The Northwest
AETC's Alaska State Office is the Alaska Native Tribal Health
Consortium (ANTHC) in Anchorage. ANTHC manages a statewide
Ryan White CARE Act Title III program serving Alaska Natives
and all Alaskans outside of Anchorage. The Title III Early
Intervention Services clinical team works on the campus of
the Alaska Native Medical Center; program hub sites are in
Anchorage, Sitka/Juneau, Bethel, and Fairbanks. Other ANTHC
HIV/AIDS services include a HRSA SPNS project collaborating
with Norton Sound Health Corporation (Nome) and the Alaska
Department of Corrections, and an NIH National Library of
Medicine information project. ANTHC delivers HIV training
for health care providers around the state, as a subcontractor
for the Northwest AETC. An additional training focus funded
by HRSA is for HIV rapid test usage in rural and Alaska Native
health care settings.
ANTHC collaborations are with the Alaska AIDS
Assistance Association and Interior AIDS Association for social
services and drug assistance, the State of Alaska Section
of Epidemiology, the Alaska Native Health Board for prevention
and education, and the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center
which provides urban Anchorage Title III services. ANTHC is
considered the primary Alaska Native organization for HIV
clinical services and provider training.
From October 1999 to September 2002, the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded the Alaska
Targeted Provider Education Demonstration Project (TPED).
This project partnered with Alaska organizations to provide
culturally-effective HIV/AIDS training, consultation, and
support to healthcare providers in Alaska serving HIV-infected
Native Alaskans and/or those at risk for HIV.
If you would
like more information on the specific details or the outcomes
of this project, please contact Joe
Cantil.
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