HIV Testing: Skills Practice Session

6.5 OASAS credits (not approved for initial CPS credentialing); ‡ 6.5 CNE hours

This one-day training will provide participants with an opportunity to practice key skills related to offering HIV testing services.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

• Recall how to provide streamlined pre-test information;
• Describe how to deliver preliminary positive and confirmed positive HIV test results;
• Describe how to link newly diagnosed HIV positive patients to health care and support services;
• Provide information to HIV positive patients to promote notification of sexual and needle sharing partners; and
• Conduct the NYS domestic violence screening protocol.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of basic HIV/AIDS information and attendance at the AIDS Institute training, “HIV Testing in NYS: 2010 Update” within the past 12 months
Audience: All health or human services providers who offer HIV testing as part of their job responsibilities.