• Funding for Part C Capacity Development: Deadline April 7
• Southernwestern Region Training on Integrating Peer Advocates in Care Teams: Houston, April 14-17, New Application Deadline March 14
• TARGET Center: New Faces of Ryan White
• Resources from the AETCs: Pharmacists, Prevention for Positives

OTHER NEWS

• NPIN Offers Funding Information and Other Resources
• Blog on Using New Media to Stop HIV
• SAMHSA Funds for HIV/Substance Abuse Services Targeting Minority Communities: Application Deadline, April 1
• Summaries from CROI

HRSA/HAB NEWS

Funding for Part C Capacity Development: Deadline April 7
HRSA/HAB is requesting applications for the Capacity Development grant program, which is designed to assist public and nonprofit entities in their efforts to strengthen their organizational infrastructure and to enhance their capacity to develop, strengthen, or expand access to high quality HIV primary health care services for people living with HIV or who are at risk of infection in underserved or rural communities and communities of color. Activities supported by this grant funding are not intended for long-term activities. Instead, the activities should be of a short-term nature and should be completed by the end of the one-year project period.

For the purposes of this grant application, capacity development is defined as: Activities that promote organizational infrastructure development and that will lead to the delivery or improvement of HIV primary care services. In this context, the elements of infrastructure development speak to: management systems; service delivery systems; evaluation systems; cultural competency; and self management.

Eligible applicants include public or private nonprofit entities that intend to become an HIV primary care provider agency. These may include State and local governments, their agencies, and Indian Tribes or tribal organizations with or without Federal recognition. Faith-based and community-based organizations are eligible to apply for these grant funds.

Applications are due April 7, 2008.

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One-time Expansion Grants for Part D Programs: Deadline April 8
Funding is available for Part D program that propose to improve or establish 1) dental services (i.e. direct dental services, major dental equipment items, and supplies), 2) an Electronic Medical Records System (EMR), or 3) data collection systems, including client level data, through funding for their Management Information System (MIS). While applicants are not restricted from proposing other activities as appropriate and needed by their program, grantees are strongly encouraged to request funding for one of the three identified areas. Funding available under this announcement is only for current Part D and Part D Youth grantees.

Applications are due April 8, 2008.

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Southwestern Region Training on Integrating Peer Advocates in Care Teams: Houston, April 14-17, New Application Deadline March 1
Cicatelli Associates, through a cooperative agreement with HRSA/HAB, is conducting “Peer Advocates as Essential Members of Multi-Disciplinary Health Care Teams,” an innovative training and technical assistance project to establish best practices on integrating peer advocates in multi-disciplinary teams that deliver health care for people living with HIV. The goal is for peer advocates to work as valued members of HIV health care teams and contribute to improvements in health care access, comprehensiveness, continuity, quality, and cost. Space is still available for the training targeting the Southwestern Region, which will take place in Houston on April 14-17.

The deadline for applications is March 14.

This project will provide training and technical assistance to peer advocates, peer supervisors, and clinic managers working within the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program care and treatment community. In order to receive free training and technical assistance, agencies that participate must commit to the following: 1) sponsoring travel, accommodations, and per diem for the peer advocates, peer supervisor, and clinic manager so they may participate in the training program; 2) participating in all project-related technical assistance activities; and 3) participating in all pre- and post-training/technical assistance evaluation activities.

The training program will be four consecutive days with peer advocates attending the first three days, and peer supervisors and clinic managers attending the last two days. All agencies participating in this project will receive technical assistance following the training program. The technical assistance will include telephone consultations, distribution of resource materials, and virtual learning classrooms.

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TARGET Center: New Faces of Ryan White
Three Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grantees are now gracing the TARGET Center website with their photo. All "Faces" can be found on the TARGET Center main page or within the Ryan White Community state pages.

Miami CHIVES

Miami CHIVES, funded under Ryan White's SPNS program, focuses on peer support in improving retention in care of Caribbeans living with HIV/AIDS. The program was built on three components: 1) daily in-reach via hospital-based peers; 2) training of peers in navigating the hospital system and bridging the English and Haitian Creole-speaking worlds of providers and clients; and 3) peer delivery of education and support for clients.

Cicatelli Associates, New York
Training peer advocates and their supervisors across the nation to engage peers as members of HIV health care teams is the focus of the work of Cicatelli Associates under a cooperative agreement with HRSA/HAB. Both agencies work to ensure that peers are effectively integrated into multi-disciplinary care teams.

People to People, St. Louis/Kansas City
People to People is a HRSA/HAB-supported peer-to-peer education program in the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas that trains peer treatment educators to support clinician efforts to engage and retain people of color in HIV care. Training includes HIV transmission, disease progression, treatment adherence, and clinical preceptorships to address identified needs.

Resources from the AETCs: Pharmacists, Prevention for Positives

Two resources are now available for the AETCs.

The Role of the Pharmacist in HIV Care: A Collection of Monographs
This monograph collection is designed to provide correctional, community, and hospital pharmacists with the most up-to-date HIV clinical information to assist in caring for HIV-infected patients. The series includes three modules: basic antiretroviral overview; drug-drug interactions and the role of the pharmacist; and an HIV guideline overview. This resources was developed by the New York/New Jersey AETC.

Prevention with Positives: Theory into Practice
Provides case studies for addressing prevention issues with HIV-infected clients. This resource was developed by the North Shore University Hospital and New York/New Jersey AETC.

OTHER NEWS

NPIN Offers Funding Information and Other Resources

The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is a reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes, stocks, and disseminates materials and information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB. NPIN also maintains various listservs including the daily “CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update” and the regular “HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Funding Information. Funding opportunities listed often address both prevention and treatment services. For more information on these and other resources go to:

Blog on Using New Media to Stop HIV
AIDS.gov has launched a blog about effective ways of using new media tools in the fight against HIV. Each week, AIDS.gov will cover a different new media topic. Some posts will focus on specific tools (podcasts, mobile applications, wikis), while others are broader in scope, such as 508 compliance and accessibility. Every Tuesday morning AIDS.gov will post information from an interview with leading new media and HIV/AIDS professionals using new media tools. They will summarize the interview and reflect on ways AIDS.gov and others can implement what they’ve learned. Readers are encouraged to submit your own comments. Join the dialogue.

SAMHSA Funds for HIV/Substance Abuse Services Targeting Minority Communities: Application Deadline, April 1
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is requesting applications from community-based organizations that can provide effective substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services targeted to at-risk minority communities. The main purpose of this cooperative agreement program is to assist grantees in building solid foundations for delivering and sustaining cutting edge substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services. This program aims at expanding the capacity of community-level domestic public and private nonprofit prevention service providers to prevent and reduce the onset of substance abuse and HIV transmission among at-risk racial/ethnic minority populations. While grantees will have substantial flexibility in designing their grant projects, all are required to base their projects on the five steps of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework. Successful evidenced-based prevention approaches developed from these cooperative agreements will be shared with other community service groups throughout the country.

Eligible applicants are community-level domestic public and private nonprofit entities. For example, non-profit community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, colleges and universities, health care delivery organizations, local governments, tribal governments, tribal organizations and tribal urban Indian entities are eligible to apply. State government agencies and national organizations are not eligible to apply.

Applications are due April 1, 2008.

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Summaries from CROI

The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections took place February 3-6 in Boston. Podcasts and videocast are now available for many of the sessions. Access them at:

In addition to the resources listed above, don’t forget to check out these other HAB resources, which are updated regularly.

HAB Web Site

TARGET Center, Central Source for Ryan White TA

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