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

3447.0
Substance use, women, and HIV

Monday, November 4, 2013: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Discuss women's unique vulnerability to HIV. Describe interventions for addressing HIV in women.
Moderator:
Amanda Tanner, PhD, MPH

4:30pm
Coping with a dual diagnosis: Healthcare beliefs and attitudes among ethnic minority HIV-positive female substance abusers with a chronic illness   
Meena Mahadevan, PhD. and Ndidi Amutah, PhD, MPH, CHES
4:45pm
Medical providers on HIV treatment with active drug users: Challenges, benefits, and best practices   
Katie Burk, MPH and Skylar Panuska, LMSW
5:00pm
Women's HIV rates twice as high in young couples in South Africa: Is it gender, drugs or community risks?   
Wendee M. Wechsberg, PhD, MS, Tara Carney, PhD, Tracy Kline, PhD, Jackie Ndirangu, MSC-GH, Nat Rodman, MA, Irene Doherty, Ph.D. MPH and William A. Zule, DrPH
5:15pm
Women's leadership training institute and HIV prevention training institute (WLTI-HIV/AIDS): Empowering women through leadership to prevent HIV   
Nicole Charon-Schmitt, MPH, Rita Nieves, RN, MPH, LCSW, Hortensia Amaro, PhD and Heather L. McCauley, ScD, ScM
5:30pm
Female primary relationship partners and HIV risk among drug-using wswm of color   
Sel J. Hwahng, PhD and Danielle Ompad, PhD

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

Organized by: HIV/AIDS
Endorsed by: Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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