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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Food is medicine and prevention: Health outcomes and cost-savings associated with food and nutrition services for PLWHA

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Describe how food insecurity effects HIV care.
Moderator:
Angela A. Aidala, PhD

12:30pm
Food as medicine: Medical nutrition therapy can improve health outcomes for people with critical and chronic disease   
Daniel Cohn, Bachelor’s degree in Health, Behavior & Society and David Waters, MA
     
12:45pm
Food as medicine: Reducing health care costs with comprehensive medical nutrition therapy   
Jill Gurvey, MPH and Susan Daugherty, RD, LDN
1:00pm
Food insecurity is associated with HIV serostatus among low income adults in the national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES) (1999-2008)   
Kartika Palar, PhD, Barbara A. Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD and Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH
     
1:15pm
Medical care and health outcomes of food and nutrition services for persons living with HIV/AIDS: Implications for maintenance in care and cost savings   
Angela A. Aidala, PhD, Maiko Yomogida, Yoav Vardy and Karen Pearl, MA
     
1:30pm
Impact of food insecurity on survival among HIV-positive injection drug users receiving antiretroviral therapy in a Canadian cohort   
Aranka Anema, Dr., Keith Chan, Yalin Chen, Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, Julio Montaner, Dr. and Robert Hogg, Dr.
     
  

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

Organized by: HIV/AIDS
Endorsed by: Medical Care

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

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