247890 Title: Get Turned on To It: How DC's Doin' the Female Condom

Monday, October 31, 2011

Tinselyn Simms-Hall, MS , Community Based Organization, The Women's Collective, Washington, DC
In Washington, DC, a city with an HIV prevalence rate of 3%, women accounted for 30% of reported HIV/AIDS cases. Data from the last National HIV Behavioral Surveillance conducted among heterosexuals in DC showed that while 70% of participants reported being in a ‘committed' relationship, 45% reported having sex outside that relationship and more than 70% did not use condoms. 60% of the participants in this study were women. Funded by the MAC AIDS Fund, the Washington AIDS Partnership and the HIV/AIDS Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Administration (HAHSTA) in collaboration with five community based organizations set out to expand access to FC2 in DC. Tooled with a re-designed female condom (FC2); a DC's Doin' It FC2 social marketing campaign; a newly designed brochure with culturally competent illustrations of how to use the FC2 for vaginal and anal sex; and creative, peer based strategies to educate the community; the FC2 community partners successfully distributed 189,000 FC2's, and increased FC2 uptake in the community through targeted outreach and skills building workshops for women, girls and their partners.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related education
Public health or related public policy
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this presentation participants will be able to list at least three components of an effective FC2 program integration. By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to demonstrate how to use the FC2. By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe two pleasurable benefits of the FC2 for women.

Keywords: Women and HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: This presentation includes discussion and display of tools that illustrate how to use the FC2 for anal intercourse. This use of the FC2 is an unlabeled use of the product, however, because evidence shows women in the target audience reproting unprotected

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I oversaw the implementation of the FC2 initiative at The Women's Collective from February 2010 to January 2011. Implementation of this program included evaluation and monitoring, reporting, development of grant applications, collaboration with all program partners, education, outreach and supervision of all staff implementing the program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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