Black AIDS Institute Presentations at USCA 2013
Join us at the following workshops next week in New Orleans at the U.S. Conference on AIDS. You can find session descriptions and relevant logistical information below.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Session 1 Workshops: 10:30 am – Noon
Black AIDS Institute Partner Workshop – "Evaluating Knowledge and Attitudes of the HIV/AIDS Workforce: Survey Results from the 2012 United States Conference on AIDS and 12 Major Cities Across the US
Presenters: Raniyah Copeland, MPH, Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Leisha McKinley-Beach, Black AIDS Institute, Atlanta GA
Location: Imperial 9, Level 4
This will be an interactive session during which participants will engage in discussions about potential gaps in HIV/AIDS basic science and treatment knowledge, and attitudes toward biomedical interventions, among HIV/AIDS workers in the US. Evaluating the knowledge and attitudes of HIV/AIDS workers is critical to address educational and/or training gaps to help end the epidemic. During the 2012 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), a survey that explored these topics was completed by 643 attendees who self-identified as members of the US HIV/AIDS workforce on behalf of AIDS service organizations (ASOs), health departments, or other community-based organizations (CBOs). The survey was also launched in 12 major cities across the US during the spring of 2013 and the survey was completed by an additional 1,523 respondents. The findings of the survey will be presented along with its implications with regard to HIV/AIDS workers in the U.S.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Seminars: 8:30 am – 11:30 am
· Intrusion or Responsibility: Should Your Local Health Department Use Surveillance Data for HIV Care Linkage and Retention?
Presenters: Leisha McKinley-Beach, Black AIDS Institute, Atlanta, GA; David Evans, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA; Jane Herwehe, Louisiana Department of Health, New Orleans, LA
Location: Empire A, Level 2
In November 2012, Project Inform convened a think tank to deal with one of the most timely issues confronting HIV advocates—whether, when and how public health departments may used collected laboratory data submitted to actively seek out people with HIV who have been lost to care and bring them back into care. Approaches for this active use of data range from contact with health care providers to the use of disease intervention specialists to track people down in their homes. These approaches come with the potential for risks of breach of privacy and the increase of stigma and discrimination.
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.