Women comprise almost half of all adults living with HIV today, and in the last 2 years, the proportion of women and girls living with HIV has increased in every region of the world, especially in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. In sub-Saharan Africa, women comprise nearly 60 percent of adults living with HIV. Effective HIV prevention for women requires understanding how womens risk for HIV/AIDS is rooted in social inequality and power differences between the sexes. Indeed, the pursuit of HIV prevention for women is deeply embedded in the struggle for gender equality.
To download a bibliography of over 70 publications written by conference speakers and/or related to the panel themes, click here.
To download conference presentations, click on presentation titles.
9:00 - 9:15
WELCOME
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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- 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)
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