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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
3253.0: Monday, November 11, 2002 - 2:30 PM
Abstract #42707
Transgender/Transsexual Health Activists Discuss the Future
Learning Objectives: This is a part of the "TransHealth Roundtable" group being coordinated by Ben Singer.
Jordan Asia Blaza, Panel Member
Issues/perspective to present
1. The importance of providing clients information on all their options regarding Transgender Health instead of giving them directives. (What type of messages are we sending our clients?)
2. Addressing the client’s life issues which outweigh their need for HIV/AIDS prevention services.
3. Providing culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS prevention services to Transgender People of Color.
Jordan Asia Blaza is the Individual Level Intervention Lead at Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT). She has been working professionally in HIV/AIDS field starting as a volunteer in 1997, Transgender Program Coordinator in 1998, and the Outreach Intervention Lead in 200- In January 2001 she was a member of the 13 member Transgender Forum mandated by the U.S. Surgeon Generals Office through The Leadership Campaign on AIDS which produced the document “Transgender Communities & HIV/AIDS In Communities of Color
Challenges and Recommendations”.
Accomplishments
Certification
-HIV Prevention Counselor Training (HIV Testing) 1997-2002
-Community Health Outreach Worker 1998
-Community Health Outreach Administrator 2002
-What HIV/AIDS Service Providers Need to Know About Substance Abuse 2001
-HIV 101 and the A/PI Community 2001
Presentation and accepted abstracts on various Transgender Issues (specialty on Asian and Pacific Islanders)
-United States Conference on AIDS 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
-National HIV/AIDS Update Conference 1999
-Community Planning Leadership Summit for HIV Prevention 2000
-Transgender Youth Symposium 2000, 2001
-Transgender Sensitivity and Awareness Training (Various)
-University of California, Los Angeles 1998, 1999, 2000
-University of Judaism, Bel Air 1999
-Los Angeles Department of Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1999
-California State University, Los Angeles 2000
-Cedar Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles 2001
-Olive View – UCLA Medical Hospital, Sylmar 2000, 2001
Community Involvement
-LA Unified School District Transgender Students Support Committee, Member 2001 - Present
-Los Angeles Transgender Task Force 1998 - Present
-West Hollywood Transgender Task Force, Member