News & Updates

Webcast Lectures

  • Kathy Ecklund from the Forsyth Institute presented the webcast "Sterilization, Disinfection and Other Infection Control Issues" and the audio and slides will be available on our website shortly.

 

ECHO team to present workshops, poster presentations

If you build it, will they come? If they come, will they stay?
Expanding access to dental care
A 45-minute workshop which addresses outreach activities to overcome barriers to dental care for HIV patients, such as distance from providers, stigma, low dental health literacy and past discrimination. This session will describe outreach activities that were successful (and not successful!) at the systems level, provider level and patient level as well as strategies to promote retention in care.

Navigating the road blocks: Using a mobile van to increase access to oral health care
Workshop ID#: ATC-265
A 90-minute workshop which explores the pros and cons of using vans to provide greater access to oral health care for hard-to-reach HIV populations

Dental Case Managers: A role whose time has come
Workshop ID#: ATC-201
A 45-minute workshop which defines the role of dental case managers and illustrates ways in which this new role increases access to oral health care for hard-to-reach HIV populations

ECHO will also be presenting two posters for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Grantee Meeting:

Challenges, Successes, and Accidental Quirks in Establishing HIV Oral Health Programs

Presents some of the accomplishments, challenges and unanticipated events, negative or positive, that have occurred among the 15 SPNS Oral Health demonstration sites as they have established their HIV oral health programs. Information presented is particularly of use in evaluating design and recommending models of care.

On the Road to Increasing Access to HIV Oral Health Care

Presents information on several factors to be considered when developing mobile van programs to provide oral healthcare as they have been experienced by four SPNS Oral Health demonstration projects (Sandhills, University of Miami School of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Lousiana State University's Health Sciences Center). These models may guide the creation of other mobile oral health care programs for people living with HIV in urban and rural areas and other underserved populations.

Oral health care access for people living with HIV/AIDS
Presents baseline data and preliminary results from the HRSA SPNS Oral Health Initiative in which 15 national sites develop innovative strategies for providing oral health care to more than 1000 targeted underserved PLWHA. View abstract on APHA site

Models for expanding access to oral health care services for people living with HIV
This presentation outlines a typology based on 15 innovate SPNS projects to highlight key program characteristics. This typology can assist program planners, medical and dental care providers with service delivery strategies for addressing the unmet need for oral health care in their area for PLWHA as well as other vulnerable populations. View abstract on APHA site