Southeast AIDS Education & Training Center
The Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center (SE AETC) is one of eight regional AETCs across the country. Encompassing Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, the SE AETC offers comprehensive, collaborative educational opportunities designed to increase the size and strength of the HIV clinical workforce, improve outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum, and reduce the number of new HIV infections.
Providing HIV/AIDS Education & Training Since 1987
The Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center (SE AETC) is one of eight regional AETCs across the country. Encompassing Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, the SE AETC offers comprehensive, collaborative educational opportunities designed to increase the size and strength of the HIV clinical workforce, improve outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum, and reduce the number of new HIV infections. The SE AETC region is comprised of eight states representing 20.4% of the US population and 22.74% of People with HIV (PWH). The CDC reports that 269,977 PWH were living in the Southeast region in 2019. The region is also home to 837 hospitals, 1,210 rural health clinics, 255 federally qualified healthcare centers (FQHCs) and “look-alike” centers, 132 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) recipients, and two of three Historically Black Medical Schools in the US. The South has the highest rate of new infections in the country as well as some of the worst health metrics. According to the CDC, of the 37,968 new HIV diagnoses in the US in 2018, 51% were in the South. HIV rates per 100,000 population were generally highest in the South with two of the three highest rate states in the Southeast – Florida and Georgia. In 2018, there were 15,820 deaths among adults and adolescents with diagnosed HIV in the US and nearly half (47%) of those deaths were in the South. The SE AETC has been located at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) since September 2015. Prior to that, VUMC was the home of the Tennessee AETC. After receiving the award from HRSA in 2015, we quickly partnered with institutions across the Southeast to advance the AETC mission in the region. We also provide self-paced learning, webcasts, coaching for capacity building, and live didactic and interactive events.
- Alabama AETC – University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Florida North AETC – University of Florida Health
- Florida South AETC – University of Miami Medical School
- Georgia AETC – Morehouse School of Medicine
- Kentucky AETC – University of Kentucky
- Mississippi AETC – University of Mississippi Medical Center
- North Carolina Practice Transformation Lead Partner – Duke University School of Nursing
- North Carolina AETC – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- South Carolina AETC – University of South Carolina, Columbia
- Tennessee AETC – Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic
The SE AETC offers comprehensive, collaborative educational opportunities designed to increase the size and strength of the HIV clinical workforce, improve outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum, and reduce the number of new HIV infections. Our programs include:
- Practice Transformation
- Interprofessional Education
- Minority AIDS Initiative
- Southeast HIV Accelerated Response for Ending the Epidemic (SHARE)
- Technical Assistance.
Most of our programs provide continuing education units in multiple disciplines. To review all our Programs and Services, click here.
We offer comprehensive educational opportunities designed to increase the size and strength of the HIV clinical workforce, improve outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum and reduce the incidence of HIV infection by optimizing rates of virologic suppression.
Southeast AETC Training Data
All data represents the Southeast AETC from July 2023 – June 2024.
