Peers in Power-Transforming HIV Prevention and Care
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC)
This episode explores how lived experience is reshaping HIV prevention, care, and community trust. It offers insights into the value peers bring to HIV services, from bridging cultural gaps to increasing engagement and retention in care. Guests provide firsthand accounts of how peer roles have evolved into long-term career paths and how strong training, guidance, and investment in people with lived experience can build a more inclusive and effective public health workforce. This podcast is part of the EBTI "Strengthening the Capacity of the HIV Prevention Workforce Series," which includes the...
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Living Bold: Youth and Beginning an HIV Prevention Journey
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC)
The “Living Bold: Youth and Beginning an HIV Prevention Journey” podcast explores professional and personal experiences of initiating youth engagement in HIV prevention, including PrEP use, HIV testing, and condom use. Join us for an open and honest conversation working to close the gap between the HIV prevention workforce and today’s youth, to lead the next generation in beginning to live boldly against HIV. Learning ObjectivesUpon completion of this activity, participants will be better able to: Describe two strategies for helping youth initiate PrEP use. Identify strategies for...
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Dismantling Racism: Explicit Biases within HIV Care
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC)
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC) Podcast Episode 4: Dismantling Racism: Explicit Biases within HIV Care Join us for the last episode of Season One of HIV-DC. In this deeper conversation about HIV, we talk about bias and racism in the medical setting. Joining us this episode is Dr. Brandon Wilson, a social science research analyst and project officer for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, as well as a health equity advisor on rotation to CMS Office of Minority Health. In this engaging conversation, Dr. Wilson talks about how explicit bias influences medical...
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Birth and Postpartum with HIV
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC)
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC) Podcast Episode 3: Birth and Postpartum with HIV In the second of this two part conversion, we discuss how HIV relates to birth and parenting. Join us as we talk with Doctors Phil Bolduc and Thanh Thu Ngo from the Family Health Center of Worcester, in Worchester, Massachusetts, where they both practice family medicine and treat women living with HIV. They share with us how they approach birth and postpartum concerns with their patients and offer some best practices to help women stay healthy as they give birth and care for their...
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HIV, Pre-Conception, and Pregnancy
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC)
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC) Podcast Episode 2: HIV, Pre-Conception, and Pregnancy Join us for part one of a two-part conversation on reducing HIV stigma and centering the health and wellness of parents and babies. In this Deeper Conversation, we delve into HIV, pregnancy, and parenting with Doctors Phil Bolduc and Thanh Thu Ngo from the Family Health Center of Worcester in Worcester, Massachusetts, where they both practice family medicine and treat women living with HIV. Drs. Bolduc and Ngo share how they approach HIV and pregnancy with their patients and offer...
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HIV Testing and Black Women
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC)
Health Innovation Voices: Deeper Conversations (HIV-DC) Podcast Episode 1: In this deeper conversation, we discuss the barriers and stigma faced by Black women around HIV. Dr. Tamara Henry, Associate Professor and Practicum director at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, joined us to examine the factors that contribute to adolescent and adult Black women being overrepresented among people living with HIV in the United States, and what can be done to change that. Continuing Education Credits are available for this podcast. For more information visit: ....
info_outlineThis episode explores how lived experience is reshaping HIV prevention, care, and community trust. It offers insights into the value peers bring to HIV services, from bridging cultural gaps to increasing engagement and retention in care. Guests provide firsthand accounts of how peer roles have evolved into long-term career paths and how strong training, guidance, and investment in people with lived experience can build a more inclusive and effective public health workforce.
This podcast is part of the EBTI "Strengthening the Capacity of the HIV Prevention Workforce Series," which includes the "Recruiting and Retaining Peers to Support Prevention and Care" manual and the "Stability in Uncertain Times: Strengthening HIV Prevention Through Peer Workforce Investment" webinar.
Faculty
Valerie Wojciechowicz has been in the HIV field for 27 years and created and managed Medical Peer Programs, Speaking Programs and Trainings. Her desire to help improve the lives of People Living with HIV is evident. She strives to erase stigma and discrimination and help others see the value of eliminating Stigmatizing Language in HIV.
Moderators
Amalia Amy Zamot, MS, CHRC is the Senior Capacity Building Assistance Manager at HealthHIV. She has been active in the field of HIV for more than 25 years. Her career began in Ryan White case management before moving into a regional position serving all of southwest Florida as the Regional Minority HIV/AIDS Coordinator. In 2013, she transitioned into the private sector and served as the Director of Prevention and Community Services for a local community-based organization that focused on ensuring equitable access to services for vulnerable populations throughout Southwest Florida.
Steve Wood is the Senior Education and Advocacy Coordinator at HealthHIV. Steve has worked in the HIV/AIDS field since 1986, in several different disciplines including clinical research, biomedical research, a trainer and curriculum writer for New York State, as well as several years providing direct-service to the community. Steve has extensive experience serving the community as a community-facing worker, as an administrator, and as a trainer.