5132.0 HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 10:30 AM
Oral
HIV/AIDS continues to be a health issue that plagues populations across the world. In this session, presentations on innovative strategies to prevent HIV/AIDS will be highlighted. In particular, presentations will focus on factors that may promote unsafe practices for preventing HIV, such as adaptive and maladaptive cognitions and alcohol use. This session also includes a presentation on a CDC initiative to address HIV/AIDS prevention by building on past experiences in a particular setting.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe cognitions that promote and inhibit behaviors for HIV/AIDS. 2. Discuss innovative strategies to prevent HIV. 3. Describe the relationships of family planning discussions and STI/HIV knowledge with partner notification of STI/HIV status.
Moderator:
Eileen McDonald, MS

10:30 AM
Taking It to the Pews: Developing and implementing a church-based HIV education and prevention tool kit
Jannette Berkley-Patton, PhD, Carole Bowe Thompson, BS, Eric D. Williams, BA, Sandy Wainright, Andrea D. Bradley-Ewing, MPA, MA, Golden Davis, David Martinez, BA and Sherry Taylor, BA
     
10:45 AM
Alcohol use as a moderator of HIV prevention intervention efficacy in an African American adolescent female sample
Jessica Sales, PhD, Ralph DiClemente, PhD, Gina M. Wingood, ScD MPH, Eve Rose, MSPH, Jennifer Monahan, PhD, Jennifer A. Samp, PhD and Colleen P. Crittenden Murray, DrPH
     
11:00 AM
HIV knowledge, adaptive and maladaptive cognitions in relation to the threat of HIV infection among African American females of childbearing age
Jebose O. Okwumabua, PhD, Sharron Moore-Edwards, BS and Seok P. Wong, PhD
11:15 AM
Crossroads of STI/HIV and Reproductive Health Education: Terminating the STI/HIV transmission chain in a resource poor setting
Adejuwonlo Ekundayo, MB,CHB, Olugbemiga Tanilepada Ekundayo, MD, MPH, DrPH, Mario J. Azevedo, PhD, Joyce Buckner-Brown, PhD, MHS, RRT, Gwendolyn Prater, PhD and Sridevi Alla, MBBS
     
11:30 AM
Parity, inclusion, and representation: Lessons from a decade of HIV prevention community planning for the movement to eliminate health disparities
Kathleen M. Roe, DrPH, MPH, Henry Montes, MPH and Kevin T. Roe, MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, School Health Education and Services

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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