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26 July, 2022

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Five Ways to Improve HIV Index Testing in Highly Saturated Environments (https://www.jsi.com/hiv-resources/?utm_source=JSI+Newsletter&utm_campaig...)

HIV index testing in highly saturated environments can be extremely challenging, even more so where intimate partner violence levels are high. JSI staff working on the USAID Meeting Targets and Maintaining HIV Epidemic Control (EpiC) Project in Johannesburg, South Africa, share lessons learned.

Keeping PrEP and Other HIV Prevention Methods at the Forefront during COVID (https://www.jsi.com/silver-linings-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-with-dr-muti...)

The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to health services and providers in Africa. JSI staff discuss how, despite tremendous challenges, they have helped keep people at risk of and living with HIV on prevention methods (including pre-exposure prophylaxis) and treatment.

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Best Practices Compilation Supports Replication of Approaches to Improving Care (https://targethiv.org/bestpractices?utm_source=JSI+Newsletter&utm_campai...)

In collaboration with HRSA HAB and TargetHIV, JSI recently launched the Best Practices Compilation to support knowledge-sharing across the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

Building Relationships with State Medicaid Agencies to Support Peer Services (https://ssc.jsi.com/resources/state-strategies-action-building-relations...)

JSI is working with federal and state partners to strengthen systems of care for people with HIV and opioid use disorder. This document describes the critical role of the peer workforce in developing and delivering care and how state Medicaid programs can serve as an essential fiscal resource in supporting peer services.

What our Experts are Listening to, Watching, and Reading

* JSI experts presented (https://www.jsi.com/jsi-experts-at-the-52nd-union-world-conference-on-lu...) at the virtual 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health (https://conf2021.theunion.org/?utm_source=JSI+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a6...)

* An inconvenient truth: The real reason why Africa is not getting vaccinated (https://bhekisisa.org/opinion/2021-10-12-an-inconvenient-truth-the-real-...)

* The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2021 (https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports/globa...) , available as an interactive app (https://www.who.int/news/item/21-10-2021-global-tb-report-app---updated-...)

* CDC MMWR (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7042a1.htm?utm_source=JSI+Newsl...) reporting on HIV infection and HIV-associated behaviors among persons who inject drugs in the United States

* HHS Secretary Becerra announces a new overdose prevention strategy (https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/10/27/hhs-secretary-becerra-announce...) that priorities harm reduction among other key target areas

* Covid-19 has killed more people in the US than HIV did in 40 years (https://www.thenationalnews.com/coronavirus/2021/10/21/covid-19-has-kill...)

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