141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Innovative approaches to HIV treatment: Successes and challenges

Monday, November 4, 2013: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Describe different intervention approaches that can improve treatment adherence and quality of life for individuals living with HIV.
Moderator:
Jennifer Kibicho, PhD

10:30am
Ryan white MAI: Using intense, one-on-one health education and coaching to facilitate HIV care utilization   
Leonard Bryson, MSW
     
10:45am
Tough pill to swallow: Voices of perinatally HIV-infected youth   
Georgina Silva-Suarez, MPHE, Silvia Rabionet, EdD, Irma Febo, MD, Elena Bastida, PhD and Carmen Zorrilla, MD
     
11:00am
Assessment of factors associated with adherence of HAART among chronic care patients in dessie hospital   
Aklilu Abera, BSc.
11:15am
Reaching families in a pediatric hospital; Success in HIV treatment compliance and outreach   
Lea Dooley, MPH, MCHES
     
11:30am
Improving ARV adherence to reducing mortality among people living with HIV AIDS (PLWH) in the bolgatanga municipality of northern Ghana   
John Koku Awoonor-Williams, MD, MPH, MPA, Samuel Angyogdem, MPH and Francis Yeji, Msc
     

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

Organized by: HIV/AIDS
Endorsed by: Epidemiology, Medical Care, Community Health Workers

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

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