Category: 19: Key Health Partners

19: Key Health Partners

Positive Peers Receives $5.7 Million NIH Grant

Positive Peers has been granted $5.7 million over five years by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a part of the National Institutes of Health. The funding aims to assess the efficacy […]
19: Key Health Partners

Cabenuva: Advocating for Patients with an HIV Specialty Pharmacy Program

by Dr. Ann Avery

By: Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center 1996 marked the year when “people stopped dying” from HIV due to newly available antiretroviral drugs. Since then, treatment is often as simple as one […]
08: Peer Support, 17: Young and Positive, 19: Key Health Partners

Building an effective HIV youth support group

by Jennifer McMillen Smith

By: Jennifer McMillen Smith, MSSA, LISW-S, Division of Infectious Disease and medically reviewed by Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center You might think that living with HIV affects everyone the same, regardless […]
19: Key Health Partners, 20: Born with HIV

Advocating for Youth and Young Adults Born With HIV

by Jennifer McMillen Smith

By: Jennifer McMillen Smith, MSSA, LISW-S, Division of Infectious Disease and medically reviewed by Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center Breakthroughs in modern medicine have led to advancements in HIV care delivery, […]
19: Key Health Partners

Timing of support is critical to patients’ HIV care plan

by Jennifer McMillen Smith

  By: Jennifer McMillen Smith, MSSA, LISW-S, Division of Infectious Disease and medically reviewed by Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center Breaking the news of a life-changing diagnosis is one of the […]
19: Key Health Partners

The Importance of a Peer Support Network in HIV Care

by Jennifer McMillen Smith

By: Jennifer McMillen Smith, MSSA, LISW-S, Division of Infectious Disease and medically reviewed by Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center The Importance of a Peer Support Network in HIV Care Navigating HIV […]
19: Key Health Partners

Positive Peers is achieving goals within the EHE Pillars

by Jennifer McMillen Smith

By: Jennifer McMillen Smith, MSSA, LISW-S, Division of Infectious Disease and medically reviewed by Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center Positive Peers is on the frontlines in support and advocacy for people […]
19: Key Health Partners

Positive Peers tackles social isolation among people living with HIV

by Jennifer McMillen Smith

By: Jennifer McMillen Smith, MSSA, LISW-S, Division of Infectious Disease and medically reviewed by Ann Avery, Infectious Disease Physician at Metrohealth Medical Center When a person finds out they have HIV, it is a life-changing […]