A Message From Your Friends At The Southeast AETC: Our hearts go out to those in our community who were affected by the hurricanes. If you have patients that are having trouble accessing HIV services during this time, we urge you to utilize HRSA’s Find a Ryan White Provider tool to help navigate them to services nearby.

Presentations

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HIV 101: Pathogenesis and Treatment

Steve Raffanti, MD

Objectives:

  • Describe current issues in the epidemiology of the HIV epidemic
  • Describe the life cycle of HIV
  • Describe the way that HIV interacts with its host, producing disease
  • Describe the principles of treatment
  • Describe acute HIV infection
  • Describe the initial evaluation of an HIV infected patient

Sexual History and PrEP/PEP

Sean Kelly, MD

Objectives:

  • Background of PrEP
  • Importance of PrEP in the Southeast
  • Provider and patient barriers to PrEP 
  • PrEP eligibility
  • Taking a sexual history
  • PrEP prescribing
    • Counseling
    • Adverse effects
    • Lab monitoring
  • Future directions of PrEP

ART Selection and Resistance and Case Studies

Elizabeth Sherman, PharmD, AAHIVP

Objectives:

  • Describe the process for selecting antiretroviral regimens
  • Identify common mechanisms for drug interactions with antiretrovirals
  • List the available methods and indications for antiretroviral resistance testing

Common OIs and Co-morbidities

Steve Raffanti, MD

Objectives:

  • Coming soon.

Mental Health

Mollie Gurley, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Objectives:

  • How To Screen For Psychiatric Disorders in HIV-infected Patients
    • Diagnostic Criteria
    • Treatment (Medication Management, Therapy)
  • Important and Unique Implications of Mental Health Treatment in HIV-infected Patients