HCV Care & Prevention Across the HIV Continuum: Capacity Building Training for Healthcare Professionals in Pennsylvania
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Description
This engaging, virtual capacity-building session will focus on enhancing knowledge of Hepatitis treatment and prevention within the context of the HIV continuum. Through interactive activities and expert-led discussions, participants will explore key topics such as the intersection of HCV & HIV, the management of comorbidities, disease prevention, epidemiology, disease progression, screening protocols, and integrated treatment approaches.
SPEAKER:
Katie Huynh, CRNP
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this training, the learner will be able to:
- Discuss the intersection of HCV and HIV in coinfected patients.
- Review HCV/HIV coinfection epidemiology in Pennsylvania.
- Discuss the CDC’s Viral Hepatitis Strategic Plan and its framework for improving patient outcomes.
- Compare and contrast Hepatitis A, B, and C pathogenesis, symptoms, modes of transmission, and associated risk factors.
- Discuss HBV & HCV stages of disease progression and their impact on HIV care.
- Describe screening indications and testing methods for viral hepatitis.
- Identify treatment regimens for viral hepatitis and ART considerations.
- Identify different viral hepatitis prevention strategies.
- Discuss best practice approaches for HCV/HIV risk reduction.
- Discuss overdose prevention in people who are using drugs.
- Demonstrate the ability to link clients with or at high risk for HCV into care and prevention services.
- Identify best-practice approaches for HIV linkage to care, retention, and reengagement.
- Define program collaboration and service integration (PCSI) as a public health approach and describe its role in HCV/HIV care equity.
- Discuss methods for integrating HCV screening and treatment into HIV care using the PCSI framework.
ACCREDITATION
You are only eligible for continuing education or a certificate of attendance if you register, attend the full program, and then complete all required evaluations.
Social Work: This training is co-sponsored by the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research for maximum of 3.5 credit hours. As a CSWE accredited program, Bryn Mawr College GSSWSR is a pre-approved provider of continuing education for Social Workers in Pennsylvania and many other states. Supported by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau, Office of Program Support.
Continuing Nursing Education (CNE): The MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Approver Unit an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This event is eligible for 3.5 credit hours.
Continuing Education credits issued for participation in CE activity may not apply toward license renewal in all states. It is the responsibility of each participant to verify the requirements of their state licensing board(s).
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE:
Please complete a post-evaluation, which will be sent to you via email within 24 hours after the completion of this program from maaetc@pitt.edu. Please note that after completing the evaluation, your general certificate of attendance will be automatically generated and stored in your profile on our website. Simply click my profile, post-event evaluations, and once the training’s evaluation has been completed, you should be able to click the certificate button next to the event to download.
Questions:
Email Tiania Warner, M.S.- twarner@healthfederation.org
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
DISCLAIMER:
Funding for this presentation was made possible in part by TR7HA53201 from the Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Any trade/brand names for products mentioned during this presentation are for training and identification purposes only.
Intended Audience
Please note that this session is open to HIV service providers and healthcare providers within the state of Pennsylvania. If you are interested in similar trainings for your team, please contact us at maaetc@pitt.edu
Topics
A variety of the listed topics will be discussed at this event.
- Behavioral Prevention
- Basic science
- HIV epidemiology
- Linkage to Care
- Hepatitis C
- Care coordination
