5147.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Oral Session

Variations in HIV and Hepatitis Risk

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
Moderator(s):Tom Stopka, MHS
2:30 PMSESSION ABSTRACT: Variations in HIV and hepatitis risk: Inter- and intra-neighborhood comparisons of contextual risks related to syringe access, use & discard
Tom Stopka, MHS, Merrill Singer, PhD, Robert Heimer, PhD, David Buchanan, PhD, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Wei Teng, PhD, Claudia Santelices, ABD, Mark Kinzly, Susan Shaw
2:31 PMRacial and Ethnic Differences in Patterns of Syringe Access, Use, & Discard
David Buchanan, PhD, Merrill Singer, PhD, Robert Heimer, PhD, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Wei Teng, PhD, Tom Stopka, MHS
2:45 PMIntra-neighborhood variations in syringe access, use, and discard: Can increased legal access decrease the risks community-wide?
Robert Heimer, PhD, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Lauretta E. Grau, PhD, Scott Clair, PhD, Wei Teng, PhD, Tom Stopka, MHS, Patricia A. Marshall, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD, Merrill Singer, PhD
3:00 PMThe interrelationship of syringe source, use and discard among drug injectors
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Robert Heimer, PhD, Tom Stopka, MHS, David Buchanan, PhD, Wei Teng, PhD, Merrill Singer, PhD, Mark Kinzly
3:15 PMPublic health interventionists, successful capitalists, harbingers of risk? Street syringe sellers in Connecticut and Massachusetts
Tom Stopka, MHS, Merrill Singer, PhD, Claudia Santelices, David Buchanan, PhD, Susan Shaw, Wei Teng, PhD, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Robert Heimer, PhD
3:30 PMSocial mapping focus groups: Detailing local structures of syringe access, use, and discard
Mark Kinzly, Lynnea Ladouceur, Tom Stopka, MHS, Kevin Irwin, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Robert Heimer, PhD, David Buchanan, PhD, Merrill Singer, PhD
3:45 PMVariations in Injection Paraphernalia Sharing among Injection Drug Users: Do the Attitudes of Other Injection Drug Users in the Neighborhood Matter?
Wei Teng, PhD, Robert Heimer, PhD, Merrill Singer, PhD, David Buchanan, PhD, Thomas Stopka, MHS
Sponsor:Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; HIV/AIDS
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA