QUESTIONS
• What is our program’s expertise? role do we play in the network of organizations we work with to serve the population living with or at immediate • What risk of HIV and hepatitis C (amongst other conditions such as poverty, precarious housing and employment, food insecurity)?
• What can we do to fill the gaps? • What gaps currently exist that we aren’t able to fulfill—and what can we do to help draw attention to these issues? • What HIV or hepatitis C-specific programs or services do we offer that might be applicable to both populations? • How do we navigate and monitor the outputs of work we conduct in partnership? • Does coordination or colocation make more sense in our organization/in our region? • Is peer health navigation an intervention that would make sense in our organization/in our region? does our organization learn what we learn about what’s happening with the people we provide services to (e.g. • Where changes in drug supply/availability, emerging barriers to health services, etc.)?
you compensating peer workers fairly? If not, what’s your plan to ensure you’ll be able to compensate them in • Are the near future?
• Where can HIV or hepatitis C messages be incorporated in existing health promotion resources/interventions? • Would a treatment support program enhance our services? How would we implement one in our organization? does GIPA/MIPA look like at our organization? Are people living with hepatitis C also meaningfully involved • What in our organization? • How would we implement a Patient Advisory Board or similar structure in our organization? are practical steps we would need to undertaken to address the sexual transmission of hepatitis C in our • What programs engaging HIV-positive gay men? What would be the challenges?
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