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HIV-Related Training and Technical Assistance

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

93.145

Program objective

National Training and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreements: The purposes of this funding are to: (1) Assess Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipients' technical assistance needs and/or provide technical assistance related to building capacity and increasing their ability to provide high quality HIV care and treatment services; (2) Assess, develop materials, and disseminate strategies and tools related to RWHAP recipients' technical assistance needs for program development and operations; (3) Provide technical assistance for the collection, storage and retrieval of data for program reporting, evaluation, and program improvement purposes; and (4) Work with HHS agencies and national organization partners to develop strategies, tools, and trainings for RWHAP recipients. AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Program: The purposes of this funding are to: (1) Train health care personnel, including practitioners in programs under title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act and other community providers, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV disease, including the prevention of perinatal transmission of the disease, measures for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections, and (as applicable to the type of health professional involved) prenatal and other gynecological care for women with HIV; (2) Train the faculty of schools of, and graduate departments or programs of, medicine, nursing, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, public health, allied health, and mental health practice to teach health professions students to provide for the health care needs of individuals with HIV; (3) Develop and disseminate curricula and resource materials relating to the care and treatment of individuals with HIV and the prevention among individuals at risk of contracting HIV; and (4) Develop protocols for the medical care of women with HIV, including prenatal and other gynecological care for such women. The Program is comprised of several components: Regional AETCs, National Clinician Consultation Center, National AETC Support Center, National HIV Curriculum, National HIV Curriculum Integration Projects, and HIV Clinical Training Tracks in Primary Residency Care Programs.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2021

    The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation successfully launched an 18-month collaborative focused on four social determinants of health (1) Mental Health (2) Substance Use (3) Housing (4) Age. To date, • 1 in 6 RWHAP funded recipients across the U.S. actively participated in the Create + Equity Collaborative • 90% of active community partners conducted, documented and sustained their quality improvement efforts using the knowledge gained in the Collaborative and remain active six months after the formal end of the collaborative.

  2. 2022

    The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation successfully launched an 18-month collaborative focused on four social determinants of health (1) Mental Health (2) Substance Use (3) Housing (4) Age. To date:

    1 in 6 RWHAP-funded recipients across the U.S. actively participated in the Create + Equity Collaborative.

    90% of active community partners conducted, documented and sustained their quality improvement efforts using the knowledge gained in the Collaborative and remain active six months after the formal end of the collaborative.

    The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Data Integration, Systems, and Quality Technical Assistance (DISQ) Cooperative Agreement has delivered training webinars, In Focus documents, and on-demand technical assistance on Ending the HIV Epidemic. As a result, completeness rates for Ryan White Services Report (RSR) clinical data elements have improved significantly with viral load test results data completion rates increasing from 82 percent in 2011 to 95 percent in 2021. Demographic data elements completion remains high.

    The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Regional AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Programs:

    From July 2020 – June 2021 the AETC hosted 11,475 training events with 59,972 participants.

    The National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC) offers five warmlines and one hotline to provide one-on-one consultations with providers on questions related to prevention, screening and management of HIV; perinatal HIV transmission; pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP); substance use disorder; and Hepatitis C. From July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020, the NCCC received 13,697 calls on its 6 warm- and hotlines.

    The National HIV Curriculum (NHC) has been integrated into over 40 health professions programs. Over 24,000 students across the U.S. were educated on HIV through the curriculum. The NHC Platform has over 56,000 registered users in over 175 countries.

  3. 2023

    The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Data Integration, Systems, and Quality Technical Assistance (DISQ) Cooperative Agreement has delivered training webinars, In Focus documents, and on-demand technical assistance on Ending the HIV Epidemic. As a result, completeness rates for Ryan White Services Report (RSR) clinical data elements have improved significantly with viral load test results data completion rates increasing from 82 percent in 2011 to 95 percent in 2021. Demographic data elements completion remains high. DISQ continues to strategize with HRSA HAB about what areas of need remain among Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) jurisdictions for technical assistance, and collaborate with Ryan White Data Support and the EHE Technical Assistance Provider Innovation Network (TAP-in) to meet jurisdiction needs.

    The Regional AETCs held more than 42,000 training events, with almost 11,500 events in 2022-2023, an increase of 31% compared to 8,300 in 2019-2020. An average of 59,000 participants were trained each year, 128 clinics received coaching for practice transformation, and 86 health professional programs received support to increase their capacity to provide HIV education for students/pre-professionals. Through these activities, the AETCs improved the skills and capacity of the HIV workforce, supported implementation of policies and procedures and evidence-based interventions in clinics to improve HIV care, and strengthened and built the future HIV workforce. The National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC) offers five (5) warmlines and one (1) hotline to provide one-on-one consultations with providers on questions related to prevention, screening, and management of HIV; pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP); substance use disorder; Hepatitis C; and perinatal HIV transmission. From July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023, the NCCC received 8,433 calls on its 6 warm- and hotlines.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

HRSA awards are subject to the requirements of the HHS Grants Policy Statement (HHS GPS) that are applicable based on recipient type and purpose of award. The HHS GPS is available at http://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/grants

  1. 42 U.S.C. §300ff-16, §300ff 54(b), §300ff 111, §300ff-121, and 243(c).