AIDS Science Day 2002

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

8:45-9:00 Welcoming Remarks

Panel 1 moderator Gerald Friedland with presenters Kathy Sikkema,
Deborah Cornman, David Marcotte, and Anna-Leila Williams.

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

• 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

• 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

The Community Health Center Community Booth,
pictured Francisco Rosa and Abigail Ortiz.

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

• 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)

• 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)

• "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)

• 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)

Peter Salovey presenter and Shalini Kapoor
recipient of Student Poster Award.

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

Keynote speaker Phil Wilson.

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

2:35-2:50 Coffee Break

Drums No Guns provides entertainment
and rhythms during coffee break.

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

• 2:50-3:05 "Integrated Theory of Reasoned Action Predicts Later Condom Use Among Low-Income Inner-City Women"
  Loraine Devos-Comby, Danielle McCarthy, Heather Ferris, Peter Salovey
• 3:05-3:20 "HIV Knowledge and Perceptions of Risk Among Persons with Mental Illness and Substance Dependence in Transitional Housing Settings: A Pilot Study"
  Jhan Doughty, Bret Kloos, Susan O. Zimmerman, Christina S. Meade, Dietra D. Hawkins, Jacob van den Berg, David L. Snow, Kathleen J. Sikkema
• 3:20-3:35 "Examining the Effect of Domestic Violence on HIV Risk"
  Michael Duke, Hassan N. Saleheen, Wei Tang, Jennie Wakefield, Luci Rohena, Judi Murphy, Janie Simmons, Merrill Singer, Peg Weeks, Scott Clair
• 3:35-3:50 "An In-Depth Look at the Risk Behaviors and Service Needs of At-Risk MSMs in Connecticut"
  Scott Clair, Paul Boticello, Joseph Ornat
• 3:50-4:05 "You are Where You Live: The Social Geography of Health Risk Among Latino Drug Users"
  Merrill Singer, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Robert Heimer, David Buchanan, Kaveh Khoshnood
• 4:05-4:20 "The Interactive Influences of Social Networks, Drug-abuse and Risk Behavior on STDS and HIV/AIDS Risk Among Male Migrants to Mumbai, India"
  Jay Schensul, S. K. Singh, P. Nangia

AIDS Science Day conference summaries:

• 2009 - Theme to be announced
• 2007 - Making HIV Testing Routine: Opportunities and Challenges
• 2005 - Holding Open Space: Re-tooling and Re-imagining HIV Prevention Research for Gay and Bisexual Men
• 2004 - Politics, Ideology, and HIV/AIDS Prevention
• 2003 - Unlocking Solutions to AIDS: Women Hold the Key
• 2002 - Until There is a Cure