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This session will describe the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Oral Health Initiative, and showcase four funded sites using different programmatic models to increase access to oral health care to patients living with HIV. This session will present baseline data from over 1600 HIV positive patients receiving oral health care through this initiative. Representatives from each site will discuss their unique program models and describe successes and challenges they have encountered in program planning and implementation. In addition they will discuss their methods for program sustainability. Finally demographic data will be presented by the Evaluation Center for HIV and Oral Health at Boston University of the 1600+ HIV patients receiving oral health care throughout the US at the 15 funded sites.

Session Objectives: 1. Describe four models used in increasing access to oral health services for patients living with HIV; 2. List at least four demographic features of HIV patients receiving oral health care through the SPNS initiative; and 3. Discuss at least two challenges and resolutions specific to the models presented.

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)