Session: Role of Ethnicity, Gender, and Development in Drug Use, Violence, and HIV Risk


Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

3350.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Oral

Role of Ethnicity, Gender, and Development in Drug Use, Violence, and HIV Risk

Learning Objectives: See individual abstracts

Organizer(s):

Wendy K.K. Lam, PhD

Moderator(s):

Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD

4:30 PM

*SESSION ABSTRACT* Role of ethnicity, gender, and development in drug use, violence, and HIV risk
Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD

4:31 PM

“La Droga No Tiene Fin”: Increasing crack use among female sex workers

Michele G. Shedlin, PhD, Rita Arauz, MA, MPH, Pascual Ortells, BS, Mariana Aburto, MPH, Danilo Norori, Sherry Deren, PhD

4:48 PM

Challenges of sustaining long-term behavior change in crack use and sexual risk among southern African-American women

Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD, Wendy K.K. Lam, PhD, Rhonda Karg, PhD, William A. Zule, DrPH, Kara S. Riehman, PhD, Rachel M. Ellerson, BS

5:06 PM

Adolescent children of African-American crack-using mothers: Gender differences in youth risk and maternal child communications

Wendy K.K. Lam, PhD, Rachel M. Ellerson, BS, William A. Zule, DrPH, Shelley Francis, MPH, Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD

5:24 PM

Gender differences in social norms among Latino adolescents at-risk for HIV

Sally J. Stevens, PhD, Bridget S. Ruiz, BA; LISAC, Christine B. Wiggs, MPH, Kristina Luther, BA

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

Organized by:

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Endorsed by:

APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus

CE Credits:

CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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