2010 CAPS HIV Prevention Conference

Keynote speakers

• Greg Millett, MPH: HIV Prevention and Programs in Disproportionately Impacted Communities—Is There a Need for Course Correction?
• Caroline Ryan, MD, MPH: Update on the U.S. Response to the Global AIDS Pandemic

Workshops

• Track 1: Research to Practice
• Track 2: MSM Across the Globe
• Track 3: Test, Treat and Link to Care
• Track 4: Reducing Disparities

Research to Practice

• Taking DEBIs Out of the Box: Using Capacity Building Assistance to Help CBOs Integrate Additional Social Determinants of Health into Their Prevention Programming - Greg Rebchook, John Hamiga and Scott Tebbetts (CAPS); Alice Gandelman (California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center [PTC])
  • Gandelman: Social Determinants of Health and DEBI Implementation: How CBOs are Responding
  • Taking DEBIs Out of the Box
• Increasing Access to Care: The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health - Jae Sevelius, Luis Gutierrez-Mock, Yavanté Thomas-Guess, Danielle Castro and Jamison Green (CAPS)
• Global Response: Adapting Research to Practice - Michael Reyes (PAETC/CAPS/I-TECH); Janet Myers, Sebastian Kevany and Gertrude Khumalo-Sakutukwa (CAPS); Sarah Gutin (PAETC)
  • Khumalo-Sakutukwa: Project Accept Post Test Support Services (PTSS): Making Psychosocial Support Relevant in Poor Resource Settings
  • Gutin: Adapting a Positive Prevention intervention for use in Mozambique
  • Kevany: International Adaptations in Project Accept
  • Myers: The Eastern Caribbean—Community Access Project

MSM Across the Globe

• Building Sensitivity for Healthcare Providers Working with MSM in South Africa - Tim Vincent and Greg Mehlhaff (California PTC)
• Emerging HIV Epidemics Among MSM in the Developing World: Context and Evidence - Andre Maiorana (CAPS); H. Fisher Raymond (SF DPH)
  • Maiorana: HIV among MSM in Barbados: “Bullers” and “Battybowys,” Context and Evidence
  • Raymond: MSM in China
  • Raymond: Gay and Bisexual Men: Kampala, Uganda

Test, Treat and Link to Care

• Enhancing HIV Testing, Linkage to Care and Partner Services in San Francisco - Kim Koester (CAPS); Katerina Christopoulos (UCSF); Noah Carraher and Teri Dowling (San Francisco Department of Public Health [SF DPH])
  • Koester, Dowling: Enhancing HIV Testing, Linkage to Care and Partner Services in San Francisco
  • Christopoulos: Emergency Department (ED) HIV Testing
• Living with HIV:  Adjustment, Adherence and Beyond - Mallory Johnson, Judy Moskowitz, Adam Carrico, Parya Saberi (CAPS); Larissa Duncan (UCSF); Michael Arnold (SF DPH)
  • Arnold: Support Networks and Attitudes Toward Antiretroviral Use
  • Carrico: Depression, stimulant use, and HIV treatment utilization
  • Duncan: Mindfulness-based stress reduction for HIV treatment side effects: A randomized wait-list controlled trial
  • Johnson: Preliminary results of an HIV treatment side effects intervention trial
  • Moskowitz: The role of positive emotion in coping with HIV
  • Saberi: Associations between quality of sleep and antiretroviral adherence
• Gauging the Impact of the HIV-related Budget Cuts on the Provision of Services in 3 Counties in California - Emily Arnold, Gabriel Galindo, Stuart Gaffney, Wayne Steward and Steve Morin (CAPS)

Reducing Disparities

• Building on Communities of Support: Working with African American Men Who Have Sex with Men to Strengthen HIV Prevention within Community Structures - Susan Kegeles, Emily Arnold and David Williams (CAPS)
  • Kegeles: United Black Ellument (U-BE)
  • Arnold, Williams: Building More Supportive Communities from the Ground Up Houses, Balls, and HIV Prevention
• Incarceration and Health Disparities: Possible Connections, Emerging Questions - Megan Comfort, Malcolm Hoover, Jackie Ramos, Timoteo Rodriguez, Claudia Smith and Bill Stewart (CAPS)
• Decreases in Community Viral Load Are Accompanied by Reductions in HIV Infection in San Francisco - Moupali Das (SF DPH)

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Last modified: November 2, 2012