Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)

The TEACHH intervention is a workshop for healthcare providers focused on increasing their gender-affrming HIV care competency and reducing HIV and trans stigma, factors that impact trans women’s access to HIV prevention, treatment and support. We used two structured processes of intervention adaptation and development (Card’s 7 Steps, ADAPT-ITT model) and proposed a theoretically informed intervention drawing on the Information-Motivation-Behavioural Skills model. This brief intervention showed promise in improving gender-affirming provider knowledge, perceived competency, and attitudes/biases, particularly among those with less trans and HIV experience.

Publications

1) Lacombe-Duncan, A., Kia, H., Logie, C.H., Todd, K.P., Persad, Y., Leblanc, G., Nation, K., Scheim, A., Lyons, T., Horemans, C., & Loutfy, M. (2021). A qualitative exploration of barriers to HIV prevention, treatment, and support: Perspectives of transgender women and service providers. Health and Social Care in the Community, 29(5), e33-246.

2) Lacombe-Duncan, A., Logie, C.H., Persad, Y., Leblanc, G., Nation, K., Kia, H., Scheim, A., Lyons T., Horemans, C., Olawale, R. & Loutfy, M. (2021). Implementation and evaluation of the Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)’ provider education pilot. BMC Medical Education, 21(1), 1-14.

3) Lacombe-Duncan, A., Logie, C.H., Persad, Y., Leblanc, G., Nation, K., Kia, H., Scheim, A., Lyons,T., & Loutfy, M. (2020). ‘Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)’: Protocol of community-based participatory intervention development and a nonrandomized multi-site pilot study with pre- post-test design in Canada. BMJ Open, 10:e034144.