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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Politics and Science of HIV Prevention: Moving Forward Constructively
3394.0: Monday, December 12, 2005: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM
Oral
Politics and Science of HIV Prevention: Moving Forward Constructively
There has been much controversy about the intrusion of ideology and politics into the science of HIV prevention in the last several years. Our goal in this session is to present some of the relevant issues in this debate, and move forward toward suggesting how we can work around the politics to do the best HIV prevention science possible. The first paper discusses the broad issues; the second paper discusses an important policy debate related directly to the implementation of science (who should HIV prevention interventionists be); the third paper focuses on one of the most controversial issues where politics, religion, and ideology have intruded the most: abstinence vs. comprehensive sex education.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to: 1) Describe current threats to the peer review process and potential options for researchers to protect their research. 2) Identify areas and modes of research to test controversial health issues.
Moderator(s):Daniel Gentry, PhD, MHA
8:30 PMValues trump data: The Bush administration's approach to (sexual) science  [ Recorded presentation ]
John DeLamater, PhD
8:50 PMConceptualizing the influence of social agents of behavior change: Effectiveness of different HIV-prevention interventionists for different genders, ethnicities, ages, and behaviorally-defined groups as a matter of policy  [ Recorded presentation ]
Dolores Albarracin, PhD, Marta R. Durantini, PhD, Allison N. Earl, MA
9:10 PMWhy haven't abstinence programs worked?
Rick S. Zimmerman, PhD, Pamela K. Cupp, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:HIV/AIDS
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA