4337.1 Crossing Borders Via the Web: The Internet and HIV/AIDS Prevention

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 4:30 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: 1. Describe how an HIV prevention project uses the internet to communicate with low income women.

4:30 PM
A sample virtual hub and internet website designed to ensure the right to access to HIV/AIDS prevention information for women of African descent around the globe—as public health without borders
Barbara Wallace, PhD
4:45 PM
Multi-Disciplinary Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Tuberculosis, and the CO-Infection with HIV/AIDS, in Indigenous Women Populations in Guatemala
Alba Amaya Burns, MD, MSc CTM, Allan Burns, PhD and Steve Dudenhoefer
     
5:00 PM
Creation of the Haitian station on the DivaHealth.org website as a tool to ensure the right to access to health information for young at risk Haitian women: Results of focus groups used to tailor what is available online
Chimene Castor, EdDc
5:15 PM
Transforming beauty shops into internet cafés featuring an HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) prevention website: Results of internet-based feasibility surveys of beauty shop owners and needs assessment of clients
Tonya Samuel, MSPH and Barbara Wallace, PhD
5:30 PM
Creation of the www.SehatWorldwide.org website for sharing resources and tools for peer-led HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Indian Prisons: A model for transcending borders to ensure women's right to health information
Amrita Bahl, MA and Barbara Wallace, PhD

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Organized by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS, Women's Caucus

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