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Resources and Tools

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:

Episode 10: Disclosing a New HIV Diagnosis and Starting HIV Antiretroviral Therapy in People with Active Substance Use

The growing opioid crisis across the United States has resulted in an increase in new HIV diagnoses.

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.

HIV Infection and HIV-Associated Behaviors Among Persons Who Inject Drugs — 23 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, United States, 2018

This CDC report provides updated data related to HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs, documenting findings that underscore the need for low-barrier access to comprehensive and integrated needs-based syringe service programs for necessary prevention and

National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center Training Deck on Harm Reduction and Syringe Access

This PowerPoint slide deck reviews the foundations of harm reduction philosophy and practice, summarizes drug user health issues and trends, and aims to increase cultural competence and humility when working with people who use drugs.

Federal Overdose Prevention Strategy

This newly released national strategy confronts the rising rates of opioid and non-opioid related fatal overdoses.

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.

Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary HIV Care — Covering the Bases

This tool aims to assist HIV primary care teams that work in a range of clinical settings to develop and provide enhanced integration of behavioral health (BH) services.

Words Matter: The Power of Language to Strengthen Services for HIV and Substance Use Disorder

This discussion guide is intended to elicit a comprehensive and concrete conversation about language, stigma, and discrimination as a means of strengthening care systems and ensuring that people who seek care for HIV and/or substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder, are treated with

Recovery Support Services Along the Continuum of Substance Use and HIV Treatment

This ready-to-use training package is designed to provide HIV providers (including physicians, dentists, nurses, therapists, social workers, counselors, specialists, and case managers) with an overview of the challenges and strategies for change in working with