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9:00 - 9:15

WELCOME

• Michael Merson, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health and Director, CIRA, Yale University
• Kim M. Blankenship, Associate Research Scientist, School of Public Health and Associate Director, CIRA, Yale University

9:15 - 9:30

OPENING REMARKS

• Karina Danvers, Director, CT AIDS Education & Training Center, School of Nursing, Yale University

9:30 - 10:45

PANEL # 1: SOCIAL UPHEAVAL, GENDER, AND HIV RISK

Panel Chair: Hazel Ayanga, International Trainee, CIRA, Yale University

Panelists:

• Paula Donovan, Senior Advisor, Office of the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa
  Presentation: Gender, Conflict and HIV/AIDS
• Kathleen Sikkema, Associate Professor of Public Health, Psychology, and Psychiatry, School of Public Health, Yale University
  Presentation: Empowering Abused Women in South Africa: Preliminary Findings from an Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk (.pdf)
• Noah Webster (presenting), Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University and Sandra Lane, Chair, Department of Health and Wellness, Professor of Social Work, Syracuse University, and Research Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University
  Presentation: Structural Violence and Racial Disparity in HIV Transmission: community-level/ecological factors placing minority women at increased risk

10:45 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:30

PANEL # 2: SEX WORK AND HIV

Panel Chair: Kim M. Blankenship, Associate Research Scientist, School of Public Health and Associate Director, CIRA, Yale University

Panelists:

• Julia Dickson-Gomez, Research Associate, The Institute for Community Research
  Presentation: Reinforcing Epidemics: Poverty, Violence, Crack and HIV Among Women in El Salvador (.pdf)
• Tanya Sharpe, Research Behavioral Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCHSTP/Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
  Presentation: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women: Structural Issues Shape Personal Choices (.pdf)
• Susan Sherman, Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
  Presentation: An evaluation of the Jewelry Education for Women Empowering Their Lives (JEWEL) study: A novel HIV prevention intervention targeting drug using women (.pdf)
• Alice Miller, Assistant Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  Presentation: Conditioning Health, Conditioning Rights: The Role and Impact of the Anti-Prostitution Pledge in U.S. HIV/AIDS Funding Streams

12:30 - 1:30

LUNCH

1:30 - 2:45

PANEL # 3: WOMEN CONTROLLED HIV PREVENTION METHODS

Panel Chair: Jeannette Ickovics, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Yale University

Panelists:

• Lori Heise, Director, Global Campaign for Microbicides
  Presentation: Microbicides: Addressing some key questions (.pdf)
• Laurie Sylla, Research Project Director, Yale AIDS Program, Yale School of Medicine
  Presentation: Conducting Microbicide Clinical Trials: Ethical Conundrums (.pdf)
• Margaret Weeks, Executive Director, The Institute for Community Research
  Presentation: Female Condoms: The Best kept Secret in Woman-Initiated HIV Prevention

2:45 3:00

COFFEE BREAK

3:00 - 4:30

PANEL # 4: IN PURSUIT OF GENDER EQUALITY: THE PLACE OF MEN

Panel Chair: Trace Kershaw, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Yale University

Panelists:

• Ras Mo Moses, Director, Pink & Blue Arts for Violence Prevention Project
  Presentation: Challenging Stereotypes, Providing HIV Prevention Education, and Exploring Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Through Music
• Gary Barker, Chief Executive Officer, Instituto PROMUNDO, Brazil
  Presentation: Working with Young Men to Change Gender Norms and Reduce HIV/AIDS: Lessons from Program H (.pdf)
• Jessie Daniels, Project Director, REAL MEN, Center for Community and Urban Health, Hunter College
  Presentation: Reducing Recidivism, Drug Involvement and Sexual Risk Behavior at Re-Entry: The Real Men Project (.pdf)
• David Seal, Associate Professor, Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR), Medical College of Wisconsin
  Presentation: Men: The Forgotten Gender in the Heterosexual Transmission of HIV (.pdf)