Best Practice Solutions to HIV Prevention at Health Centers

This four-part community of practice is based upon our findings from our Year 2 focus group series on HIV prevention at health centers. Topics will include provider knowledge and comfort, patient perception and stigma, structural barriers to access, and community-specific factors.

Participation Guidelines:

  • Organizations must be FQHCs or FQHC look-alikes to participate.
  • Health center staff will participate actively in all 4 sessions.

Schedule

  • 22 January 2026 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
  • 29 January 2026 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
  • 5 February 2026 2:00pm-3:00pm ET
  • 12 February 2026 2:00pm-3:00pm ET

Session 1: Provider Knowledge and Comfort

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Learning Objectives: Describe the current landscape of PrEP options, Explain how recent updates in PrEP can encourage PrEP provision, Discuss peer-to-peer strategies to increase provider buy-in regarding PrEP provision, Utilize the GOALS framework to take a sexual history.

Session 2: Structural Barriers to Access

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Learning Objectives: Review the impact of integrated models of care on staffing, Discuss task shifting in PrEP programming, Describe the patient experience and opportunities for PrEP engagement, Explain how to leverage telemedicine to increase PrEP provision, Discuss financial resources to support PrEP provision (highlighting what’s currently available without Medicaid Expansion).

Session 3: Patient Perception and Stigma

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Learning Objectives: Explain how stigma can manifest as a barrier to PrEP provision (roots, effects, and types), Describe how to develop an effective PrEP campaign.

Session 4: Cultural and Community-Specific Factors

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Learning Objectives: Explain the causes of medical mistrust surrounding PrEP (concept of trust and trust eroding), Discuss trust-building strategies, Describe how trust-building manifests on an integrated care team.