AIDS Science Day Friday, April 23rd, 2004 Sponsored by the Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

9:00 - 10:00 Panel 1: All About Eve: Gender, Power, and HIV Risk and Prevention

• 9:00 - 9:12 "HIV Risk among Pregnant Women in Haiti: Knowledge is Not Power"
  Trace Kershaw, Maria Small, Rikerdy Frederic, Gabriel Joseph
• 9:12 - 9:24 "In Their Own Voices: Violence Against Women and HIV in the South African Context"
  Ashley Fox, Kathleen Sikkema, Nathan Hansen, Sharon Jackson, Nolwazi Gasa, Mary Crewe
• 9:24 - 9:36 "Use of a Simulated Microbicide in Two-Week Trials by High-Risk Women in Hartford, Connecticut"
  Laurie Sylla, Margaret Weeks, MaryAnn Abbott, Katie Mosack

10:00 - 11:15 Panel II: Outbreak:Hidden Populations and Emerging Epidemics

• 10:05-10:17 "Reaching Injection Drug Users (IDUs) in Guangzhou City of Guangdong, China"
  Yu Cheng, Jianghong Li, Michael Duke, Merrill Singer
• 10:17-10:29 "R.A.R.E. Hartford: Late Night HIV Risk and Prevention Needs"
  Julie Eiserman, Merrill Singer, Erica Hastings
• 10:29-10:41 "A Pilot Program of Methadone Maintenance in a Men's Prison in San Juan, Puerto Rico"
  Robert Heimer, John Zambrano, Arlyn Brunet, Holly Catania, Robert Newman
• 10:41-10:53 "HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Russia Today"
  Andrei Kozlov

12:45 - 2:00 Panel III: Lost in Translation: Hidden Populations and Emerging Epidemics

• 12:45-12:57 "Ethical Standards in Research with Drug Users: Setting an International Agenda"
  Kaveh Khoshnood, Kevin Irwin, Elizabeth Wahl
• 12:57-1:09 "Commercial Sex-Related HIV/AIDS Risk among Non-Migrant Farm Workers in the Connecticut River Valley: The Case of Mexicans and Guatemalans (Part II)"
  Claudia Santelices, Johan Galarza, Anna Marie Nicolaysen, Jianghong Li, Michael Duke
• 1:09-1:21 "Community Attitudes towards Syringe Exchange in Springfield, MA"
  Susan Shaw, Juhem Navarro, Merrill Singer
• 1:21-1:33 "Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices Related to HIV/AIDS among Adolescents in Len, Nicaragua"
  Alim Manji, Rodolfo Pea, Robert Dubrow
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2:00 - 3:00 Panel IV: Analyze This: Clinical Outcomes and HIV

• 2:05-2:17 "Survival in Patients Coinfected with HIV and Hepatitis C: A CD4 Threshold Effect"
  Shawn Fultz, Stephen Becker, Gregory Fusco, Melissa Skanderson, Adeel Butt, Michael Rigsby, Douglas Dieterich, Michael Simberkoff, Chung-Chou Chang, Linda Rabeneck, Maria Rodriguez-Barradas, Amy Justice
• 2:17-2:29 "Office-Based Buprenorphine: A Means of Decreasing HIV/AIDS Risk Behavior?"
  Lynn Sullivan, Marek Chawarski, Patrick O'Connor, Richard Schottenfeld, David Fiellin
• 2:29-2:41 "Psychological Resources Protect Health: Five-Year Survival and Immune Function among Women in the HIV Epidemiology Research Study (HERS)"
  Jeannette Ickovics, Stephanie Milan

3:15 - 4:45 Keynote Panel: "Politics, Ideology, and HIV/AIDS Prevention"

• Science and Politics: Washington Style
  Judith Auerbach, Vice President, Public Policy amfAR
• Kevin Cranston, Acting Director, HIV/AIDS Bureau, MA Department of Public Health
• Ana Oliveira, Executive Director, Gay Men's Health Crisis
• Margaret Weeks, Associate Director, The Institute for Community Research

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