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3160.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | ||||
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| Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) began working in Rwanda in 2004 to provide HIV care for women who had been raped and infected with HIV during the genocide. Working with over 20 Rwandan community partners and within the Rwandan public health infrastructure, WE-ACTx provides Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), 3 clinic sites, a family program, trauma counseling, prevention of mother to child transmission, and an income generation program. The panel will share experiences concerning family centered care, need for food programs, post traumatic stress, and the specific Rwandan experience with HIV and trauma. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Panelist(s): | Mardge H. Cohen, MD Mary Fabri, PsyD Henriette Mukanyonga Anne-christine D'Adesky, MS Lucy Quacinella, Attorney at Law | |||
| Presider(s): | Mardge H. Cohen, MD | |||
| 10:30 AM |  | WE-ACTx in Rwanda: Lessons on HIV and women's empowerment Mardge H. Cohen, MD | ||
| 10:45 AM | | Chronic PTSD and HIV in Rwanda Mary Fabri, PsyD | ||
| 11:00 AM | | Children with HIV and their families: Food, medicines, and play Mardge H. Cohen, MD | ||
| 11:15 AM | | Resilient Rwandan women Henriette Mukanyonga | ||
| 11:30 AM | | A Holistic Approach to the Overlapping Epidemics of HIV, Hunger, Gender Inequity and Poverty Anne-christine D'Adesky, MS | ||
| 11:45 AM | | Legal Advocacy to Promote Health Advocacy in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of East Africa Lucy Quacinella, Attorney at Law, Megan McLemore, JD, LLM | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Socialist Caucus | |||
| Endorsed by: | HIV/AIDS; International Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Women's Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA