AIDS Science Day 2003

April 4th 2003

Sponsored by the Yale University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

AIDS Science Day is an annual interdisciplinary conference highlighting
the HIV/AIDS research being conducted at Yale and in the local community.

8:00-8:45 Sign In/ Continental Breakfast

8:45-9:00 Welcoming Remarks

Moderator Lauretta Grau, Katie Mosak, Margaret Weeks, Merrill Singer, Susan Shaw

9:00-10:20 Panel I

• 9:00-9:15 "That is on a Need to Know Basis: HIV Status Disclosure Patterns Among Street Drug Users"
  Scott Clair, Margaret Weeks, Steve Borgatti, Katie Mosack
• 9:15-9:30 "Syringe Availability, HIV Risk and Sharing Behavior in Eight Hartford Neighborhoods"
  Susan Shaw, Merrill Singer, Robert Heimer, David Buchanan, Juhem Navarro
• 9:30-9:45 "The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP): Peer-led HIV Prevention with Drug Using Networks in High-Risk Settings"
  Margaret Weeks, Maria Martinez, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Scott Clair
• 9:45-10:00 "Factors in Risky Syringe Discard Among Injection Drug Users"
  Merrill Singer, Wei Teng, Susan Shaw, Robert Heimer, David Buchanan

10:20-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:50 Panel II

• 10:30-10:45 "Integration of Antiretroviral Therapy into an Existing Tuberculosis Directly Observed Therapy Program in a Resource Constrained Setting: START Study"
  Gerald Friedland, C. Jack, U. Lalloo, W. El-Sadr, S. Cassol, M. Murrmann, Q. Abdool Karim, S. Abdool Karim
• 10:45-11:10 "AIDS, Performance, and Participatory Ethnography in Cote d' Ivoire, West Africa"
  Joseph Hellweg
• 11:10-11:15 "Revealing Drug User's Injection Practice and HIV Risks in Guangdong, China"
  Jianghong Li, Merrill Singer, Michael Duke, Peng Lin, Ruiheng Xu Aipine Deng, Wenlong Zhong
• 11:15-11:30 Student Prize Winner Presentation "Determining Risk Factors Associated with Non-adherence in HIV Patients in Costa Rica"
  Brian Stout, Maria Paz Leon, Linda Niccolai

Panel 2 Speakers Jospeh Hellweg, Brian Stout, Gerald Friedland and Jianghong Li

11:50-1:20 Poster Session, Community Booths, and Box Lunch

• "Women, Empowerment, and HIV/AIDS in Kilimanjaro Region, Northern Tanzania: A Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Approach"
  Sharon Jackson
• "Orphaned by AIDS: The Loss of Innocence to a Global Pandemic"
  Andrew Klaber
• "A Pilot Study of Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing of Pregnant Women in Uramqui, China"
  Kaveh Khoshnood, Zhengdong Liu, Kate Wilson, Zunyou Wu
• "Armed Conflict and HIV/AIDS: Impact on Children in Sub-Saharan Africa"
  Mukhtar Mohamed
• "A Study of Familial Characteristics of Drug Users in Iran"
  Sahar Rooholamini, Kaveh Khoshnood, Kathleen Asas
• "A Pilot Intervention Program on AIDS-Induced Orphans in a Kachin Community, Yunnan, China"
  He Zhixiong
• "Measuring HIV Symptom Distress in Rural Zulu Community"
  Erin Shawn, Ann Williams
• "Women, Faith, AIDS and Sex Education in Southern Malawi"
  Fulata Moyo
• "Celebration of Life in the Midst of Brokeness: Course Project Against HIV/AIDS"
  Vuadi Vibila
• "Evaluation of an HIV/AIDS Intervention by the YWCA of Kenya"
  Sylvia Amisi

The Hispanic Health Center Community Booth,
Laura Aponte and Melinda Mendez.

• "Opening the Black Box: Predictors of Successful Peer Health Advocates"
  Julia Dickson-Gomez, Katie Mosack, Mark Convey, Margaret Weeks, Jonathon Stillo
• "Need and Feasibility of Offering Non-Occupational HIV Post Exposure Prevention in the Emergency Department for the City of New Haven"
  Gail D'Onofrio, Kevin Irwin, Kaveh Khoshnood, Linda Degutis
• "Reaching (and not preaching to) Adolescents: A Music-Based HIV Prevention Intervention"
  Anthony Lemieux, Jeffrey Fisher, Felicia Pratto
• "Process Evaluation of a Peer-led HIV Prevention Intervention"
  Maria Martinez, Oscar Woods, Chris Ortiz, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Margaret Weeks

• "The Relationship of Coping and Social Support to Psychological Adjustment Among Bereaved HIV+ Individuals"
  Nathan Grant Smith, Nalini Tarakeshwar, Kathleen Sikkema
• "Outcomes from a Pilot Intervention for HIV-positive Individuals Who Were Sexually Traumatized"
  Nalini Tarakeshwar, Kathleen Sikkema, Nathan Hansen, Arlene Kochman
• "I Have Hope to Continue Living Again: Exploring the Life Experiences of HIV+ People Living on HAART in Thailand's Access to Care Program"
  Katherine Wilson

• "Using Mixed Methodologies for Optimal Research Designs and Data Outcomes: The Study of HIV Risk among Older Urban Adults"
  William Disch
• "Analyzing Multiply Matched Cohort Studies with Two Different Comparison Groups: Application to Pregnancy Rates among HIV+ Women"
  Yan Li, Daniel Zelterman, Brian Forsyth

• "How to Get Works in New Haven: Syringe Availability in City Pharmacies"
  Nabarun Dasgupta
• "Increasing Female Condom Awareness and Use: Global and Local Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Recommendations for Future Programming"
  Helena de Moura Castro, A. Michelle Corbett
• "Communication of Partner Treatment for STDs and Implications for HIV Prevention"
  Linda Niccolai, Kathleen Ethier, Trace Kershaw, Kimberly Zeller, Stephanie Milan, Jessica Lewis, Jeannette Ickovics
• "Comparing HIV Risk in Urban Older Men from Homeless Shelters and Senior Residential Housing"
  Kim Radda, William Disch, Jean Schensul, Gus Lopez, Glenn Scott, Evelyn Baez
• "HIV Risk among Sexual Partners of Drug Users"
  Hassan Saleheen, Scott Clair, Merrill Singer, Elsa Huertas, Jiang Hong Li

1:20-3:00 Panel III

• 1:20-1:35 "The Advent of Female-controlled HIV Prevention Methods and Women's Willingness to Try Vaginal Microbicides"
  Mary Ann Abbott
• 1:35-1:50 "Structural Racism and Black-White Disparities in HIV/AIDS"
  Kim Blankenship, Kristin Mattocks, Marilyn Stolar
• 1:50-2:05 "Integrating HIV, STD and Teen Pregnancy: Window of Opportunity for Prevention"
  Jeannette Ickovics, Trace Kershaw, Linda Niccolai, Jessica Lewis, Christina Meade, Stephanie Milan, Kathleen Ethier
• 2:05-2:20 "Sex-related HIV Risk Among Mexican Non-migrant Farm Workers in the Connecticut River Valley"
  Claudia Santelices, Michael Duke, Anna Marie Nicolaysen, Juhem Navarro, Jiang Hong Li
• 2:20-2:35 Student Prize Winner Presentation "Women's Risk for HIV/AIDS and the Availability of Abortion"
  Yuri Agrawal, Kim Blankenship

Moderator Mark Kinzly, Claudia Santelices, Kim Blakenship, Jeannette Ickovics, Yuri Agrawa, Mary Ann Abbott.

3:00 - 3:15 Coffee Break and Raffle Drawing

Keynote speaker Geeta Rao Gupta.

3:15 - 4:30 Keynote Address:

Geeta Rao Gupta is President of the International Center for Research on Women, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that undertakes policy-oriented research, technical assistance, and advocacy focused on women's economic roles, health and nutrition, the environment and natural resources, adolescent sexual health, and women's rights. Dr. Rao Gupta holds a Ph.D. in social psychology, has over twenty years of experience in research and program development, particularly in the area of women's health, and is an international expert on HIV/AIDS issues. Dr. Rao Gupta serves on many distinguished Boards, including the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the Ms. Foundation, and the Moriah Fund.

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