Webinar: HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Patients with Substance Use Disorders

Webinar Date: May 27, 2020

Please join the National Clinician Consultation Center in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care for this interactive webinar for Health Center clinicians.

PrEP is a highly effective biomedical intervention that prevents HIV. Despite the established association between HIV risk and substance use, PrEP access as well as uptake and persistence among persons with substance use disorders remains low. To fully realize HIV prevention efforts across health systems, and as substance use/healthcare-seeking patterns evolve with COVID-19, person-centered PrEP service delivery needs to involve renewed and coordinated efforts involving substance use treatment providers. This webinar will help clinicians overcome PrEP implementation challenges, assess PrEP eligibility, and identify strategies for addressing side effect and adherence concerns.

Participants will:

  1. Examine national trends of PrEP use among different populations at risk for HIV, including persons with substance use disorders
  2. Review recent updates on new PrEP medications and dosing strategies, and discuss unique considerations that may arise when counseling persons with substance use disorders
  3. Consider strategies for health centers to increase PrEP education, initiation, and persistence

Speaker Information:
Parya Saberi, PharmD, MAS, AAHIVP is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and HIV Clinical Pharmacist. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and California HIV/AIDS Research Program, her current areas of research include remotely-conducted research, adapting technology-based strategies to challenge current models of healthcare, and improving HIV prevention and treatment strategies through social networking technologies and web-based tools. She is Principal Investigator of an NIH-funded project to improve HIV PrEP prescribing practices through technology-guided panel management strategies in primary care clinics across the San Francisco Department of Health.

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This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under grant number U1OHA30039-04-04 (AIDS Education and Training Centers National Clinician Consultation Center) in partnership with the HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care awarded to the University of California, San Francisco.