Linkage and retention in HIV care: Lessons learned from the Louisiana positive charge access to care initiative

Gamache, Peter

3039.0
From New England to the Deep South and from the Heartland to Hollywood: Local responses to the national call for increased access to HIV care

Monday, November 4, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Oral

Session Objectives: Describe new models of addressing access to care for PLWHA Identify best practices when implementing a local access to care program Describe both individual and systemic barriers to effective HIV treatment engagement

Moderator:

Vignetta E. Charles, PhD

8:30am

Patient centered approaches that strengthen linkage to medical care: Results from the access NY project
Peter Messeri, PhD, Nicole Mylan, Doug Wirth, Maiko Yomogida and Lee Garr

8:45am

Barriers to HIV care cannot be resolved by health care reform alone—lessons learned from an AIDS services organization in Massachusetts
Jeremy Lapedis, MSPH, Lena Asmar, MSW, LICSW, Eileen Dryden, PhD and Justeen Hyde, PhD

9:00am

Care and access network: Beyond linking persons living with HIV/AIDS to primary medical care in los angeles county
Stella Gukasyan, EdM

9:15am

With new eyes: Using telemedicine to dissolve the structural barriers to HIV/AIDS care in the rural southeastern United States
Sandra Percival

9:30am

Linkage and retention in HIV care: Lessons learned from the Louisiana positive charge access to care initiative
Peter Gamache, PhD, MBA, MLA, MPH, Russell Brewer, DrPH, CHES, Sarah Chrestman, MPH, Snigdha Mukherjee, PhD, LaTanya Thompson, MPH Candidate and Sarah Donahue, MPH Candidate

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: HIV/AIDS
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

Online Program

3039.0
From New England to the Deep South and from the Heartland to Hollywood: Local responses to the national call for increased access to HIV care

141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

Online Program

3039.0 From New England to the Deep South and from the Heartland to Hollywood: Local responses to the national call for increased access to HIV care

3039.0
From New England to the Deep South and from the Heartland to Hollywood: Local responses to the national call for increased access to HIV care