New England Region AIDS Education and Training Center Program(s) (AETC)

The purpose of the AETC program is to improve healthcare and health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS. This is accomplished through providing education, training, clinical consultation and other forms of decision support to HIV/AIDS clinical care providers currently serving this population and to clinical providers in minority and other highly impacted and high risk communities, where enhanced access to HIV treatment resources is needed. Through education, training, information support, clinical consultation and technical assistance, the AETC program develops and sustains HIV clinical care...

Eligible applicants include public and nonprofit private entities and schools and academic health sciences centers. Faith-based and community-based organizations are eligible to apply for these funds. Tribes and Tribal Organizations are eligible to apply for these funds. It is required that, at a minimum, the awarded AETC grantees and Local Performance Sites possess expertise in: Clinical diagnosis and management of HIV infected patients; DHHS HIV Treatment Guidelines; Adult education and training; and Delivery of culturally appropriate risk assessment, counseling and testing, and treatment services. The AETC(s) is expected, at a minimum, to possess expertise in: HIV oral health care diagnosis and management; Special expertise in pediatric, adolescent and perinatal HIV; HIV pharmacology; Hepatitis B, C, and TB; and Substance abuse treatment and mental health. Ideally the applicant’s personnel and faculty should also reflect the diversity of clinical disciplines, gender and racial/ethnicities present in their trainee and consumer populations.

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