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CONCURRENT SESSION 5
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MARCH 6, 2004 |
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS---Session 5 |
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TRACK
A: Prevention and Behavioral Change
5A. Social Marketing and Media
INTERCONTINENTAL: La Niña
PRESENTERS
"HIV/AIDS from News Story to Action"
Jones P. Madeira, Trinidad and Tobago
"'What Happened to the Gang': Evaluation of a Video for the Prevention of STD and HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rican Adolescents"
Dennise Fonseca Lago, Puerto Rico
"Improving Public Health in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Through Health Journalism"
Jean-Claude Louis, Haiti
Moderators
Doris Pantaleón, Dominican Republic
Peter Velasco, United States
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TRACK
B: Treatment, Care, and Support
5B. Opportunistic Infections and HIV/AIDS
RENAISSANCE: Anacaona A/B
PRESENTERS
"Human Retrovirus Research Center: Trends in the Clinical and Immunologic Features of HIV Infection in
Bayamón, Puerto Rico"
Robert Hunter, Puerto Rico
"Risk Factors for Death After ART Initiation in Poor Setting Countries"
Paul Denis Leger, Haiti
"Efficacy and Tolerance of Cotrimoxazole as a First Line Treatment of Toxoplasmic Encephalitis: An Open Label Prospective Study in Martinique"
Sylvie Abel, Martinique
Moderators
Santiago Collado-Chastel, Dominican Republic
Patrice Severe, Haiti
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TRACK
D: Critical Issues in Drug Resistance and Vaccine Research
5D. Virologic Epidemiology and Drug Resistance Surveillance
MELIÁ: Constanza
PRESENTERS
"Monitoring of HIV and HCV Genetic Diversity: Proposal for a Caribbean Surveillance Network"
Raymond Cesaire, Martinique
"Development of a Database for Caribbean HIV Molecular Diversity and Its Relevance to HIV Vaccines and Therapy"
Farley Cleghorn, United States
"Phylogeny of the HIV-1: Analysis of Cuban Epidemiological Transmission Chains"
Sonia Resik, Cuba
Moderators
Yasuhiro Yamamura, Puerto Rico
Jorge Santana, Puerto Rico
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TRACK
E: Stigma and Discrimination
5E. PLWHA Issues I
INTERCONTINENTAL: La Santa María/La Pinta
PRESENTER
"Haiti: Five Years' Experiences of
GIPA: Moving from Denial to Hope"
Marie Zevallos, Haiti
PANEL
Lissette Mendoza, Dominican Republic
Suzette Moses-Burton, Netherlands Antilles
Ainsley Reid, Jamaica
Ethel Pengel, Suriname
Evelyn Rivera, Puerto Rico
Esther Boucicaut Stanislas, Haiti
Moderators
Stewart Smith, Trinidad and Tobago
Marija Miric, Dominican Republic
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TRACK
F: Vulnerable Populations and HIV/AIDS
5F1. Vulnerability of Youth and Adolescents II
MELIÁ: Samaná/Bonanza
PRESENTERS
"The Vulnerability of Street Children to Sexually Transmitted Diseases"
Rose Verdier, Haiti
"Sociodemographic, Risk Behavior and Substance Use Profile Among Early vs. Non-Early HIV Infected Puerto Rican Patients"
Diana Fernández-Santos, Puerto Rico
"FOSREF's Experience in HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs for Youth and Adolescents"
Anick Supplice, Haiti
Moderators
Nicola Taylor, CAREC/PAHO/WHO
Irma Febo, Puerto Rico
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F: Vulnerable Populations and HIV/AIDS
5F2. Commercial Sex Workers
RENAISSANCE: Anacaona C
PRESENTERS
"Successful Prevention Practices and STD/HIV/AIDS Control Within the Sex Industry"
Francisca del Carmen Ferreira Genao, Dominican Republic
"Sex Workers Are Human Beings with Human Rights: Behaviors, Practices, and Conditions of Commercial Sex Workers in Suriname"
Juanita Altenberg, Suriname
"FOSREF's Experience with Peer Commercial Sex Workers, as a Best Practice in Behavioral Change Programs for HIV/AIDS Prevention for Sex Workers"
Fritz Moise, Haiti
Moderators
Harry Theodore, Haiti
Luis Moreno Montalvo, Dominican Republic
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