The Status-Neutral HIV Testing Continuum

The Status-Neutral HIV Testing Continuum 

As the second session in the Best Practices in HIV Prevention & Care series, this session delves into the status-neutral approach to HIV testing. In addition to discussing the types of HIV tests available, strategies for managing a negative or positive HIV testing result will also be covered. These include PrEP, PEP, risk reduction strategies and treatment as prevention.

This webinar is brought to you by the ACHA Sexual Health Coalition. 

Session Information 

Format: Self-paced, recorded webinar
Original Recording Date: July 19, 2022  

Release Date: July 19, 2022 
Expiration Date: July 19, 2024 
After the expiration date, this webinar will no longer be accessible for viewing or downloading.
CE Credit must be requested by the expiration date.

Cost: 
FREE

Speaker(s)

Blake Flaugher, MPH, CHES
University of California, Davis 

Ariel Watriss, MSN, NP-C
Tufts University

Intended Audience

• Administrator  
• Advanced Practice Clinicians
• Health Educator
• Health Information Management Professional
• Mental Health Professional
• Nurse
• Pharmacist
• Physician
• Student

Learning Objectives

After this session, participants should be able to: 

1. Identify HIV prevention and care initiatives according to the status-neutral HIV testing continuum.
2. Discuss current types of biomedical HIV prevention strategies.
3. Discuss the types of HIV testing available, including when to use them.
4. Discuss the needs of students who are newly diagnosed with HIV.

Program Planning Committee

Relevant Financial Relationship  — None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Ariel Watriss, RN
Tufts University 

Blake Flaugher, MPH, CHES
University of California, Davis 

Margaret Higham, MD
Tufts University

Joy Himmel, Psy.D, LCPC, NCC, RN, FACHA
Bodhi Counseling

For more information about this session or its speaker(s), contact education@acha.org.

Credit and Disclosures

Types of Credit Available

Refer to the Continuing Education Key.

• CME: 1.0
• CHES: 1.0/1.0*
• MCHES: 1.0/1.0*

*Continuing Competency credits, when available, are listed after the total CHES/MCHES contact hours (e.g. CHES: 1.0/1.0) 
 

Instructions for Obtaining Credit (or certificate of attendance)

Select the "Contents" tab above (registered users only) for access to the following components. It is estimated that it will require one hour to view the webinar and complete the post-test. Credit must be requested by the program expiration date (see "Overview" tab above).

Step 1:  View the webinar video in its entirety.

Step 2:  Complete the mandatory Post-test for CE Credit/contact hours and receive 80% or higher.

Step 3:  Select the certificate for the type of credit/contact hour you are requesting. Select "Certificate of Attendance" if no credit/contact hour is being requested. 

Statements and Disclosures

Continuing Education 

The American College Health Association (ACHA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACHA designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Sponsored by ACHA, a designated provider of continuing education content hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designed for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category 1 continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level contact hours available are 1.0. There are 1.0 Continuing Competency credits available.

Successful Completion/Post Test

It is the policy of the American College Health Association that when a post-test is required upon completion of a continuing education activity, participants must receive a passing grade of 80%. If participants receive a grade lower than 80%, they will be given the opportunity to re-take the post-test one time. If they receive 80% or higher the second time, they will be awarded continuing education credits/contact hours for the activity. We encourage participants to complete the post-test immediately after viewing the download.

Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest occurs when an individual has an opportunity to affect educational content about health-care products or services of a commercial company with which she/he has a financial relationship.

All planners and presenters of this activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with any commercial companies pertaining to this activity.

Off-Label Product Use
This educational activity does not include any unannounced information about off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).