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Her & Now’s mission is to strengthen clinician knowledge and comfort with providing menopause and midlife care to women living with HIV.

Her & Now integrates the lived experiences and perspectives of women with HIV with clinician expertise to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary curriculum and resources.

This session reviews the latest evidence on mood, sleep, and hot flashes occurring during menopause. Depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance are common among women with HIV, and the mechanisms through which menopause and HIV may interact to influence mental health will be discussed. Further, women with HIV may experience more burdensome menopausal hot flashes, that have been shown to influence adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Participants will gain an understanding of the prevalence, underlying mechanisms, and clinical management of these common symptoms.

Presenters - Menopause and HIV International Experts:

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the core components of the neuropsychological symptoms across the menopause transition – depression, sleep disorders, thermoregulatory dysfunction.
2. Characterize hormonal, stress, and other female-specific contributors to risk of symptom burden.
3. Examine the psychological and social mechanisms through which menopause and HIV may interact to influence mental health symptoms depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and cognitive changes.
4. Describe current research on hot flashes in women with HIV including associated health characteristics.
5. Identify evidence-informed strategies for the assessment and management of mental health symptoms and hot flashes during the menopausal transition among women with and without HIV.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for clinicians caring for women living with HIV.

ACCREDITATION (per session)
In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM
Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing
Mass General Brigham designates this activity for 1.5 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacists
This activity provides 1.5 contact hours (1.5 CEUs) of continuing education credit. ACPE Universal Activity Number (UAN): JA0007437-0000-26-019-L01-P

Psychologists
In support of improving patient care, Mass General Brigham is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

1.5 Continuing Education (CE) credits are awarded

Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Mass General Brigham is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Mass General Brigham maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credit.