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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · S. 3660 (Introduced in Senate) — To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes. · Sec. 749

Sec. 749. Health care professionals treating individuals with HIV/AIDS

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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall expand, intensify, and coordinate workforce initiatives of the Health Resources and Services Administration to increase the capacity of the health workforce focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS to meet the demand for culturally competent care, and may award grants for any of the following: Development of curricula for training primary care providers in HIV/AIDS prevention and care, including routine HIV testing.
Support to expand access to culturally and linguistically accessible benefits counselors, trained peer navigators, and mental and behavioral health professionals with expertise in HIV/AIDS. Training health care professionals to provide care to individuals with HIV/AIDS. Development by grant recipients under title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300ff–11 et seq.; commonly referred to as the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program ) and other persons, of policies for providing culturally relevant and sensitive treatment to individuals with HIV/AIDS, with particular emphasis on treatment to racial and ethnic minorities, men who have sex with men, and women, young people, and children with HIV/AIDS.
Development and implementation of programs to increase the use of telehealth to respond to HIV/AIDS-specific health care needs in rural and minority communities, with particular emphasis given to medically underserved communities and insular areas. Evaluating interdisciplinary medical provider care team models that promote high-quality care, with particular emphasis on care to racial and ethnic minorities. Training health care professionals to make them aware of the high rates of chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C in adult racial and ethnic populations, and the importance of prevention, detection, and medical management of hepatitis B and hepatitis C and of liver cancer screening.
Development of curricula for training primary care providers that HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis are significant mutual comorbidities, and that a patient who tests positive for one disease should be offered and encouraged to receive testing for the other. To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
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