Regional AIDS Education and Training Centers

This announcement solicits applications for the Regional AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC), a component of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Part F AETC Program. The mission of the AETC Program is to increase the number of health care professionals who are educated to counsel, diagnose, treat, and medically manage people living with HIV (PLWH), and to help prevent high-risk behaviors that lead to HIV transmission. Regional AETCs will provide education, training, consultation, and clinical decision support to health care providers, allied health professionals, and health care support staff, hereafter referred to as a group as health care professionals, who care for PLWH or at high risk of HIV. Training, education, and technical assistance will focus on developing the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of health care professionals within three competency areas: 1) Clinical Care; 2) Teamwork; and 3) Organization and Systems Management. Each Regional AETC will link experts in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV disease to health care professionals and organizations that serve racial/ethnic minorities and other populations disproportionately affected by HIV. Experts will be linked to these health care providers through tailored education, clinical consultation, and technical assistance in an effort to integrate high quality, comprehensive care for those living with or affected by HIV. The overarching goal of the Regional AETCs is to improve the health outcomes of PLWH across the HIV care continuum. This funding opportunity announcement will support eight (8) regional centers tasked with serving all 50 states in the United States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the six U.S. affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions.