Information for Mental Health Care Providers
This section provides a variety of information for the mental health practitioner in areas such as: adherence to treatment regimens, recent research findings to facilitate services to people with HIV/AIDS, and articles for mental health professionals about HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDS Training for Mental Health Providers
Adherence to Treatment Regimens
A four-credit course on HIV treatment and adherence that was designed by APA's Office on AIDS and funded by the federal Center for Mental Health Services. The course features focused readings with links to more in-depth articles, multimedia clips, a discussion board and an online test, which users must pass to earn their credits.
APA HIV/AIDS Policy Statements
HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study
A study using a national sample representative of the adult U.S. population infected with HIV and receiving ongoing care that found significant variation in service utilization and receipt of medication. Women were more likely than men to use the emergency department and be hospitalized, and less likely to have received antiretroviral therapy including a protease inhibitor or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor by early 1998.
Selected APA Monitor Articles on HIV/AIDS
Key Web Sites
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