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Developing Targeted Interventions to Advance Maternal Health in a Geographic Medicaid Accountable Care Organization: Lessons From the Implementation of Camden Delivers
Through the design and launch of Camden Delivers the Coalition developed targeted interventions within an ACO infrastructure to advance maternal health in a Medicaid-covered population. Key insights from this process include the need to:* Utilize data to understand community need and design interventions around that need* Establish a population health surveillance system to produce actionable data to intervene with a complex population* Institute a tiered intervention system targeted to identified need, and* Leverage and coordinate across existing resources in the community to reduce duplication.Going forward, with the infrastructure developed by the Coalition to collect and review health data, along with the intricate web of community partners and resources, the next step in this program is to enhance feedback loops between partners and to help navigate patients seamlessly between partners during the highly fragmented experience of managing a pregnancy and healthcare during the interconception period. A formal network of communication between patients, case workers, care managers, providers and community resources through more sophisticated use of data and convening will allow us to support vulnerable patients in an even more effective manner. The Coalition looks forward to playing this convener role and working across groups to the end of better care management services and improved health for women of maternal age in Camden
Neuropathogenic role of astrocyteâderived extracellular vesicles in HIVâassociated neurocognitive disorders
Abstract Our previous findings demonstrated that astrocytic HIFâ1α plays a major role in HIVâ1 Tatâmediated amyloidosis which can lead to Alzheimer'sâlike pathologyâa comorbidity of HIVâAssociated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND). These amyloids can be shuttled in extracellular vesicles, and we sought to assess whether HIVâ1 Tat stimulated astrocyteâderived EVs (ADEVs) containing the toxic amyloids could result in neuronal injury in vitro and in vivo. We thus hypothesized that blocking HIFâ1α could likely mitigate HIVâ1 TatâADEVâmediated neuronal injury. Rat hippocampal neurons when exposed to HIVâ1 TatâADEVs carrying the toxic amyloids exhibited amyloid accumulation and synaptodendritic injury, leading to functional loss as evidenced by alterations in miniature excitatory post synaptic currents. The silencing of astrocytic HIFâ1α not only reduced the biogenesis of ADEVs, as well as amyloid cargos, but also ameliorated neuronal synaptodegeneration. Next, we determined the effect of HIVâ1 TatâADEVs carrying amyloids in the hippocampus of naive mice brains. Naive mice receiving the HIVâ1 TatâADEVs, exhibited behavioural changes, and Alzheimer's âsâlike pathology accompanied by synaptodegeneration. This impairment(s) was not observed in mice injected with HIFâ1α silenced ADEVs. This is the first report demonstrating the role of amyloidâcarrying ADEVs in mediating synaptodegeneration leading to behavioural changes associated with HAND and highlights the protective role of HIFâ1α