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Resources and Tools

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.

Promoting Equity in Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatments and Supports: A Focus on Black Communities

In recent years, the gap in the rate of opioid overdoses among Black and white Americans has narrowed significantly, with increases in Black mortality driven in part by the addition of synthetic opioids to other drugs.

Webinar Companion Guide: Building Relationships with your Medicaid Agency to Improve HIV and OUD Care
This webinar companion guide provides information for the April 2021 Building Relationships with your Medicaid Agency to Improve HIV and OUD Care webinar.
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.

Substance Use Screening Tools for HIV Service Delivery Settings
This library provides an opportunity for staff to efficiently review multiple validated screening tools and identify those that are most appropriate for their settings.
Big Ideas: Improving the Health of People Who Use Drugs and People in Recovery is Essential for Ending the HIV Epidemic

Achieving the goals of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) Initiative depends on doing more to strengthen communities, reduce the harm associated with drug use, and prevent disease transmission.

App Provides Information, Guidance for Treating OUD

Clinicians can now access up-to-date evidence-based office-based addiction treatment recommendations for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) on a smartphone app.

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.
Legal Interventions to Reduce Overdose Mortality: Naloxone Access Laws

Because of naloxone’s ability to reverse opioid overdose and its ease of use, by July 15, 2017, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had passed legislation to improve naloxone access, as one strategy to reduce opioid overdose morbidity and mortality.

Capacity of Rural Counties to Address an HIV or Hepatitis C Outbreak

This policy brief identified states potentially at risk for an HIV or HCV outbreak and used data from multiple sources to examine rural-urban differences in 1) state-level infectious disease surveillance, prevention activities, and collaboration with stakeholders; 2) local health department-level