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Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)/AETC National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline)

The National HIV/AIDS Clinician’s Consultation Center, the PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis) line, the Warmline, and the AETC Technical Assistance site is housed at San Francisco General Hospital.

They offer health care providers up-to-the-minute clinical information and case consultation. Staffed by clinicians experienced in HIV care, the Warmline supports health care providers in caring for their patients with asymptomatic and symptomatic HIV disease, enabling more patients to remain in their communities with their own medical providers and social support networks.

Exposure to blood-borne pathogens can present serious risks to health care providers. Prompt post-exposure treatment for HIV and hepatitis B virus can be effective, but because each exposure case is unique, determining who should receive prophylaxis and which drugs are most appropriate is not always easy.

The National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (PEPline) offers treating clinicians up-to-the-minute advice on managing occupational exposures (i. e., needlesticks, splashes, etc.) to HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens.

PEPline clinicians will respond to your call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Emergency calls made during evening, weekend, and holiday hours are forwarded to on-call clinicians. Non-emergency calls will be returned during business hours. 

Clinicians will help assess the risk of the exposure, discuss the most recent post-exposure prophylaxis protocols, and review specific treatment and follow-up options. Written materials supporting the telephone discussion are sent by mail or fax whenever needed.

California AETC's

San Francisco Area AETC

Training Director: Bob Teague, MSSW
UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital
http://www.ucsf.edu/sfaetc
Department of Family and Community Medicine
P. O. Box 1365
San Francisco, CA 94143-1365
Phone: (415) 476-7059
FAX: (415) 476-3454

Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties
74 New Montgomery St., 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 597-8198
(415) 597-9386 fax
Site Director: E. Michael Reyes, M.D., M.P.H.

East Bay Area AETC
Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano Counties
Highland Hospital
Site Director: Kathleen Clanon, MD
Phone (510) 271-4513

UC Davis AETC
Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba Counties
Site Director: Frederick Meyers, MD
Phone (916) 734-3365

San Jose Area AETC
Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties
Health Education and Training Center
Site Director: Esperanza Garcia-Walters, RN, MPH
Phone (408) 881-0230

North Coast Area AETC
Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma Counties
Sonoma Academic Foundation for Excellence in Medicine
Site Director: Marshall Kubota, MD
Phone (707) 527-6223

San Joaquin Valley Area AETC
Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, and Tulare Counties
San Joaquin Valley Health Consortium
Site Director: Mary Wallace
Program Manager: Andrés Alba
Phone (559) 446-2323
Fax (559) 446-2327
PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis) LINE
1 (888) 448-4911
24 hours a day
7 days a week

Quality improvement for TB case management

This interactive online course provides TB control program managers and staff with information for developing a systematic quality improvement program for TB case management.

The course includes guidelines, case-based scenarios, resources and forms that can be modified for the learner's worksite.

http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/pmi/working1/

Tuberculin Skin Testing: Tools for Trainers

These materials were originally designed as a set of two binders containing materials for participants in CNTC's Tuberculin Skin Testing: A Model for Trainers train-the-trainer course. The binders are no longer available in print form, but their contents are now available online as a collection of training tools designed to help experienced TB nurses and program staff.

The online publication includes a section designed for trainers and a section with materials for health care professionals (training recipients), such as handouts, training outlines, PowerPoint presentations and other visuals that could be used in classroom discussion.
 

http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/catalogue/epub/tst/index.html

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