HIV CARE BELONGS
IN PRIMARY CARE
STRIVE (Specialized Training in Residency for HIV Excellence) prepares family medicine, nurse practitioner and pharmacy residents to diagnose, treat and stay with people living with HIV. They learn it in the same continuity clinics where they manage diabetes and high blood pressure.
WHY STRIVE
The gap is in primary care.
With treatment, people living with HIV live long lives. They need a primary care clinician for all of it: blood pressure, cholesterol, cancer screening, the flu shot, the hard conversations.
Most HIV care still happens in specialty clinics, and most of those sit in academic centers in large cities. Rural counties, suburbs and many city neighborhoods are left without enough clinicians who can start treatment close to home.
STRIVE closes that gap where it starts: in residency.
“My patients value that they don’t have to go to an HIV specialty clinic. They keep seeing their primary care physician, and we manage their HIV and their other conditions together.”
<1 in 100
<1 in 100
primary care providers currently manage HIV.