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AIDS Science Day 2002

AIDS Science Day 2002

8:15-8:45 Sign In/ Continental Breakfast


8:45-9:00 Welcoming Remarks

Michael Merson, MD Gerald Friedland, MD


9:00-10:10 Panel I: Interventions: What's Hot?

Moderator: Gerald Friedland, MD
  • 9:00-9:15 "The Options Project: A Healthcare Provider-Initiated Risk Reduction Intervention For HIV Infected Individuals in Clinical Care Settings"
    Deborah H. Cornman, K. Rivet Amico, Jeffrey D. Fisher, William A. Fisher, Gerald Friedland
  • 9:15-9:30 "Outcomes of a Community-Level Intervention Among Adolescents"
    Kathleen J. Sikkema
  • 9:30-9:45 "Integrating Spirituality into HIV-Prevention Efforts with Inner-City Drug Users"
    David Marcotte, S. Kelly Avants, Ruth Arnold, Arthur Margolin
  • 9:45-10:00 "A Randomized Controlled Trial of Meditation and Massage for Patients with AIDS at the End of Life"
    Anna-leila Williams, Peter A. Selwyn, Lauren Liberti, Susan Molde, Elaine Rodriguez, Ruth McCorkle, David L. Katz

10:10-10:35 Coffee Break/Informal Discussion with Panelists


10:35-12:00 Panel II: Sex, Drugs, and Politics

Moderator: Robert J. Levine, MD
  • 10:35-10:50 "When IRB Approval is Not Enough"
    David Buchanan, Kaveh Khoshnood
  • 10:50-11:05 "Law, Policing, and HIV Risk Among Female Street Sex Workers"
    Kim M. Blankenship
  • 11:05-11:20 "Microbicide Acceptability to Prevent HIV in High-Risk Urban Women in the U.S."
    Margaret R. Weeks, Laurie Novick Sylla, Jean J. Schensul, Maryann Abbott, Mary Prince, Barbara Valdez, Raquel Martinez
  • 11:20-11:35 "HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral in the HAART Era: Cost-Effectiveness of the CDC Guidelines"
    A. David Paltiel, Milton C. Weinstein, April D. Kimmel, Hong Zhang, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Rochelle Walensky
  • 11:35-11:50 "Proposals for Estimating HIV incidence in the United States from HIV Reporting Data and the Detuned Assay"
    J. Karon, Edward Kaplan, R. Brookmeyer


12:00-1:20 Poster Session, Community Booths, and Box Lunch

Race, Gender, Age and HIV Risk (Hall)
  • Variations in Microbicide Readiness Among High Risk Women by Ethnicity, Age and Types of Partners
    (#A107)
  • HIV Risk Exposures Among Older Men Whose Partners Include Commercial Sex Workers
    (#A110)
  • Racial Differences in Psychological Distress and Coping Among HIV-Positive African-American and White Gay and Bisexual Men
    (#A108)
  • Examining the Correlation Between Partner's Substance Use and Partner Violence
    (#A109)

Drug Use, HIV, and other Health Risks (Room 105)
  • Syringe Exchangers & Non-exchangers Differ in Harm Reduction & Risk Behaviors
    (#A101)
  • Environmental Health Risk Patterns of Syringe Access, Use, and Discard Among Street Injection Drug Users (IDUs) in Hartford, Connecticut
    (#A102)
  • Dancing With Drugs: The Diffusion of MDMA and Other "Dance Drugs" Through Urban Youth Networks
    (#A104)
  • Analysis of Serum IgA Responses in Incident Cases of Hepatitis C Among Injecting Drug Users: Association Between Serum IgA Responses and Exposure Variables
    (#A103)
  • Linking People Through Places: High-Risk Drug Use Sites and Social Networks of Drug Users
    (#A105)
  • Drug User Social Network Linkages for HIV Transmission and Diffusion of HIV Prevention
    (#A106)

Outreach Strategies and HIV (Room 101)
  • "Giving a Dam:" Qualitative Evaluation of a Volunteer AIDS Outreach Intervention
    (#A111)
  • Steps in Training Active Drug Users as Peer Health Advocates
    (#A113)
  • Street Outreach for Accessing Hard to Reach Populations
    (#A114)

HIV in International Context (Room 101)
  • City of Vice, City of Virtue: Conflicting Interpretations of the Tijuana Sex Industry
    (#A112)
  • An Analysis Of The Russian Experience In The Implementation Of The WHO Recommended TB Control Strategy (1994-2000): Recommendations In The Light Of Socio-Economic Situation
    (#A118)
  • A Pilot Study of Prison-to-Community Linkage Program for Persons With Active Tuberculosis (TB) in St. Petersburg, Russia
    (#A115)
  • Study of Social-Economic Impacts of HIV/AIDS on Rural Household with Drug Use in Yunnan
    (#A116)
  • Epidemics of HIV/AIDS and Responses in China
    (#A117)


1:20-1:35, Presentation of Student Poster Award

Moderator: Peter Salovey, PhD
"AIDS Orphans and Their Caregivers in the Tribal Wards of Bergville/Okhahlama District of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa: A Needs Assessment" Shalini Kapoor


1:35-2:35 Keynote Address: "Until There is a Cure"

Phill Wilson, Founder and Executive Director, African American AIDS Policy and Training Institute
Moderator: Michael H. Merson, MD

2:35-2:50 Coffee Break

with rhythms by Drums No Guns, featuring Children of the Sun drum ensemble

Panel III: HIV Risk: Do We Know It All?

Moderator: Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD

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