Addressing the Needs of Those Most Vulnerable to HIV: Ninth Volume of eHIV Review Reveals the Care Needs of Special Populations
NEW YORK (2/19/2024) – DKBmed, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, is releasing the ninth volume of the eHIV Review. This new volume, which will consist of six journal briefs and six case-based podcasts, endeavors to help clinicians take meaningful action to reduce the burden of HIV.
More information at ehivreview.org
The international community has committed to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. In order to achieve this goal, clinicians will require continuing education on how to address the diverse, challenging care needs of patients living with HIV. Although we now have highly effective medications to prevent and treat HIV infection, they will not work when barriers impede their rapid, regular, and sustained use. Some specific populations that encounter significant barriers include people who are or were incarcerated, are not stably housed, are migrating from other countries, or are residents in rural communities. Strategies to improve outcomes have been identified, with various levels of evidence supporting their use. Clinicians must be educated about the most effective means of reaching people in these and similar populations. Additionally in need of specialized long-term treatment are women living with HIV, who require assistance managing contraception, pregnancy. and the postnatal period. Currently, survey data suggest that fewer than 1 in 6 (13%) clinicians caring for patients with HIV are “very knowledgeable” on these topics that reside at the intersection of infectious disease and women’s reproductive health.
“As the world gradually moves past the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important that we continue our work to reduce the remaining health disparities that persist with the decades-long HIV epidemic. Although HIV affects people of all kinds, creeds, and backgrounds, there are particular patient subpopulations that demand highly individualized care because of their other health challenges,” notes Justin Alves, RN, FNP-BC, AACRN, CARN, CNE, Nurse Educator at Boston Medical Center and eHIV Review Program Director “Through the ninth volume of the eHIV Review, I hope providers will learn how to better accommodate their patients and make use of the exciting treatments that are continually emerging and gaining approval.”
The journal briefs for the eHIV review will be written by guest authors with expertise on pertinent issues in HIV; each journal brief will be accompanied by a case-based podcast featuring the same guest author. The ninth volume of the eHIV Review will additionally feature a section with interviews from four patients discussing their lived experiences with HIV management and prevention. Topics of interest that will be covered in Volume 9 of the eHIV Review are:
- Exploring the evidence around newer therapies for the prevention and treatment of HIV
- Addressing substance use disorders in people living with HIV, with a particular focus on cigarette smoking, alcohol, and opioids
- Screening patients living with HIV for common coinfections, namely tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and hepatitis D
- Devising individualized care interventions for people from marginalized backgrounds, such as those who were formerly incarcerated
- Supplying adequate reproductive healthcare for people living with HIV
- Examining the specific needs of older adults living with HIV, along with associated challenges in this population such as diagnostic delays and comorbidities
Disclosure of Support
This program is supported by educational grants provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc. and Viiv Healthcare.
About DKBmed
DKBmed is an integrated continuing medical education company operated by a team of medical education experts. DKBmed provides health care professionals with effective medical education that closes identified knowledge and practice gaps to improve patient health.Working with accredited providers, DKBmed develops innovative educational programs and quality improvement (QI) initiatives and specializes in bringing new learning methodologies to the CME landscape. DKBmed has become a leader in QI in the independent medical education space with QI projects in pain management, HIV, depression, and diabetic retinopathy. DKBmed was also an early adopter of case scenarios with recorded and live actors, TED/DKBmed Talks, 3D animation, webcasts, podcasts, e-mail, and mobile phone applications for clinicians and patients. These forward-thinking approaches enable health care professionals to learn using state-of-the-art techniques and access educational programs in a manner that is most convenient and appropriate for them.
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