The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: J: Social Aspects of Social Diseases (STD's)
4311.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
J: Social Aspects of Social Diseases (STD's)
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to 1)recognize the STD/HIV risk among women in various situations (including those who seek sexual partners on the Internet, street sex workers, IV drug users and impoverished women); 2) to understand existing racial disparities in women's reproductive health; 3)describe women's perceptions of the violent acts perpetrated against them and how their experiences of violence are related to substance use and HIV risk behaviors; and 4), discuss the procedure for examining the prevalence of STDs in street sex workers.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Yan Zhang, MS
4:30 PMA harm reduction approach to helping high-risk women from the Bronx into treatment
Debbie S Indyk, PhD, MS, Danielle R. Strauss, MPH, Carlos E. Allende, MHSA
4:42 PMCan The Internet Facilitate Women's Risk For STD/HIV Infection?
Rachel E. Kachur, MPH, Mary McFarlane, PhD, Sheana Bull, PhD, MPH, Cornelis Rietmeijer, MD, MPH
4:54 PMPrenatal and postpartum HIV counseling and testing of low-income women: Evidence for racial disparities in provider screening
Deborah N. Pearlman, PhD, Abigail R. Averbach, MS, Sally Zierler, DrPh
5:06 PMSexual compulsivity among college women: Implications for sexual health
Sara L. Cole, MA, Michael Reece, PhD, MPH, Brian Dodge, MSc
5:18 PMSexually Transmitted Infections and Treatment Seeking Behaviour: A Study of Female Sex Workers in Kerala, India
Ravi K Verma, PhD, Saritha Nair, Johannes Van Dam
5:30 PMViolence, Substance Use and Abuse, and HIV/AIDS: Epidemics Among Impoverished Women
Suzanne Wenzel, PhD, Joan Tucker, MA, PhD, Marc Elliott, MA, PhD, Katrin Hambarsoomians, MS, Doug Longshore, PhD, Adeline M. Nyamathi, PhD, RN, FAAN, Kathryn Anderson, Judy Perlman, MA, Kirsten Becker, MSPH, Crystal Kolross, Mary Gilbert, JD, MA
Organized by:Women's Caucus
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; HIV/AIDS; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA