Free Online HIV Training Series
Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center’s Online HIV Training Series is pleased to offer the following
FREE 2-hour webinars. These trainings are designed for HIV providers including:
Substance Use Counselors, Case Managers, Treatment Advocates, Peer Advocates, Mental Health Counselors, Outreach Workers, and Health Educators.
For questions about this series of trainings, please email
cstep@apiwellness.org or call Sardis Rodriguez at 415.292.3420 x 377. Please note, all times are Pacific
HIV Treatment 101: Learn HIV Treatment Fundamentals
Wednesday, August 4, 11:00 AM PDT
To sign up for the "HIV Treatment 101: Learn HIV Treatment Fundamentals" webinar, please visit
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/gvfkby9ich0s
HIV Treatment 101: Learn HIV Treatment Fundamentals is a 2-hour training targeting all HIV and health service providers, peer educators and advocates serving people living with HIV. Priority is given to providers serving racial/ethnic minorities, who have direct patient contact. This training focuses on supporting PLWHA so they may thrive in care. It covers the fundamentals of treatment and adherence, giving participants the foundation needed to participate effectively in treatment teams for PLWHA.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
· Discuss the goals of therapy and treatment strategies for ARV-naïve and ARV-experienced patients with HIV;
· Understand antiretroviral therapy including the goals of treatment, challenges, classes of drugs, and the management of side effects;
· Assess a patient’s readiness to begin taking medications;
· Discuss HIV treatment adherence barriers and strategies to support adherence such as client service plans;
· Discuss ways to manage treatment of side effects and drug interactions;
· Recognize the value of support networks in sustaining treatment adherence:
· Describe how mental health and substance use issues may impact treatment and care;
· Discuss treatment advocacy and ways to empower clients to make choices about HIV treatments that are beneficial and assist them in remaining actively involved and engaged in their personal care program so they can get the most from their health care providers.
To sign up for the "HIV Treatment 101: Learn HIV Treatment Fundamentals" webinar, please visit
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/gvfkby9ich0s
For questions about this series of trainings, please email cstep@apiwellness.org.
Women & HIV
Wednesday, August 11, 11:00 AM PDT
To sign up the "Women & HIV" webinar, please visit
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/4nw94slbj0y5
Women & HIV is a 2-hour training targeting all HIV and health service providers, peer educators and advocates serving people living with HIV.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
· Recognize common gynecological infections in women with HIV
· Learn about pregnancy and HIV
· Become familiar with women-specific treatment issues
To sign up the "Women & HIV" webinar, please visit
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/4nw94slbj0y5
For questions about this series of trainings, please email cstep@apiwellness.org.
HIV Treatment Update:
Know What's New
Wednesday, August 25, 11:00 AM PDT
To sign up the "HIV Treatment Update: Know What's New" webinar, please visit
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/i3m2vec1taut
HIV Treatment Update: Know What’s New is a 2-hour training for HIV and health service providers, peer educators and advocates, proposed to meet the high demand for updated information on the latest advances in HIV treatment. This training will address emerging treatment issues.
By the end of the training, participants will have engaged in some of the following topics:
· New developments in HIV treatment and prevention;
· Newly approved medications and medications in the pipeline;
· Updates to treatment guidelines;
· Vaccine research;
· Pre-exposure prophylaxis and Post-exposure prophylaxis.
To sign up the "HIV Treatment Update: Know What's New" webinar, please visit
https://cc.readytalk.com/r/i3m2vec1taut
For questions about this series of trainings, please email cstep@apiwellness.org.
Awareness and Education
Speakers Bureau
Nebraska has a group of diverse individuals whose lives have been touched directly through
personal experience by HIV/AIDS. We are dedicated to increasing awareness and
educating our communities about this preventable disease.
This is accomplished through the following
efforts:
- Provide a basic understanding of how HIV is transmitted in an
attempt to decrease the fear surrounding this disease.
- Educate through the experience of those living with HIV/AIDS and
the people who love and care for them.
- Increase the awareness that HIV/AIDS affects us all as a global
community, infected or not.
- Promote the idea that those living with HIV/AIDS need understanding
and compassion rather than judgment and that no one "deserves" this disease.
The HIV AIDS pandemic is a fact of life in every community.
Holding an AIDS awareness event with one or more speakers may be an effective
way to educate people in your school, community or religious group about the
effects of HIV AIDS, what individuals can do to prevent its spread and how to
provide help to those afflicted with it.
Contact: Ann Chambers ann.chambers@nebraska.gov for a list of speakers in your area
1. Who is the audience? Who is the sponsor? Your name and a contact person at your site.
Approximate size and type of audience expected or invited.
2. What HIV Regional Advisory Group are you in? click here for a PDF MAP
3. When is the event scheduled or planned? The desired date of the presentation. Is this flexible? What other dates and times would work?
4. Where will the event take place? What time frame do you have?
5. Why do you need a speaker about HIV/AIDS? The educational
services you need such as: basic transmission and prevention, a personal story
from a speaker living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. or other topics related to
the disease.
6. How will you advertise this event? Are there any special requests or needs? Your organization
may need to provide an honorarium for any presentation involving a member of the
Speakers' Bureau. The honorarium can be waived by special arrangements with the Speaker.
Please keep in mind...
The person
booking your engagement accepts the responsibility of matching a speaker with a
requesting agency's educational requirements. In balancing the educational needs
of community groups, requests may be made for speakers with experience similar
to that of the audience.
For example, a
drug/alcohol treatment center might desire a speaker who is in recovery and feel
this person would be most appropriate for the audience based upon thier life
experience.
These requests will be met as long as no exclusion on
the basis of gender, race, physical ability, religion , or sexual orientation.
