Informational Updates

What's New In HIV/AIDS

This half-day training will provide updated information for non-clinical staff about advances in a wide range of issues related to HIV/AIDS.

Programs are updated regularly to address emerging issues and will cover various topics ranging from:

  • Changes in policy and regulation that affect the HIV/AIDS community;
  • Advances in care and treatment for HIV/AIDS;
  • New information about prevention strategies and programs; and
  • Other critical issues in HIV/AIDS care and support services.

Prerequisite: Attendance at a basic training in HIV/AIDS, such as the "Overview of HIV Infection and AIDS", is required.

Audience: All health and human service providers.

Date Location Registration Center
January 27 Buffalo ARC
February 11 Queens ACRIA
February 23 Newburgh ARCS
February 25 Johnson City STAP
March 2 Manhattan Cicatelli
March 23 Brooklyn ACRIA
April 6 Rochester CHBT
April 22 Bronx ACRIA
May 18 Hawthorne ARCS
June 1 Hempstead CPHE
June 17 Syracuse REACH
June 18 Manhattan NDRI

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HIV/AIDS Treatment Update

This half-day training will provide updated information for non-clinical providers about advances in HIV/AIDS treatment. Programs are updated regularly to address emerging issues and will cover various topics ranging from:

  • New developments in Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)
  • Newly approved (or soon to come) medications;
  • Vaccine research;
  • Drug resistance and resistance testing;
  • Drug/drug interactions;
  • Updates to treatment guidelines; and
  • The role of the non-clinical provider in supporting decisions around treatment.

Prerequisite: Prior attendance at a basic training, such as "Overview of HIV Infection and AIDS", is required.

Audience: All health and human service providers who work with people with HIV/AIDS.

Date Location Registration Center
February 4 Brooklyn ACRIA
March 5 Manhattan Cicatelli
March 11 Bronx ACRIA
April 6 Manhattan ACRIA
April 8 Hawthorne ARCS
May 14 Manhattan Cicatelli
June 3 Brooklyn ACRIA

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HIV Treatment Fraud

This half-day skills program will prepare participants to educate HIV positive consumers on how to evaluate health claims and identify health fraud. Participants will receive strategies for working with consumers to address treatment fraud.

Topics to be covered include:

  • HIV/AIDS treatment fraud and its impact on consumers;
  • Tips on how to help consumers identify treatment fraud;
  • Challenges of discussing HIV/AIDS treatment fraud; and
  • A new consumer handbook entitled, "Too Good to be True? What You Need to Know to Avoid HIV/AIDS Treatment Fraud.:

Prerequisite: None

Audience: All health and human service providers including: treatment educators, case managers, community educators, client advocates and other providers who work with HIV positive consumers.

Date Location Registration Center
February 10 Hawthorne ARCS

OASAS: The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute is an OASAS Certified Education and Training Provider. This course is approved for initial credentialing and renewal of CASAC, CPP and CPS for 3.0 clock hours.*

*Course are not approved for initial credentialing for CPS.

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HIV & Hepatitis C Co-Infection

More than 25% of people living with HIV in the US are coinfected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Among people who acquired HIV as a result of injection drug use, the rates of HIV/HCV co-infection may be as high as 90%. HCV screening is recommended for persons infected with HIV. Health and human services providers who work with people living with HIV need updated information about HIV/HCV coinfection in order to provide effective services to their clients.

As a result of this half-day training, participants will be able to:

  • Recall basic information about the liver and hepatitis C, including transmission, prevention, course of illness, screening and treatment;
  • Counsel their HIV positive clients about the importance of knowing their HCV status;
  • Describe how coinfection with HIV and HCV affects the progression of each disease;
  • Recall current trends and improvements in treatment for people who are coinfected with HIV and HCV; and
  • List at least three additional service needs of people with HIV who are also coinfected with HCV.

Prerequisite: Although there is no prerequisite for this training, it is strongly recommended that participants have previous training in HIV/AIDS.

Audience: All health and human services providers including: nurses, HIV/STD counselors, substance abuse counselors, case managers, case management technicians, prevention specialists and outreach workers.

Date Location Registration Center
February 2 Rochester CHBT
February 12 Manhattan Cicatelli
February 25 Newburgh ARCS
March 4 Buffalo ARC
March 18 Queens ACRIA
April 20 Hawthorne ARCS
May 6 Bronx ACRIA
June 11 Manhattan NDRI
June 15 Syracuse REACH

OASAS: The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute is an OASAS Certified Education and Training Provider. This course is approved for initial credentialing and renewal of CASAC, CPP and CPS for 3.0 clock hours.*

*Course are not approved for initial credentialing for CPS.

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