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HIV Care and Sexual Health Assessment for American Indian and Alaska Native Patients


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Explore best practices in inclusive sexual health assessment and HIV care. These courses recognize research, data, and evaluation as indigenous values, while utilizing the strengths of western science and staying grounded in traditional ways of knowing.

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These modules were created and funded by Urban Indian Health Institute, a Tribal Epidemiology Center that serves Urban Indian Health Programs across the nation.

About this Independent Study

This activity was originally released on October 1, 2018 and is available for continuing education credit until March 18, 2028. Last reviewed/updated on March 2026.

This online course is to help prepare clinicians to sensitively care for LGBTQ2S clients and to provide quality, inclusive, sexual health assessment and optimal HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care. 

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for staff who provide medical care to American Indian and Alaska Native patients. This includes physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical assistants and other staff involved in patient care, including clinical providers working with Indian Health Services, Tribally Operated Clinics and Urban Indian Clinics.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Incorporate best practices for offering patient-centered sexual healthcare for persons from gender and sexual minorities  

  • Outline a framework for obtaining culturally sensitive sexual histories from LGBTQ2S patients and explain why this is important in clinical care  

  • Explain basic principles of HIV transmission, testing, treatment, and prevention to patients at risk for infection 

  • Compare and contrast the currently available forms of biomedical HIV prevention: U=U, PEP, and PrEP  

    There are five sections in this series:

    • Introduction and Overview
    • Module 1: Culturally Proficient Sexual Health Care for People of all Genders and Sexual Orientations
    • Module 2: Sexual Health Assessment
    • Module 3: Talking with Patients about HIV
    • Module 4: Biomedical Prevention of HIV 

    To Enroll

    Select the radio button under the continuing education type that you need, then select the Enroll button above it. These buttons are at the right of the computer screen. 

    If you need to change your selection, unenroll from one course and enroll in the correct one. 

    Registration & Fees

    This course is FREE OF CHARGE. 

    Continuing Nursing Education (CNE)

    Cardea Services is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

    Upon successful completion of this activity 2.5 contact hours will be awarded. 

    Continuing Medical Education (CME)

    This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA) through the joint providership of Cardea and the Urban Indian Health Institute, a division of the Seattle Indian Health Board. Cardea is accredited by the CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    Cardea designates this internet activity enduring material for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Successful completion of this continuing education activity includes the following:

    • Completing the entire CE activity
    • Completing the online evaluation
    • Submitting an online CE Request

    Disclosures

    No one with the ability to control the content of this activity has relevant relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

    Funding

    These learning modules were created and funded by Urban Indian Health Institute, a Tribal Epidemiology Center that serves Urban Indian Health Programs across the nation. They recognize research, data, and evaluation as indigenous values while utilizing the strengths of western science and staying grounded in traditional ways of knowing. Their mission is to decolonize data, for indigenous people, by indigenous people.

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    Here is the course outline:

    Introduction and Overview

    Introduction and Overview

    Culturally Proficient Sexual Health Care for People of all Genders and Sexual Orientations

    Module 1

    Sexual Health Assessment

    Module 2

    Talking with Patients about HIV

    Module 3

    Biomedical Prevention of HIV

    Module 4

    Evaluation & Certificate

    Complete a course evaluation and receive certificate.

    Completion

    The following certificates are awarded when the course is completed:

    Certificate of Completion
    CNE Independent Study
    CME for MD/DO Jointly Provided: Enduring Material
    CME for Non-MD/DO Jointly Provided: Enduring Material
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