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Posted 10/14/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
The workshop presented strategies to integrate HIV, hepatitis, and sexual health concerns into services for PWID. The session will focus on communication skills, assessment techniques, and building motivation among PWID to make healthier choices. Mr. Sacco looked at programmatic and clinical-level integration strategies and offered participants an opportunity to assess current service delivery models and develop a plan to enhance care. Mrs. Bell and Ms. Chavis intrdoduce participants to resources and funding opportunities available through HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB).
Posted 10/14/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
Participants learned evidenced-based harm reduction strategies to keep people who use opioids and psychostimulants alive with reduced disease burden. Presenters discussed methods of engaging people who actively use opioids and/or psychostimulants, harm reduction interventions, overdose prevention and response, overamping prevention and response, and linkages to care.
Robert Childs, MPH, JBS International
Christine Rodriguez, MPH, Vital Strategies
Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This RSV Breakout Session was held in the Independence Ballroom on Wednesday, March 5, 2020, at 2:30 PM
Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This RSV Breakout Session was held in the Mt. Vernon Square Room on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at 2:45 PM
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
Sonoran Prevention Works (SPW) shared some of its experiences implementing harm reduction in Cochise County, one of the more rural counties in AZ. SPW provides street-based outreach, testing, and peer support; offers training, education, and technical assistance and TA; and engages in local and state advocacy work.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
This workshop defined SDOH and discuss how they contributed to successful community engagement in rural communities. Case studies were used to share principles, theories, strategies, and lessons learned from implementing teenage pregnancy, SUD, and HIV/AID prevention projects in rural Georgia counties.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
This presentation provided an overview of the (1) current U.S. prevalence of opioid abuse and OUD and their societal consequences, (2) impacts of the opioid epidemic on rural geographic areas and populations, (3) recent emergence of synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl) and xylazine in the U.S. drug supply, and (4) most empirically supported treatment for patients with OUD.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
RSV 2023: 9:00 - 10:45 a.m. Welcome and Keynote Address (Day 1)
Posted 6/7/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Public transit and health care should be closely linked. Often that is not happening. This session addressed how community partnerships between the health care and transportation sectors develop and can be encouraged.
Posted 6/7/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Stigma and bias among community members, health care providers, and even family members toward individuals with substance use disorder negatively affects the care provided to this population. Stigma prevents individuals from seeking treatment and continues to divide them from their families, their communities, and the evidence-based treatments available.