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The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program is funded under Part F of the Ryan White CARE Act. Part F also funds the Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Program and the HIV/AIDS Dental Reimbursement Program.
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The AIDS Education and Training Centers Program is a network of 13 regional centers (and 135 associated sites ) that conduct targeted, multi-disciplinary education and training programs for health care providers. The AETCs, which serve all 50 States, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, increase the number of health care providers who are educated and motivated to counsel, diagnose, treat, and manage care for individuals with HIV/AIDS and help prevent high risk behaviors that may lead to infection.
AETCs focus on training those in primary health care (physicians, nurses, dentists) and, with a lesser emphasis, on training for mental health and allied health providers. The majority of AETC resources have been focused on areas of high HIV prevalence and incidence, with remaining resources allocated on suburban and rural needs. AETC activities are based upon assessed local needs. Each AETC involves at least one CARE Act Title I metropolitan area with high incidence of the disease.
AETCs collaborate with other CARE Act-funded organizations, Area Health Education Centers (AHECs), community-based HIV/AIDS organizations, medical and health professional schools, local hospitals, health departments, community and migrant health centers, medical societies, and other professional organizations.
Since 1991, more than 700,000 providers have been trained by the AETC program. A 1993 study showed that providers trained in AETCs were more competent with regard to HIV issues and more willing to treat persons living with HIV than other primary care providers.
The FY 2001 appropriation for the AETC program was $31.6 million.
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In October 1999, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded nine Targeted Provider Education Demonstration (TPED) grants to support HIV/AIDS education and training for health and support services providers working in racial and ethnic minority communities highly impacted by HIV/AIDS. A total of $3.3 million was awarded.
The specialized training developed through the TPED Program will prepare providers to address the growing health care needs of people of color living with HIV/AIDS. Providers targeted for the TPEDs include case managers, peer counselors, mental health professionals, social workers, substance abuse treatment providers, outreach workers, day care workers, treatment educators, dieticians, prison health providers, discharge planners, program administrators, home health care
workers, and other providers involved in health and support services.
The TPEDs utilize comprehensive and progressive curricula that employ a variety of educational techniques in efforts to address the great diversity among providers targeted by the program (e.g., professional and educational background, HIV/AIDS knowledge, roles and responsibilities, and patient populations served).
Each TPED serves at least one Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act Title I Eligible Metropolitan Area and actively involves at least one, and up to nine, community-based organizations or AIDS service organizations serving highly impacted minority communities in the provision of training. TPED training agendas and topics are based upon ongoing, local provider needs assessments.
The TPED Program will coordinate and work cooperatively with the 14 regional AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC), the National AETC Resource Center, and the National Minority AETC, funded through the Ryan White CARE Act and administered by HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.
Program funding was provided through the Congressional Black Caucus/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities.
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