3401.0 Improving Sexual Health in the U.S

Monday, November 9, 2009: 4:30 PM
Oral
Sexual health issues such as sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, are a persistent issue in the United States. This session highlights student work focused on improving the state of sexual health, particularly for disenfranchised or ignored communities. Topics included HIV interventions for homeless populations, Chlamydia, theoretically driven safer sex research with African Americans, and risk among adult film stars.
Session Objectives: Describe factors associated with less than optimal sexual health in various US populations. Formulate interventions to redress sexual health issues in disenfrancised or ignored populations.
Moderator:
Joshua Rosenberger, MPH

Welcoming Remarks
4:35 PM
How about this angle?: A syndemic view of HIV/STI risk among adult film stars
Candace D. Sibley, BA,CRCS
4:52 PM
Social cognitive theory-based predictors of safer sex among African-American college students
Amar Kanekar, MPH, CHES, CPH, PhD and Manoj Sharma, PhD
  
5:09 PM
Managing chlamydia infections in young men: Findings from a chart review of a public men's clinic serving a low income population in New York City
Emilee J. Pressman, MPH, Heidi E. Jones, MPH, David Bell, MD MPH, Jennifer Kerns, MD, MPH, Stephanie Lykes, MPH, Janet Garth and Carolyn L. Westhoff, MD
  
5:26 PM
Factors Related to Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Reinfection Among STD Clinic Patients
Tanzina Siddique
5:43 PM
Student-led health intervention: Improving the health of homeless living with HIV and AIDS in San Bernardino, CA
Danielle C. Richey, MPH(c) and Silvia M. Trigoso, MPH(c)
  

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

Organized by: APHA-Student Assembly
Endorsed by: HIV/AIDS

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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