4391.0 HIV prevention and treatment strategies among high-risk women

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Oral
The impact of certain health behaviors and practice as it relates to HIV prevention and treatment are well known in men, but less studied among women. Public health strategies that overlook underlying gender, power, and economic inequalities can serve as key drivers for HIV transmission. This oral session will explore the impact of specific sexual behaviors, intimate partner violence, screening policies, and unmet subsistence needs on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment among women. Global empowerment strategies in vulnerable populations, the potential impact on increased surveillance in older women on mortality, and economic justice policies on urban poor women will be discussed.
Session Objectives: 1. Compare empowerment strategies in the United States and internationally as it relates to HIV prevention among vulnerable populations. 2. Assess how exclusive attention to domestic violence may not be appropriate to HIV prevention and treatment efforts in urban poor women. 3. Identify how increased HIV testing in post-reproductive women may impact the disproportionate burden of late diagnosed HIV infection
Moderator:
Kim Nichols Dauner, MPH, PhD

4:30pm
Receptive anal sex is associated with HIV seropositivity in women
Grace L. Reynolds, DPA, Dennis G. Fisher, PhD and Lucy Napper, PhD
4:42pm
A global comparative study on empowering women: Key strategy for preventing HIV among most at risk populations
Theresa Hwang, MPA and Nadia Shadravan
     
4:54pm
Uptake of HIV testing during post-reproductive years among midlife women (50-64 years old): An analysis of 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey data from six Deep South states (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina)
Lisa Wigfall, PhD, MA, BSMT (ASCP), Donna L. Richter, EdD,FAAHB, Myriam E. Torres, PhD, MSPH, Lucy Annang, PhD, MPH, Lisa L. Lindley, DrPH, MPH, CHES, Kamala Swayampakala, MSPH, Saundra Glover, MBA, PhD and Wayne A. Duffus, MD, PhD
     
5:06pm
Violence against HIV-Positive urban poor women is most commonly perpetrated by persons who are not primary partners
Elise D. Riley, PhD, Jennifer Cohen, MPA, Farzaneh Pour Ansari, MS, Kara Marson, BA and Martha Shumway, PhD
5:18pm
Why is the HIV prevalence rate for black women 18 times greater than the rate for white women?
Gilbert R. Lavoie, MD, MPH
        

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Organized by: Women's Caucus
Endorsed by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights, HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

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

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