Welcome to the home page for the Mississippi Delta Region AIDS Education and Training Center.  The Delta Region AETC is a network of healthcare provider education centers established in 1988.  Federally and state funded to provide HIV/AIDS continuing education and information to physicians and to improve accessibility and quality of HIV/AIDS preventive and treatment services, the Delta Region AETC is headquartered at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans with regional sites here at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas.

HIV/AIDS Statewide Data Network (includes new RW data entry forms)

Resource Center Administration  
Email: draetc@medicine.umsmed.edu

	Staff Members (<click for directory)
	Map to DRAETC-MS office
	MS DRAETC Consultation Program (Adobe Acrobat)  4 Consultation Request Form*
	4 Consultation Program, additional info (pages 2-4)*
	*You will need Adobe Acrobat to open these files. If you do not have Acrobat and would like to download it now, click here to go to Adobe's site to download & install it.)

Resource Center Trainings

	Training Program Schedule (currently being updated, 07/08; please phone Nona Mills at  601-984-5542 for other dates)
	Participant Information Form (PIF) and Training Needs Survey (form & instructions) 4  This is an annual HRSA requirement of participants attending all ETC programs or trainings  (only one per trainee each grant year is needed.  We can duplicate for subsequent trainings after the first per year). 4  This is a NEW form, for use starting 7/1/07 4  Please be sure not to omit answering question 1 on the PIF, as occasionally occurs. 4  Please print your name clearly on both pages & fax to 601-984-5777 after completing forms.
	Care and Management Overview of HIV Infection (course description) 4  Registration form 4  Agenda 4  Training location info* - Jackson Medical Mall Conference Center (map prints better than displays) 4  Please note the faxing/mailing information on the bottom of the registration form. 4  Confirmation of your registration will be e-mailed or faxed to you, therefore, please be sure to print this information clearly on your registration form. Thank you!
	Advanced HIV Clinical Training (course description) 4  A special invitation from DRAETC-MS Clinical Training Coordinator 4  Registration form* 4  Other pre-attendance requirements:  Pre-test survey*, ISS agreement* 4  Training location info* - Clinics at Jackson Medical Mall  (map prints better than displays)
	ARCHIVE of past training program documents/handouts 4  “Steering the Ship of Pregnancy and HIV” 4 "Quality Management in Provision of HIV/AIDS Care: A Current Overview HIV”
	*You will need Adobe Acrobat 4.0 or a later version, to open these files. If you do not have Acrobat and would like to download it now, click here to go to Adobe's site to download & install it.)

Local Community Resources

	Mississippi Directory of HIV/AIDS Service Agencies
	Mississippi Community Planning Group for HIV Prevention - 2007-2009 - Comprehensive HIV Prevention Plan
	Mississippi Health Sciences Information Network (MisHIN)
	Mississippi Urban Research Center 4 The African American Prevention Interventional Network 4 High Impact Program
	UMC Continuing Education Programs
	JSU sponsored programs & activities: 4Global-World HIV/AIDS Alliance (GHAA; JSU is a partner) 4National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 4Southern Prevention Intervention Center of the African American Prevention Intervention Network 4Youths, Adolescents and Young Adults Center of the African American Prevention Intervention Network (YAYA/APIN)
	State Department of Health 4 ADAP Drug Program, current available drug list 4Home based Program to provide home IV services to eligible persons - provider guidelines 4HIV/STD Prevention and Education Department's 2008 Training Schedule & Application

	State Agencies of Mississippi (compiled by the University of Mississippi)
	Mississippi Health Professions Placement Service

Regional HIV/AIDS Resources

	from the Delta Region AIDS ETC, Regional Office, New Orleans, LA
	HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines Case Consultation Data/Statistic
	University of Alabama Birmingham Clinical Trials

Continuing Educational Courses

HIV eJournal Club

	HIV Resistance and the Importance of Adherance, animated  tutorial from John Hopkins
	HIVWebStudy  This site provides interactive, case-based modules related to the clinical care of HIV-infected persons.  Provided by the Northwest Aids Education & Training Center (AETC)
	Online Interactive Multimedia CME Program: Antiretroviral Drug Resistance and Sequencing: Mechanisms, Measurements and Management, from Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
	The National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers STD Case Series designed to provide continuing education for practitioners in primary health care, family medicine, emergency medicine and other specialties who provide care to persons with or at risk for sexually transmitted diseases. Continuing education credits offered without a charge (CME, CNE, CEU).
	Mountain-Plains Regional Training Center, On-site Clinical Training & Self Study Modules (click "Resources")
	Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
	HIV and Hepatitis

Patient Support

	Online resources:  newsgroups, discussion lists, email-distributed news.
	Local Newsletters & Support Groups: Adult Specialty Care Clinic, UMMC, newsletter:  current issue,  (March, 2008, MSWord format)   Support Groups, Jackson:      h Lean on Me (UMMC, Adult Specialty Care Clinic)  (Adobe Acrobat 4.0 file)     hMy Brother's Keeper (HIV+MSM)    Support Groups, Hattiesburg:           Pine Belt Support Groups Listing
	Positive Living (Patient Information Handbook) (Adobe Acrobat 4.0 file)

Other HIV-AIDS Information Centers

	AETC National Resources Center  8 AETC 2007 Annual Report (new, 07/08)
	HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau
	Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online        (Statistics by state)

The University of Mississippi Medical Center offers equal opportunity in employment, education and all programs and services, M/F/D/V.

     last revised 08/20/08