHIV, Washington, DC
Leo Sheridan has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.
Alan McCord
Senior eLearning Specialist, HealthHIV, Washington, DC
Alan McCord has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.
K. Daniel Reed
Community Prevention Coordinator, ACR Health, Syracuse, NY
K. Daniel Reed has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.
Melissa Badowski, PharmD, MPH, FCCP, BCIDP, BCPS, FIDSA, AAHIVP
Clinical Professor, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
Melissa Badowski, PharmD, MPH, FCCP, BCIDP, BCPS, FIDSA, AAHIVP has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.
Anirrudha (Anu) Hazra, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Anirrudha (Anu) Hazra, MD, has a financial interest/relationship or affiliation in the form of:
• Consultant/Advisor: Gilead Sciences, ViiV Healthcare
• Research Funding: Gilead Sciences
Jorian Rivera
PrEP Navigation and HIV Advocate, Baltimore, MD
Jorian Rivera has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose for this educational activity.
This educational activity may contain discussions of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this CE activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the CE activity are those of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this CE activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this CE activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patients’ conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
There are no fees for participating in or receiving credit for this CE activity. In order to receive credit, learners must participate in the entire CE activity, complete the post-test and activity evaluation form and your certificate of credit will be generated. A passing score of 80% or higher is needed to obtain credit. Your certificate will be available on eHealthHIV.org. If you have questions regarding your certificate, please contact Beth Brooks via email at [email protected].
For information on applicability and acceptance of continuing education credit for this CE activity, please consult your professional licensing board.
For Physicians requesting MOC credit, the post-test and evaluation are required in their entirety as well as your Board Unique ID number, DOB (MM/DD), and a score of 80% or higher is needed to obtain MOC credit (75% is required for ABS).
For Pharmacists, HealthHIV will accept your completed evaluation form for up to 30 days post-activity and will report your participation to the NABP only if you provide your NABP e-Profile number and DOB (MM/DD). Within 6 weeks, you can view your participation record at the NABP website: https://nabp.pharmacy/.
HealthHIV is responsible for the selection of this activity’s topics, the preparation of editorial content, and the distribution of this CE activity. Our activities may contain references to unapproved products or uses of these products in certain jurisdictions. The preparation of this activity is supported by educational grants subject to written agreements that clearly stipulate and enforce the editorial independence of HealthHIV.
The materials presented here are used with the permission of the authors and/or other sources.
If you have any questions related to educational credits, including the type or amount of credit awarded, reporting of credits to certifying boards, or general accreditation-related inquiries, please contact the Accreditation Team at [email protected]. A member of our team will be happy to assist you.
If you are experiencing issues accessing or downloading your certificate of completion, or if you have questions specifically about your individual certificate, please reach out directly to Beth at [email protected].
Questions and Answers
What if I have trouble logging in/accessing a course on eHealthHIV.org?
If you are a US-based provider, you may be asked to create and/or update your profile before enrolling. Please be sure all required fields are completed in the profile form before selecting submit. If you are a non-US provider, and are having trouble accessing a course, please know that our learning management system will soon be configured to accommodate learners from other countries outside the US.
What if I am a non-US provider?
We are working to ensure support for international learners, and will provide more information about accessing our courses soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to access courses or have questions about access, please email [email protected] or [email protected].
How do I find my certificate?
Please ensure you have completed a course’s post-test (if applicable) and evaluation survey before choosing the activity to obtain your certificate of completion. Your certificate of completion may take a few days to arrive by email, and it may be directed to a junk or spam folder.
Is the program free?
You may access this program, and all of HealthHIV’s certification programs, at no cost.
