8:30-9:00

REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00-9:15

WELCOMING REMARKS

Paul D. Cleary and Elaine O'Keefe

9:15-10:00

AIDS Denialism and Pseudoscience: Resurgent Threat to Public Health

Seth Kalichman, Professor, University of Connecticut, Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP)

Location: Ballroom

10:00-10:15

BREAK

10:15-11:30

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session One

Accentuate the Positive: Prevention for MSM

Chair: Edward White

Location: College AB

10:15-10:30

"An Overview of 'Positive Prevention' Approaches to HIV Risk Reduction among HIV-infected MSM"
Stacy Fambro, Nathan Hansen, Patrick A. Wilson

10:30-10:45

"Exploring Situational Factors Impacting HIV Risk Episodes among HIV+ MSM"
Patrick A. Wilson

10:45-11:00

"A Brief, Care-based Risk Reduction Intervention for Newly HIV-diagnosed MSM"
Nathan Hansen, Patrick A. Wilson, Arlene Kochman, Kathleen J. Sikkema

11:00-11:15

"Towards an Understanding of Sexual Risk Behavior among HIV-positive Men who Have Sex with Men in Beijing, China"
Shuo Wang, Hongbo Zhang, Zunyou Wu, Jie Xu, Juan Xu

Session Two

Love is a Battlefield: Understanding Women's Risk

Chair: Jeannette R. Ickovics

Location: Ballroom

10:15-10:30

"Gender-related Effects of Expanded Adult Male Circumcision Programs in Southern Africa: The Impact of Power Dynamics and Potential Risk Compensation on Heterosexual HIV Transmission"
Kyeen Andersson, Douglas K. Owens, A. David Paltiel

10:30-10:45

"Promoting Female Condoms in Sex Work Establishments in Southern China: Experiences in Chengmai County"
Margaret R. Weeks

10:45-11:00

"Culturally-based Women's Gynecological Problems as Markers for HIV/STI Risk in Mumbai, India"
Kristin Kostick, Stephen L. Schensul, Shweta Bankar

11:00-11:15

"To Determine Whether BMI among Young Mothers Relates to Sexual Risk"
Trace Kershaw, Anna Arnold, Jessica Lewis, Urania Magriples, Jeannette Ickovics

11:30-12:45

COMMUNITY BOOTHS & POSTERS

Visit our community booths and posters. Have your raffle card stamped. Enjoy your complimentatry lunch!

Community Organization Booths

Location: Adjacent to the Ballroom

• African Immigrants AIDS Watch
• AIDS Project New Haven
• Alliance for Living
• Community Health Center, Inc.
• Community Partners in Action
• Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition (CARC)
• Hispanic Health Council (HHC)
• Hispanos Unidos Inc.
• Leeway, Inc.
• Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, Inc.
• Wheeler Clinic, Inc.
• Yale-New Haven Hospital AIDS Care Program
• Yale School of Medicine

Poster Presentations

Location: College AB

• Sexual Risk Behaviors among Interracial Teen Couples, Kwaku Ayebi-Awuah, Trace Kershaw, Anna Arnold
• Potent Chimeric NRTI-NNRTI Bifunctional Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase, Christopher Bailey, Todd Sullivan, Julian Tirado-Rives, Raymond Chung, Juliana Ruiz-Caro, William Jorgensen, Roger Hunter, Karen Anderson
• Evaluation of Patient-healthcare Provider Relationships and its Association with Adherence to Antenatal Care, Oliver Barry, Brian W.C. Forsyth, Trace Kershaw, Jennifer Makin Pattinson, AnnMarie Bergh, Elsie Etsane
• (ART) Antiretroviral Therapy, Sarah Beckham
• Assessing Sexual HIV Risk among Young Adult Women in Ukraine, Martha Bojko
• The Efficacy of HIV Interventions in Latin America: A Meta-Analysis, Marcy Boynton, Blair T. Johnson, Tania Huedo-Medina
• Previous Relationship Influence on Time to Unprotected Sex among Adolescent Couples, Rachael Gerber, Trace Kershaw, Anna Arnold
• Community Level Predictors of Sexual Risk among Young Couples in Connecticut, Mihan Lee, Trace Kershaw, Anna Arnold
• Estimating HIV Incidence in Connecticut, Heather Noga, Melinda Vazquez, Aaron Roome
• African Immigrants and HIV/AIDS in Connecticut: Opportunity for Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention Services, Adedokun Olanrewaju
• The Influence of Acculturation on HIV/STD Risk Knowledge and Condom Attitudes, Emily Ricketson, Lauren Pellegrino, Jeannette R. Ickovics, Sabrina Zadrozny
• Barriers to Safer Sexual Behavior and HIV Risk Reduction Counseling for HIV-positive Adults in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa (SA), Lindsay Shepherd, Deborah Cornman, Susan MacDonald, Sarah Christie, G. Mahlase, Abidemi Adelaja, S. Pillay, Paul Shuper, Susan M. Kiene, William Fisher, Gerald H. Friedland, Jeffrey D. Fisher
• Health Services Utilization in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Directly Administered Antiretroviral Therapy for Active Drug Users, David Shield, Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru, Frederick L. Altice
• Indications of Network Effects in the Distribution of Chlamydia among Young People in Connecticut: Results from the BMERI Study, Edward White, Melinda Pettigrew, Linda Niccolai
• Personalization of Risk: Does Knowing Someone with HIV/AIDS Influence Sexual Risk Behavior?, Sabrina Zadrozny, Trace Kershaw, Jeannette R. Ickovics, Claire Westdahl, Sharon S. Rising
• Sex Partner to Serious Relationship Ratio and Sexual Risk among Young Expectant Couples, Molly Zielenbach, Trace Kershaw, Anna Arnold

Location: Adjacent to the Ballroom

• Status of Resistance to Antiretroviral Drugs and Evaluating HIV Medication Resistance among Drug Users, Irina Kozodoy
• Ego- or Macro-Network Analysis? Making a Choice to Evaluate a Peer-delivered Intervention to Reduce Drug User HIV Risk, JiangHong Li, Margaret R. Weeks, Junjie Li
• Social Determinants of Mixed Feeding Behavior among HIV-infected Mothers in Jos, Nigeria, Sheela Maru, Pam Datong, Dilhatu Selleng, Edwina Mang, Buki Inyang, Anuli Ajene, Ruth Guyit, Man Charurat, Alash'le Abimiku
• Examining Changes in the Psychological Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic among Newly Diagnosed HIV+ Pregnant Women in South Africa, Heather Sipsma, Brian W. C. Forsyth, Maretha Visser, Jennifer Makin Pattinson, Jonathan Mundell, Bridget Shirley Jeffery
• Influence of Social Network Characteristics on Risky Behavior among Injection Drug Users, Elena Stolyarova
• HIV Transmission Risk Behavior and Drug Resistance among HIV+ Patients on Methadone or Buprenorphine, Jeanette Tetrault, Michael Kozal, David A. Fiellin, Lynn Sullivan

12:45-2:00

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Session Three

Mess Around: Alcohol, Drugs and HIV Risk

Chair: Kaveh Khoshnood

Location: College AB

12:45-1:00

"HIV Risk Behaviors and Physician Screening Practices during Office-based Buprenorphine"
Lynn Sullivan, Brent Moore, Sam Cawley, Richard S. Schottenfeld, David A. Fiellin

1:00-1:15

"The Potential for Bridging of HIV Transmission in Russian Federation: Sex Risk Behaviors and HIV Prevalence among Drug Users (DU) and Their Non-DU Sex Partners"
Linda Niccolai, Robert Heimer, Andrei Kozlov, Sergei Verevochkin, Russell Barbour, Olga Toussova

1:15-1:30

"Pilot Results from a Stage 1 Cognitive Behavioral Trial to Reduce Alcohol Use among HIV-infected Kenyans"
Rebecca Papas, Joseph Goulet, Amy C. Justice, David Ayuku, John Sidle, Joyce Ballidawu, Otieno Omollo, Rogers Songole, Steven Maisto, Steve Martino

1:30-1:45

"Impact of Yunnan's Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) on Behavioral Change of Patients"
Junjie Li, Manhong Jia, Songfeng Pan, Xiangdong Min

Session Four

Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Overcoming HIV Service Implementation Barriers

Chair: Jeffrey D. Fisher

Location: Ballroom

12:45-1:00

STUDENT PRIZE WINNER: "Piloting a Prevention for Positives Intervention in South Africa: A Descriptive Examination of Risk Behavior and Utility of Risk Reduction Strategies for HIV-positive Patients Receiving HIV Medical Care"
Laramie Smith, Deborah Cornman, Jeffrey D. Fisher, Lindsay Shepherd, Susan MacDonald, Paul Shuper, Sarah Christie, Janet Frolich, William Fisher

1:00-1:15

"Supportive AIDS Housing: Barriers and Challenges"
Shawn Lang, John Merz, Kim M. Blankenship, Amy Smoyer, Chris Kelly

1:15-1:30

"Latinos Living with HIV/AIDS: Access to Sub-Acute Care"
Jean M. Breny-Bontempi and Martha Dale (co-presenters)

1:30-1:45

"Police-Public Health Collaboration in HIV Prevention: A Needs-Assessment Survey"
Leo Beletsky, Robert Heimer, Lauretta E. Grau

2:00-2:15

COFFEE BREAK AND FIRST RAFFLE DRAWING

• $100 gift certificate for FOSTER'S Restaurant located at 56 Orange Street, New Haven, CT

2:15-4:30

KEYNOTE
Evidence to Action: Adaptation of HIV Research in the Practice Setting

Moderator: Elaine O'Keefe

Location: Ballroom

 

Charles Collins, Team Leader, Science Application Team, Capacity Building Branch, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Presentation Slides

 

Barry Callis, Director, AIDS Prevention and Education Unit, Bureau of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health - Presentation Slides

 

Soraya Elcock, Deputy Director for Policy & Government Relations, Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc.

 

Seth Kalichman, Professor, University of Connecticut, Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) - Presentation Slides

4:30

SECOND RAFFLE DRAWING

Turn in your evaluation with your raffle card for another chance to win!

• Two tickets to Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Death of a Salesman