Session: Service and Promotion of Healthy Behaviors and Lifestyles for Community Members with HIV/AIDS, TB and Substance Abusers
3265.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Service and Promotion of Healthy Behaviors and Lifestyles for Community Members with HIV/AIDS, TB and Substance Abusers
Abstracts will discuss how injection drug users benefited from integrated hepatitis services. A support network for inner city youths with HIV/AIDS with be discussed as well as prevention programs targeting minority populations. There will also be discussion counseling and testing programs for men having sex with men and minorities.
Learning Objectives: Participants will learn about: 1)the role that local policy and legislation may play in HIV control; 2)understand the importance of social support networks for people living with HIV/AIDS; and 3)offering viral hepatitis services at an STD clinic.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Michael K. Dexter
2:30 PMAn art based program to increase the social support network of inner city youths with HIV
Cassandra okechukwu, MSN, MPH, Nina Langlie, BA
2:42 PMEvaluation of high-risk HIV counseling and testing: Comparing outcomes in two populations
Thomas H. Riess, MPH, Diane Binson, PhD, Moher Downing, MA, Sherry Fung, Olga Grinstead, PhD, MPH, Torsten B Neilands, PhD, Charles A Pearson, MA, Bob Siedle-Khan, MA, Karen Vernon, William J. Woods, PhD
2:54 PMInjection drug users benefit from integrated hepatitis services at a sexually transmitted disease clinic
Robin R Hennessy, Karen Schlanger, MPH, Isaac Weisfuse, MD, MPH
3:06 PMSaving Ourselves: A community-based coalition to promote HIV/substance abuse prevention in Upstate New York
Shadi S Saleh, PhD, Vanessa Johnson, JD
3:18 PMTackling a policy polemic: A local health department's approach to standardizing HIV partner notification
Randy Alison Aussenberg, MA, Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA