3160.0 WE-ACTx in Rwanda: Lessons on HIV and Women's Empowerment

Monday, November 5, 2007: 10:30 AM
Oral
Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx) began working in Rwanda in 2004 to provide HIV care for women who had been raped and infected with HIV during the genocide. Working with over 20 Rwandan community partners and within the Rwandan public health infrastructure, WE-ACTx provides Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), 3 clinic sites, a family program, trauma counseling, prevention of mother to child transmission, and an income generation program. The panel will share experiences concerning family centered care, need for food programs, post traumatic stress, and the specific Rwandan experience with HIV and trauma.
Presider:
Mardge H. Cohen, MD
Panelists:
Mardge H. Cohen, MD , Mary Fabri, PsyD , Henriette Mukanyonga , Anne-christine D'Adesky, MS and Lucy Quacinella, Attorney at Law

10:30 AM
WE-ACTx in Rwanda: Lessons on HIV and women's empowerment
Mardge H. Cohen, MD
        
10:45 AM
Chronic PTSD and HIV in Rwanda
Mary Fabri, PsyD
           
11:00 AM
Children with HIV and their families: Food, medicines, and play
Mardge H. Cohen, MD
              
11:15 AM
Resilient Rwandan women
Henriette Mukanyonga
     
11:30 AM
A Holistic Approach to the Overlapping Epidemics of HIV, Hunger, Gender Inequity and Poverty
Anne-christine D'Adesky, MS
           
11:45 AM
Legal Advocacy to Promote Health Advocacy in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
Lucy Quacinella, Attorney at Law and Megan McLemore, JD, LLM
     

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

Organized by: Socialist Caucus
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus, Public Health Education and Health Promotion, International Health, HIV/AIDS

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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