5 results match your criteria: "Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center[Affiliation]"
Evaluation of a computer-based and counseling support intervention to improve HIV patients' viral loads.
AIDS Care
December 2018
j Department of Medicine , Baylor College of Medicine, Houston , TX , USA.
We sought to integrate a brief computer and counseling support intervention into the routine practices of HIV clinics and evaluate effects on patients' viral loads. The project targeted HIV patients in care whose viral loads exceeded 1000 copies/ml at the time of recruitment. Three HIV clinics initiated the intervention immediately, and three other HIV clinics delayed onset for 16 months and served as concurrent controls for evaluating outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCE: Nursing in the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic.
Am J Nurs
March 2014
Whitney Marie Starr is an assistant professor and Lucy Bradley-Springer is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in Aurora. Whitney Marie Starr has served as a consultant for Gilead Sciences, a manufacturer of drugs for infectious diseases, some of which are discussed in this article. Lucy Bradley-Springer received a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to fund the Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center, a program initiated in 1988 to educate health care providers in eight states about HIV infection. Through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program, she works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to teach health coaches in six clinics throughout the country about ways to help HIV-infected patients prevent HIV transmission, remain in care, and practice medication adherence. She owns stock in Johnson and Johnson and Merck. Products manufactured by these companies are discussed in this article. Contact author: Lucy Bradley-Springer, AJN's peer review process has determined this article to be objective and free of commercial bias. The planners have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
HIV has evolved over the past 30 years from a virtual death sentence to a chronic and manageable disease. Nurses in the United States have helped to change the epidemic through advocacy, education, care, and support for people living with HIV infection. They have contributed to the expansion of HIV prevention methods, provided support to this population and their families, and helped make HIV treatments more effective and efficient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevention with HIV-infected men: recommendations for practice and research.
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care
January 2007
Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center, and Health Sciences Center, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
In the United States in 2004, 74% of the new AIDS cases and 70% of the new HIV cases were in men; in addition, 75% of the cases of HIV in women were classified as heterosexually acquired. These numbers make it clear that expanded prevention efforts for men who are infected with HIV would make a large contribution to containing the epidemic. This report explores epidemiologic and psychosocial issues related to prevention in men with HIV and compares how those variables relate to prevention efforts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHard-to-reach providers: targeted HIV education by the national AIDS education and training centers.
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care
January 2004
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center, Denver, USA.
A national system of AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) has received federal funding since 1987 to provide education to health care personnel (HCP) about HIV infection. The purpose of this study is to describe how AETC program personnel define and recognize HCP who are hard to reach and educate about HIV and to clarify the issues that make providers hard to reach. Twenty-three semistructured telephone interviews were used to collect data from AETC faculty and staff.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHIV prevention: what works?
Am J Nurs
June 2001
Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA.