Goal
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To
reduce the perinatal transmission of HIV. |
Objectives |
- Enhance
provider capacity to provide appropriate services for women at the community
level.
- Improve
provider capacity for outreach, counseling, testing and care for women
of childbearing age for early identification and linkage to care for
pregnant women.
- Enhance
providers' abilities to provide AZT for HIV positive pregnant women.
- Ensure
funding and dissemination of innovative models of care that evaluate
all of the major care and service goals listed in this plan: effectively
educated providers, increased access to and quality of care, reduction
of perinatal transmission of HIV.
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Action
Steps
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- Establish
the Women's Initiative for HIV Care for Women and Reduction of Perinatal
Transmission (WIN).
- Establish
ongoing WIN Steering Committee.
- Provide
technical assistance to grantees.
- Conduct
centralized training for all WIN sites with follow-up local training.
- Collaborate
with Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) to develop
local guidelines.
- Establish
MCHB working group to coordinate HIV risk reduction related efforts
across programs.
- Distribute
counseling and testing guidance, AHCPR consumer brochure and video,
and other PHS documents to MCHB community.
- Review
currently funded SPNS projects to identify gaps in project coverage
for future Requests for Applications (RFAs).
- Evaluate
sites.
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Descriptions
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Enhance
outreach for HIV counseling and testing. Improve service linkages for
women of childbearing age in an ongoing care system and to reduce perinatal
HIV transmission. PHS 076 Implementation Plan.
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Resources
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FY95
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FY96
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FY96
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$
1.5 million
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$
1.8 million
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$
1.9 million
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Populations
Served
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CARE Act
grantees. Adolescent and adult women and their infants, with special attention
for pregnant women in addition to maternal and child health (MCH) and
HIV providers.
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Constituency
Involvement
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Health
care providers, evaluation researchers, communication experts, and patient
advocates. There is also consumer participation in WIN steering committee
and projects advisory boards in addition to linkages with other HRSA grantees
including those from Ryan White CARE Act and Special Projects of National
Significane programs.
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