Black AIDS Institute Presentations at USCA 2013
There's still time to participate in one of the Black Treatment Advocate Network seminars at the U.S. Conference on AIDS. Remember to participate in the Roadmap Challenge as well. We look forward to seeing you in the workshops below! Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Seminars: 8:30 am – 11:30 am
Black AIDS Institute Partner Seminar – Retooling Bootcamp: Getting ready for an Affordable Care Act and Biomedical Intervention World
Presenter: Raniyah Copeland, MPH, Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Leisha McKinley-Beach, Black AIDS Institute, Atlanta, GA
Location: Empire D, Level 2
This seminar will provide intensive orientation, education, action-oriented tools and training for AIDS organizations to re-tool to be more responsive in this biomedical intervention and affordable care act landscape. Participants will assess their organizations readiness related to the Affordable Care Act, biomedical interventions, and partnerships through a unique tool developed by the Black AIDS Institute. Seminar participants will get receive action-oriented tools to respond to implementation challenges and concerns in local community to ensure that communities are able to benefit from new HIV advances and policies.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Seminars: 8:30 am – 11:30 am
The Treatment Cascade: Women of Color & the Role of Women's Health Centers
Presenters: Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, NY; Leisha McKinley Beach-Black AIDS Institute, Dazon Dixon Diallo-Sister Love, Ayesha McAdams Kaiser Family Foundation, Stephanie Brown-Empowered Campaign, Shamara Pellavi—Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Location: Bolden 4, Level 2
With one in three women receiving an HIV test at a women's health center like Planned Parenthood, women's health centers are often gateways for further health care. Women's health centers provide not only HIV screening as part of routine care, but also offer other services addressing a host of issues that can increase the risk of HIV transmission including counseling for intimate partner violence, sexuality education, and family planning counseling. Attendees audience will learn about best practices from women's health centers employing behavioral and biomedical interventions including HIV and other STI testing, prevention programming for at risk populations, antiretroviral therapy, access to condoms and prophylactics, and among other things, screenings and referrals for treatment for the range of sexually transmitted diseases. To address the treatment cascade, this workshop will also focus on the critical role of testing to inform women and young people of their status and link them to treatment. This workshop will also discuss the particularly devastating impact of HIV on women of color, including the role social determinants play in accessing prevention and care. Finally, the audience will learn from Community Based Organizations (CBO) working with women of color and how partnerships with women's' health centers can increase access to HIV screening and further care.