Brief: Expanding Access to Patient Navigation Services is Critical

Making it easier for people to engage in HIV treatment and prevention services is a critical first step to sustaining good health outcomes. Patient navigation can play a key role in increased engagement in care.

Patient navigation has been proven to improve engagement in care and retention, improve health outcomes, and be cost effective, and the evidence base for patient navigation in HIV care is growing. Patient navigation is a term for a range of services offered by various types of health care workers to facilitate consistent, effective engagement with services and can be critical to a variety of care settings where HIV diagnosis can occur, including in CBOs, sexual health clinics, syringe service programs (SSPs), and emergency departments.

Read the Big Ideas in Brief here. 

Read the Big Ideas here.