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Resources and Tools

A Systems Approach to an Integrated HIV and Opioid Use Disorder Workforce

State health departments must dedicate staff and time to ensure a consistent approach to HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) service delivery. For some states, this means creating new staff roles.

Using Data Partnerships to Integrate HIV and Opioid Use Disorder Services

Data partnerships help coordinate HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) services across state programs. These relationships can help state agencies identify service overlap and gaps, identify common goals, and initiate collaboration.

Guide for Developing HIV and Opioid Use Disorder Service Inventories and Using Geographic Mapping

This guide offers considerations for how state agency staff can develop and maintain an accessible, HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) service inventory. This guide can be used by state agency HIV and OUD staff to:

Coordinating Systems of Care for HIV and Opioid Use Disorder: A Systematic Review of Enablers and Barriers to Integrated Service Access, and Systems and Tools Required for Implementation

Individuals who have HIV who also use drugs experience increased age-matched morbidity and mortality in comparison with those with HIV who do not use drugs.

State Strategies in Action: Building Relationships with Your State Medicaid Agency to Support Peer Services

This document describes the critical role that peers have in developing and delivering care for people with HIV and OUD and how a state’s Medicaid program can serve as an essential fiscal resource in supporting peer services.

Episode 4: Meeting Clients Where They Are: Providing HIV Prevention and Treatment on the Frontlines

For Boston Health Care for the Homeless nurse Megan Sonderegger, providing client-centered care means literally meeting her clients where they are.

Episode 3: Reaching those who need it most: HIV prevention for people who inject drugs

There are so many factors that impact adherence and health outcomes. During this Connecting Care podcast, Drs. Alex Walley, Jessica Taylor, and Sim Kimmel discuss HIV prevention and treatment among people who inject drugs.

Episode 2: HIV Services for People Who Inject Drugs
When people learn there's a pill that's been available for many years, that will keep them safe from HIV. They are surprised and may want to know more. And when people are surprised and even upset, we know we need to do more.
Connecting Care Podcast: The Intersection of HIV and OUD in the time of COVID

COVID-19 has changed the way society operates in countless ways. During our inaugural podcast, our team of addiction specialists and HIV providers, Drs.

Virtual Session Summary: Let's Talk about SSPs as Essential Services

This virtual session summary describes key takeaways from the August 2020 Let's Talk about SSPs as Essential Services conversation.