APHA 1996 Abstract: HIV Primary Care and Computer-Based Distance Learning for Community Health Centers in Rural Mississippi

Presented at: American Public Health Association 124th Annual Meeting, November 1996

HIV Primary Care and Computer-Based Distance Learning for Community Health Centers in Rural Mississippi
Harold Henderson, M.D., Nick Mosca, D.D.S., Cheryl Hamill, R.N. M.S., and Daniel Sarubin, D.D.S., University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Medicine, and University of Mississippi School of Dentistry. The incidence of HIV infection of Mississippi is highest among African-Americans and the uninsured. Rural community health center (CHC) clinics in Mississippi provide primary health care to a large proportion of this segment of the state's population, but are ill-prepared to test, counsel, and treat persons at risk for infection with HIV. Health educators at the University Medical Center (UMC) have organized a series of comprehensive HIV primary care training programs for CHCs using distance learning delivered via computer network from UMC in Jackson. CHC primary care practitioners are provided updated medical references, access to sources of additional HIV funding, and interactive training supervised by HIV specialists at UMC. CHCs in areas of highest HIV prevalence have been targeted.

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