Training and Infrastructure-Advocacy Model

While training is integral to almost all projects, seven have identified training as their most important element.

Seven projects aim to increase the capacity of local health and social support service systems to provide appropriate, quality services for individuals with HIV/AIDS. The projects in this group are using service system development methods through training and technical assistance to change the service provider infrastructure, as well as the community context in which services are delivered.

Center for Women Policy Studies
The Metro DC Collaborative for Women with HIV – a collaboration with PROTOTYPES – reduced barriers to care for women with HIV through organizational collaboration and inclusion of women with HIV, their providers, and advocates in policy development.

Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University developed and implemented educational models for increasing, improving, and updating knowledge about HIV infection and treatment among Georgia's correctional healthcare providers.

Health Initiatives for Youth
HIFY provided training to health and human service providers on offering developmentally and culturally appropriate care for HIV-affected youth and young adults ages 12-25.

Hektoen Institute/Cook County Hospital
The project worked to insure HIV education, counseling and testing by consent in all family planning and perinatal sites in Cook County (at 69 hospitals) to guarantee on-going care for identified women living with HIV and their families.

Indiana Community AIDS Action Network
ICAAN helped to reduce discriminatory barriers to employment, care, housing, and other social services faced by individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons
ICPS expanded access to health services for HIV-positive Hispanic populations by training Hispanic healthcare providers active in screening, testing, counseling and managing their patients at-risk or already HIV infected.

Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
The MPAS project trained community advocates throughout the state on HIV/AIDS issues to improve service delivery systems with an emphasis placed on the legal rights of individuals with HIV/AIDS.

Missouri Department of Health
The Missouri Department of Health developed and implemented an “Integrated Model of Care” for individuals with HIV/AIDS multiply diagnosed with a mental illness and/or substance abuse problems.

State University of New York at Brooklyn
The project at SUNY Brooklyn increased counseling and testing of pregnant women and perinatal AZT protocols.

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
This project evaluated the impact and cost effectiveness of alternate innovative educational methodologies for increasing service delivery to at-risk and HIV-seropositive individuals in rural areas.

University of Mississippi Medical Center
This project provided clinical training for rural healthcare providers with a computer-based distance learning system.

University of Texas Health Sciences Center
The University of Texas helped to positively impact changes in the service delivery systems for families living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS throughout South Texas.

University of Washington AIDS Education and Training Center
This project educated primary care providers, mental health staff, and volunteers to develop, test, and evaluate strategies for increasing, improving, and updating knowledge about HIV neuropsychiatric illness with specific emphasis on delirium and its treatment.