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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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5156.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
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| In this session, the learner will hear about sexually transmitted disease investigations in high school as well as high morbidity areas. The learner will also hear about syphilis outbreak investigations of both injecting and non-injecting drug users. These topics will include recruitment issues as well as the association between drug use and sexual risk behaviors. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) will be able to: 1. Describe the epidemiology of a syphilis outbreak in Palm Springs, CA 2. Understand two different sampling strategies, respondent driven and targeted sampling, for recruiting injecting drug users 3. Understand the associations between non-injection and injection drug use and sexual risk behavior 4. Describe the relationship between testing positive for CT and/or GC in a high school screening and having a prior positive reported test 5. Identify risk factors associated with STD infection in a high morbidity area. | |||
| Peter Thomas | |||
Outbreak of syphilis among men who have sex with men: Palm Springs, California 2000-2004 ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Wendy N. Betancourt, MPH, Faith Davis-Bolton, CHES, Barbara Cole, RN, PHN, MSN, Sarah Mack, MPH | |||
| HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Injecting Drug Users Abu S. Abdul-Quader, PhD, Stephanie Tortu, PhD, Jan Risser, PhD, Sha Juan Colbert, MPH, Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD, Amy Lansky, MPH, PhD | |||
| Non-injection drug use (NIDU) predicts sexual risk for HIV Karyn K. Heavner, MSPH, Haven B. Battles, PhD, James Tesoriero, PhD, Shu-Yin John Leung, MA, Chris Nemeth, MA, Guthrie Birkhead, MD, MPH | |||
| Association between history of a previously reported STD and having a positive test during a high school screening program: A case-control analysis Greta L. Anschuetz, MPH, Mindy J. Perilla, MPH, C. Victor Spain, DVM, PhD, Melinda Salmon | |||
| Analysis of Risk Assessment Survey and STD surveillance data: Prevention failure among clients at highest risk Anne F. McIntyre, MPH, Gregory Huhn, MD, MPHTM, Jennifer M. Broad, MPH, Steve W. Holmes, Alice Studzinski, Charlie Rabins, MPH, Mark S. Dworkin, MD, MPH&TM | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
| Endorsed by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA