Activity Description

This educational activity is designed to provide healthcare professionals with knowledge and strategies to improve patient care across the HIV prevention and care continuum.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, pharmacists, registered nurses, PAs, psychologists, social workers and other healthcare providers engaged in the care of patients with HIV.

Educational Objectives

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

  • Describe strategies to improve patient care across the HIV prevention and care continuum
Accreditation, Credit, and Support

In support of improving patient care, HealthHIV is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Support Statement

This program has no commercial support.

Planning Committee and Content/Peer Reviewers

The planners and content/peer reviewers from HealthHIV, the accredited provider, do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.

Faculty Disclosures

Brenice Duroseau, MSN, FNP-C, RNC-OB, AAHIVS
Infectious Diseases & Addiction Medicine Nurse Practitioner
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Baltimore, MD

Disclosure: Brenice Duroseau has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies:
– Advisor, Consultant, or Independent Contractor for TNF pharmaceuticals

These relationships have been mitigated in accordance with the standards of Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™ and the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

Ragan Johnson, DNP, FNP-BC, CNE, FAANP
Associate Clinical Professor
Duke University School of Nursing
Durham, North Carolina

Disclosure: Ragan Johnson has disclosed the following relevant financial relationship with an ineligible company:
– Advisor, Consultant, or Independent Contractor (Advisory Board Member) for ViiV Healthcare

This relationship has been mitigated in accordance with the standards of Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™ and the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

In addition, they have disclosed receipt of research support from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). As NINR is not an ineligible company, this relationship does not require mitigation under current accreditation standards.

Disclosure & Conflict of Interest Policy

HealthHIV is committed to providing high quality continuing education to healthcare professionals, as individuals and teams, with a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from ineligible companies that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education. To that end, HealthHIV requires faculty, presenters, planners, staff, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this CE activity to disclose all financial relationships they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible companies as defined by the ACCME, as related to the content of this CE activity, regardless of the amount or their view of the relevance to the education. All identified COI will be thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to HealthHIV policy. These disclosures will be provided to learners prior to the start of the CE activity.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussions of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this CE activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the CE activity are those of the presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this CE activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management.

Method of Participation

There are no fees for participating in or receiving credit for this CE activity. In order to receive credit, learners must participate in the entire CE activity, complete the post-test and activity evaluation form and your certificate of credit will be generated. A passing score of 80% or higher is needed to obtain credit. Your certificate will be available on eHealthHIV.org.

About This Activity

HealthHIV is responsible for the selection of this activity’s topics, the preparation of editorial content, and the distribution of this CE activity.