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3276.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM | ||||
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| HIV/AIDS remains a global epidemic, especially in East and Southern Africa. The focus of the posters in this session is identifying prevalence rates, risk behaviors, antiretrovial therapy issues, and treatment/prevention options for vulnerable segments of the African population. Topics covered in this session are as follows: (1) issues surrounding negotiating condom use with older male partners by young females; (2) how condom use is impacted by the perception and behavior of individual as well as community leaders; (3) documentation of the policies and programs in different countries regarding perinatal HIV transmission; (4) investigating barriers to condom use and other HIV risk behaviors in order to develop more effective intervention and prevention programs; (5) adherence to ART and barriers associated with such; (6) how to develop peer programs targeting adolescents at risk for HIV transmission; and (7) document how health care workers and professionals are responding to the HIV testing and counseling needs of their country. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe individual and community risk factors associated with risky sexual behaviors among persons residing in east and southern Africa. 2. Discuss the efficacy of different treatment programs and prevention strategies among persons residing in east and southern Africa. 3. Describe current diagnostic testing and counseling services among vulnerable populations residing in east and southern Africa. | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Amanda Tanner, PhD, MPH | |||
| Board 1 |  | From “Doing runs” to those who “Use ampiclox to flush diseases”: Partner types, condom use and HIV-protective behaviors of a mixed sample of young Nigerian women Veronica N. Uzoebo, Barbara Wallace, PhD | ||
| Board 2 | Individual- and community-level factors affecting condom use during high risk sex in Zambia: Perceptions, norms and behaviors Dominique Meekers, PhD, Mai Do, DrPH, Paul Hutchinson, PhD | |||
| Board 3 | Integrating HIV/AIDS services with antenatal and delivery care: A comparison between the PMTCT Programs in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes, PhD | |||
| Board 4 | Sexual risk behavior and differences among female school drop-outs in the Western Cape of South Africa Winnie Luseno, MS, Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD, Rachel Middlesteadt Ellerson, Siobhan K. Young, MPH, Celeste Naidoo | |||
| Board 5 | HIV/AIDS treatment adherence monitoring and promotion policies and practices in East Africa Abiola Johnson, BA, MSc | |||
| Board 6 | Involving trained youth in school-based care and support activities for orphans and vulnerable children in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Tobey Nelson, MPH, Eka Williams, PhD, Lungile Mchunu, Pinkie Nyamakazi, S'fiso Mnguni | |||
| Board 7 | Individual- and community-level factors affecting multiple sex partners in Zambia: Perceptions, norms and behaviors Mai Do, DrPH, Dominique Meekers, PhD, Paul Hutchinson, PhD | |||
| Board 8 | Alcohol-related risk behavior among VCT clients in Kenya: Results of a baseline survey Karusa Kiragu, PhD | |||
| Board 9 | Preparedness for diagnostic testing and counseling (DTC): A national survey of Kenyan health workers Karusa Kiragu, PhD, I. Tanui, Dr | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | HIV/AIDS | |||
| Endorsed by: | Epidemiology; International Health; Socialist Caucus | |||
The 135th APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 3-7, 2007) of APHA