Increasing Access to Oral Health Care for People Living with HIVAIDS

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Increasing Access to Oral Health Care for People
Living with HIV/AIDS
Jane Fox, MPH, Evaluation Center for HIV and Oral
Health, Boston University School of Public
Health Helene Bednarsh, RDH, MPH, Boston Public
Health Commission Timothy Martinez, DMD,
Evaluation Center for HIV and Oral Health Liz
Faye, BA, Boston University School of Public
Health
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Overview

• HIV and Oral Health
• Unmet oral health care needs among persons living
  with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are substantially higher
  than for the general population, and higher than
  unmet needs for medical care.
• Project Background
• In 2006, The Health Services and Resources
  Administration (HRSA) funded 15 sites nationally
  to create programs that would increase access to
  oral health care for persons living with HIV over
  the next five years. The Health and Disability
  Working Group at Boston University was funded as
  the Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center
  working with all the 15 funded sites.
• For the past year, the 15 sites have been
  collecting quantitative data for the SPNS
  multi-site evaluation in order to address
  client-level, programmatic and systems-level
  questions. Study criteria dictate that patients
  be HIV positive, at least 18 years old and have
  not received oral health care (outside of an
  emergency) in the past 12 months. The analysis of
  some of the baseline data collected thus far
  provides some interesting insight into the
  population these 15 innovative programs have
  reached and their oral health care needs.

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Self-reported oral problems
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