This week, Marianna chats with John Faragon about some new data from the CDC about PrEP use between 2020 and 2022. Learn about the rates of new HIV infection, which groups are most affected, how the CDC is tackling some of these challenges to end the HIV epidemic, and more. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check...
Oct 26, 2023•14 min•Ep. 117
This week, we're sitting down with John Faragon to talk about the latest on U=U or undetectable = untransmittable, and some recent data on people with HIV with low level viremia. Learn all about it and why this matters for you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online co...
Oct 19, 2023•13 min•Ep. 116
This week, we're chatting with John Faragon about the latest updates to our HIV mobile apps. From drug interactions to new guidelines, the apps cover it all. Learn all about the most recent changes and how they can help you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online cours...
Oct 12, 2023•13 min•Ep. 115
This week, Marianna sits down with two clinicians from the National Clinician Consultation Center (NCCC) - Astha Kanani, MD and Cristina Gruta, PharmD to talk about Hepatitis C treatment and adherence when it comes to people with HIV. -- Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.hepatitisc.uw.edu/ https://www.hcvguidelines.org/ https://www.hep-druginteractions.org/checker https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7132e1.htm Fabbiani M, Lombardi A, Colaneri M, et al. High rates of sustained...
Oct 05, 2023•21 min•Ep. 114
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk about Hepatitis B (HBV) reactivation when switching HIV medications. Find out why this may happen, what the risks are, and what this means for you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/...
Sep 28, 2023•15 min•Ep. 113
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk all things COVID-19 - what the most prominent variants are, how to protect ourselves, updated guidance, and what this all means for you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-course...
Sep 14, 2023•20 min•Ep. 111
This week, Marianna sits down with Francine Cournos, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and Stephen Abel, Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, to talk about the connection between oral health and mental health, especially when it comes to people with HIV. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new...
Sep 07, 2023•24 min•Ep. 110
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to discuss intensifying anti-retroviral therapy for people with HIV who have neurocognitive disorders. Learn about the efficacy of this treatment strategy and what it could mean for you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free on...
Jul 27, 2023•13 min•Ep. 109
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk about a new treatment option for highly treatment experienced people with HIV. Tune in to learn more about a drug combination that HIV care providers have been looking at for this group of PWH. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online cour...
Jul 20, 2023•14 min•Ep. 108
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk about data that the CDC recently released about HIV demographics for 2021. Find out why this matters for you as an HIV care provider and what it means for the HIV community. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.or...
Jul 13, 2023•16 min•Ep. 107
This week, Marianna is sitting down with John Faragon to talk about the recently published five year data on treatment naïve subjects initiating therapy with bictegravir/tenofovir alafenamide/emtricitabine (that's a mouthful!) or BFTAF. Learn all about BFTAF and why it matters for you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments...
Jul 06, 2023•18 min•Ep. 106
This week, Marianna sits down with Dr. Jonathan Shuter to talk about a new (free!) online course he developed in conjunction with the NECA AETC. Learn all about the course and sign up below. Sign-up for "Smoking Cessation in PWH": www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses Smoking cessation resources: National Smoking Quit Line: 1-800-QUIT-NOW www.smokefree.gov www.becomeanex.org -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- W...
Jun 29, 2023•18 min•Ep. 105
This week, Marianna sits down with Dr. Lealah Pollock from the NCCC to talk about recent changes regarding chestfeeding for people with HIV. Find out what the changes were, why they matter to the HIV community, and why you as an HIV care provider need to know about them. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check ou...
Jun 22, 2023•14 min•Ep. 104
This week, Marianna sits down with John to talk about some recent data on cases of MPox being on the rise again. Find out why this matters and how this affects you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses -- Download our HIV mobile...
Jun 15, 2023•19 min•Ep. 103
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk about about the role of pharmacists when it comes to pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, and post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP. Learn about how they can help PWH pay for PrEP & PEP, abandoned prescriptions, and more. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Chec...
Jun 08, 2023•18 min•Ep. 102
This week, we're sitting down with John Faragon to discuss the BRIGHTE study, what it can tell us about fostemsavir, and why it's so important that this study was conducted for five years. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses -- Download our HIV mobile...
Jun 01, 2023•14 min•Ep. 101
This week, we're revisiting an episode with Greg Langan, Program Director at Jefferson Health New Jersey and our Regional Partner Director at the South Jersey AIDS Education & Training Center, where he talks about a behavioral assessment called DISC and how it can change your work as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments...
May 25, 2023•15 min
In our 100th episode, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk about the new plan to end Hepatitis C, or HCV, in the United States. Find out what it is and how you as an HIV care provider can get involved. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses -- Do...
May 18, 2023•21 min•Ep. 100
This week, Marianna is sitting down with John Faragon to talk about the Reprieve Study, conducted back in 2015. Find what it was, who was involved, and why it's relevant for the HIV community years later. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses -- Downloa...
May 11, 2023•13 min•Ep. 99
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to discuss the latest updates to the DHHS guidelines, specifically as they relate to the medication lenacapavir. Find out what changes and how this can affect you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaa...
May 04, 2023•15 min•Ep. 98
This week, Marianna sits down with NECA AETC's very own EHE Project Coordinator, Catherine Farquharson, and our Evaluation Specialist, Danni Dorancy, to talk about how addressing mental health can help end the HIV epidemic. Keep an eye out for their upcoming article on this topic in New Jersey HIV Links: https://fxbcenter.org/education/ -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcas...
Apr 27, 2023•9 min•Ep. 97
This week, we're revisiting an episode with Dr. James Satriano during which he talks about de-escalation strategies and creating safe spaces for service delivery. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses -- Download our HIV mobile apps: Google Play Store: ...
Apr 20, 2023•24 min
This week, we're sitting down with John Faragon to talk about ARV treatment in long term care facilities and persons aging with HIV. Learn about access to HIV medications in these settings and how this can affect you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www...
Apr 13, 2023•15 min•Ep. 96
This week, we're sitting down with John Faragon the final installment of our 3-part series covering the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - or CROI – which took place in February 2023. Learn about some of the key studies discussed, investigational medications for HIV, and more. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas ...
Apr 06, 2023•20 min•Ep. 95
This week, we're sitting down with John Faragon for part two of our series covering the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - or CROI – which took place in February 2023. Learn about the latest in regards to HIV prevention data, treatment, and more. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out ...
Mar 30, 2023•23 min•Ep. 94
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk all things CROI 2023. CROI is the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, which took place in February 2023. Find out what happened, what you may have missed, and why it matters for your as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes...
Mar 23, 2023•28 min•Ep. 93
In this special edition episode, Marianna sits down with Dr. Marshall Glesby to talk about the effect of the MPox virus on people with advanced HIV. Find out what the latest research has shown and why this matters for you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses...
Mar 09, 2023•15 min
This week, we're sitting down with Greg Langan, Program Director at Jefferson Health New Jersey and our Regional Partner Director at the South Jersey AIDS Education & Training Center, to talk about community health workers - who they are, what they do, and why their program matters so much for the HIV community. Learn more about the Community Health Worker program by watching our video about the CHWs (https://vimeo.com/456604775). -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by ...
Mar 02, 2023•16 min•Ep. 91
This week, Marianna sits down with John Faragon to talk about the latest COVID-19 variant - XBB1.5. Learn about what it is, how it compares to past variants, and how this affects you as an HIV care provider.** Learn more about the COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator: https://covid-19-therapeutics-locator-dhhs.hub.arcgis.com/ -- ** A note on tech: We had some technical difficulties during this episode and try as we might, we couldn't fix them in post, so you may hear some static at times when listening...
Feb 23, 2023•17 min•Ep. 90
This week, Marianna sits down with John to discuss an update to lenacapavir - a medication we've discussed a lot on this podcast. Learn about what changed and why this will matter to you as an HIV care provider. -- Help us track the number of listeners our episode gets by filling out this brief form! (https://www.e2NECA.org/?r=PCS6722) -- Want to chat? Email us at podcast@necaaetc.org with comments or ideas for new episodes. -- Check out our free online courses: www.necaaetc.org/rise-courses -- ...
Feb 16, 2023•19 min•Ep. 89
