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Session: HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug-Using Communities
3037.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
HIV/AIDS and Injection Drug-Using Communities
Continued HIV incidence among injection drug users is a priority issue for the public health system. This session will provide an update on critical research conducted with injection drug users and describe the efficacy of innovative interventions to reduce HIV incidence among this community.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1. Describe emerging trends that continue to facilitate HIV incidence among injection drug users in the U.S. and abroad. 2. Describe 3 strategies for effectively engaging this community in HIV-prevention interventions. 3. Describe 3 common elements to interventions that have demonstrated efficacy with regard to HIV-related behavioral change among injection drug users.
Moderator(s):Joerg Klewer, MD PhD
8:30 AMHigher HIV prevalence among ethnic minority IDUs: North America, Asia, Europe  [ Recorded presentation ]
Don C. Des Jarlais, PhD, Theresa Perlis, PhD, Holly Hagan, PhD, Kamyar Arasteh, PhD, Theodore M. Hammett, PhD, Wei Liu, MD, Ly K. Van, MD, Anneli Uuskula, Anna Lyubenova, Samuel R. Friedman, PhD
8:45 AMSex trading and HIV risk among men in methadone maintenance treatment  [ Recorded presentation ]
E. Roberto Orellana, MSW, MPH, Nabila El-Bassel, DSW, Louisa Gilbert, MS
9:00 AMIllinois pharmacist survey on non-prescription syringe sales  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stacey L. Hoferka, MPH, Susan Bailey, Lawrence J. Ouellet, PhD. Awards: Excellence in Abstract Submission among Student APHA Members and Winner of the HIV/AIDS Section Student Scholarship - Recipient
9:15 AMGreater drug injecting HIV infection risks in a city where syringe exchange and pharmacy syringe distribution are illegal
Alan Neaigus, PhD, Mingfang Zhao, MD, MPH, V. Anna Gyarmathy, PhD, Linda Cisek, MS, Samuel R. Friedman, PhD, Robert C. Baxter
9:30 AMIDU evacuation and risk behavior patterns post hurricane Katrina  [ Recorded presentation ]
Edward Morse, PhD, Patricia M. Morse, PhD, Stan Hoogerwerf, MA, William T. Robinson, PhD, Samuel Burgess, MA, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:HIV/AIDS
Endorsed by:Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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