HIV Resource Hub - Indian Country ECHO

National Strategies

Clinical Resources

Patient Education

Training & CE

HIV Care is Primary Care

Clinical care of HIV is rapidly evolving, and recent advances in treatment make the management of HIV infection a primary care responsibility.

To assist clinicians in HIV prevention, screening, treatment, management efforts, the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and our partners developed these resources.

If you have questions or would like to obtain free technical assistance or HIV-related training for your Indian Health Service, Tribal, or urban Indian health clinic, email us at ECHO@npaihb.org.

National Strategies

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The Indigenous Syndemic Strategy: Weaving Together HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Plans

National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Clinical Resources

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Policies & Procedures

Tribal Policy Kit & Advocacy Guide

Minors' Access to STI Services

Manual for Allowing Treatment of Beneficiaries

Pharmacist-Operated PrEP Clinic Collaborative Practice Agreement

Treatment Guidelines & Tools

Evidence-Based Interventions to Prevent HIV and STDs in Indian Country

HIV Primary Care Treatment Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents

HIV/AIDS Clinical Treatment Guidelines

STI Treatment Guidelines (2021)

Toolkit for Express STI Services

Effective Interventions & Capacity Building Resources

Considerations for Performing Whole Blood HIV+Syphilis Testing

Contact Tracing

The Toolkit for Technology-Based Partner Services

Partner Services Resources

Syringe Services

Compassion, Action, Healing: Working with Injection Drug Users in Native Communities

Getting Off Right: A Safety Manual for Injection Drug Users

Guide to Developing and Managing Syringe Programs

North American Syringe Exchange Network

Stories

HOPE Rising

When Dr. Jonathan (Jon) Iralu was a medical resident at Harvard in the early 1990’s, the AIDS epidemic was at its peak, and Boston was hit hard. This experience, although …

Project Red Talon

It has been said that when an Elder walks on, knowledge as vast as a library is lost. Although this is true, when Native youth are healthy, balanced, and well-tended …

Treatment as Prevention at Gallup Indian Medical Center

At times, watershed moments in medicine are proceeded by something as tiny as a pill. For Dr. Jonathan (Jon) Iralu, who began his career at Gallup Indian Medical Center at …

ANTHC Takes the Lead

When it comes to caring for patients with infectious diseases, Leah Besh has a unique perspective. Leah, who is a Physician Assistant at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), …

Special Populations

Healthy Native Youth

Paths (re)Membered

We R Native

Patient Education

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Native. Tested. Proud.

Posters and fliers for adults and youth.

Native. LGBT. Proud.

Posters, fact sheets, and more on supporting 2SLGBTQ+ people and STI prevention.

Safer Sex Pocketbooks @ NHR

Handy pocketbooks on STI types, prevention, and management (including HIV) available to download or ship.

Native VOICES

Sexual health educational video specifically for Native youth.

Know Your Status

Brief video to remind people on the importance of knowing your HIV status.

Let's Talk HIV Prevention

A series of videos to emphasize importance of PrEP for preventing HIV.

Native Health Resources

Native Health Resources is a one-stop-shop to download/order Indigenous health education materials.

Training & CE

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Providers Have the Power to End HIV in Indian Country

HIV/AIDS Online Training Modules

UW STD Prevention Center Training

PrEP Navigator Training

National HIV Curriculum

HIV Care and Sexual Health Assessment for AI/AN Patients

National STD Curriculum

Indian Country ECHO Training Center

Find upcoming and past trainings, conferences, and gatherings.

Past ECHO Presentations

Find past ECHO presentations on HIV.

	Jason Arion Butler is an enrolled member of the Ute Tribe of Fort Duchesne, Utah and is also part Mojave and Cherokee. He resides in Gibson, Idaho with his wife of 22 years, children, and grandchild who are all enrolled members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. He graduated from Idaho State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and earned his Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. He has spent the past 5+ years employed by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Tribal Health and Human Services Department, where he spent time serving as the Recovery Service Coordinator for the Four Directions Treatment Center, the manager for the Community Health Representative program, and recently accepted the position of Behavioral Health Manager. He strives to incorporate Native culture, traditions, morals, and values into the healthcare services provided to Native communities, implementing these practices into his work with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and advocating for the reconstruction of healthcare practices nationally. Today he says, “I am loving life and am extremely thankful to have found a career path I love.

	Carrie Sampson-Samuels is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation located in Eastern Oregon. Carrie has an early background in nursing providing patient care in long term and clinical care settings. Carrie then furthered her education in community health and health studies at Portland State University, later advancing her education in healthcare management at Oregon Health and Sciences University while serving in leadership and executive management for a Tribal health organization as the Community Health Director. Carrie has served Tribes from Oregon to Montana and the Treaty 7 Blackfoot Confederacy in Southern Alberta. As the Community Health Aide Project Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Carrie has provided leadership, advocacy and project management for expansion for the Behavioral Health Aide and Community Health Aide Program under the umbrella and direction of the Tribal Community Health Provider Project. This work has led to the expansion of Tribal Community Health Providers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Carrie is responsible for leading partnerships with the education institutions, key Tribal partner sites, contract experts and advisory workgroups. This includes development of education infrastructure, education curriculum, recruitment strategies, tools for integration of providers into tribal health organizations, and working with state partners to develop policy and infrastructure for provider reimbursement. Carrie manages and writes multiple grants that support all aspects of this work and provides technical assistance support to the Portland Area CHAP Certification Board. Carrie is the proud mother of 4 daughters and resides on a small ranch on her Tribal homelands.

	Dr. Liu is a generalist OB/GYN at Gallup Indian Medical Center. In addition to her medical degree, she holds a PhD in Health Policy. Among other publications, she served as the chief editor for the 2019 Oxford University Press book: “50 Studies Every Obstetrician and Gynecologist Should Know.” She has formal training in Quality Improvement processes through the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Leadership Program (CPIP), which she utilized to implement emergency contraception at Massachusetts General Hospital. During her six years at Gallup Indian Medical Center she has primary responsibility for preparing and reporting of metrics related to the delivery of obstetric care, and serves on the Continuing Medical Education committee.

	Dr. Hoover is from Chicago, where he grew up and went to medical school, at Rush University, on Chicago’s diverse West Side. He was trained in Urology at Boston Medical Center in Boston’s beautiful South End neighborhood. Dr. Hoover went on to pursue fellowship training in voiding dysfunction and laser prostate surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Hoover is a Board-Certified Urologist, by the American Board of Urology, having achieved this honor in 2018. Dr. Hoover has several peer-reviewed publications, including research studies and medical illustrations. His family is happy to call Gallup home since the end of 2017. In their free time they like to explore New Mexico’s wilderness and go camping. Now that their two girls are growing up, it’s also imperative that we catch Pokemon wherever we go.Dr. Hoover is the only Urologist in McKinley County, New Mexico, and in any of the surrounding counties– it’s just him between Albuquerque and Flagstaff. He’s happy to continue seeing established patients, and is accepting new patients from the entire region. Dr. Hoover believes in communication, candor, and compassion as essential tenets of patient care. Dr. Hoover is an expert in general Urology, male and female voiding dysfunction, kidney stones and kidney stone surgery, BPH and laser prostate surgery, erectile dysfunction, vasectomy, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, testicular cancer. Many of the procedures he do as a Urologist are done in the office including: cystoscopy, vasectomy, urodynamics, treatment foroveractive bladder, and many others. Please call/text or email and let him and his staff know how they can help you.

	Eric Wortmann, MD is the former Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility. Besides patient care, Eric has a deep passion for mentoring aspiring physicians and health care providers. He was the Education Director of Emergency Medicine at Chinle as well as Adjunct Faculty for the US Army teaching Special Forces Medics. He has been a visiting professor of Emergency Medicine in Haiti and has worked in the Dominican Republic since 1989. Eric has a long-time passion as a mid and long-distance running coach. He has lived on Kauai for 30 years. Currently he divides his time between Northern Italy and Hawaii. Recently he was accepted into Doctors without Borders USA and is awaiting his first assignment.

	Corey Detlefs, MD, FACS, is the Trauma Outreach Director and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix

National Strategies

Clinical Resources

Patient Education

Training & CE

HIV Care is Primary Care

National Strategies

The Indigenous Syndemic Strategy: Weaving Together HIV, STI, and Viral Hepatitis Plans

National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Clinical Resources

Tribal Policy Kit & Advocacy Guide

Minors' Access to STI Services

Manual for Allowing Treatment of Beneficiaries

Pharmacist-Operated PrEP Clinic Collaborative Practice Agreement

Evidence-Based Interventions to Prevent HIV and STDs in Indian Country

HIV Primary Care Treatment Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents

HIV/AIDS Clinical Treatment Guidelines

STI Treatment Guidelines (2021)

Toolkit for Express STI Services

Effective Interventions & Capacity Building Resources

Considerations for Performing Whole Blood HIV+Syphilis Testing

The Toolkit for Technology-Based Partner Services

Partner Services Resources

Compassion, Action, Healing: Working with Injection Drug Users in Native Communities

Getting Off Right: A Safety Manual for Injection Drug Users

Guide to Developing and Managing Syringe Programs

North American Syringe Exchange Network

HOPE Rising

Project Red Talon

Treatment as Prevention at Gallup Indian Medical Center

ANTHC Takes the Lead

Healthy Native Youth

Paths (re)Membered

We R Native

Patient Education

Native. Tested. Proud.

Native. LGBT. Proud.

Safer Sex Pocketbooks @ NHR

Native VOICES

Know Your Status

Let's Talk HIV Prevention

Native Health Resources

Training & CE

Providers Have the Power to End HIV in Indian Country

HIV/AIDS Online Training Modules

UW STD Prevention Center Training

PrEP Navigator Training

National HIV Curriculum

HIV Care and Sexual Health Assessment for AI/AN Patients

National STD Curriculum

Indian Country ECHO Training Center

Past ECHO Presentations

Associated Programs