Final Program [International Conference on AIDS (14th: 2002: Barcelona, Spain)]

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SB44 Strategic Planning for Vulnerable Populations
Venue: Room 5:5B
Time: 10:3o0- 13:3o0
Language: French
Target Audience: Public health professionals, community
workers, program managers (especially from
developing countries)
This is an interactive and practical workshop that will look at
how to plan interventions with populations who are vulnerable
to HIV/AIDS. It will focus on the steps of strategic planning
and discuss how to work with populations that include men
who have sex with men, sex workers and drug users -
especially focusing on developing countries and countries
where discrimination, stigma, legal barriers and human rights
create a difficult environment.
Facilitators: K. Morrison, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pdblica;
I] Hernandez, Mexico; K Basha, Senegal; R Macinnis,
United States
Learn (Yes, We Said Learn!) Magic and Participative
Theatre: Interventions with Young People
SB451 in Multicultural Settings
Venue: Room 5:8
Time: o10:30 - 13:3o0
Language: Spanish
Target Audience: Professionals working with young people or
migrants, professionals interested in
communication for behavioral and social
change strategies
During the workshop we will explore interventions based on
interpersonal and communication strategies. Part of the
workshop will be centered on Magic. We will address
interpersonal communication issues through magic effects and
humor - strategies applicable to AIDS IEC programs. The
workshop will also help build participative theatre strategies
that can be useful for developing communication abilities,
analyzing contextual factors affecting AIDS and promoting
debate.
Facilitators: E Bada, A M Ndaiye, Unitat de Malaltias Tropicals,
Importades i Vacunacions Int ACSAR, ICS, Spain
How to Live Longer and Healthier with HIV, Even If
SB461 You Can't Get the Drugs: Nutrition as Therapy
Venue: Room 5:6B
Time: 10o:3o0- 17:3o (A lunch break is scheduled
into the workshop.)
Language: English
Target Audience: Counselors, care givers, health workers,
social workers and PLWHAs
In this workshop participants will learn counseling and
teaching techniques that will enable them to empower PLWHAs
with long-term survival skills that are appropriate, affordable
and locally available. It will provide guidelines on nutrition and
health management and the opportunity to pool experiences
and skills between the participants. Group work will be done
on different topics which include: characteristics and attributes
of HIV; how the immune system works and how to support it;
the allies of HIV and how to avoid them; nutrition as therapy;
alternatives to drugs; disclosure; grief and loss; and the
strengths and weaknesses of support groups.
Facilitators: L Francis, The Center, Zimbabwe

Reducing HIV Risk and Changing Behavior in FieldSB471 Based Settings: Moving beyond Health Education
Venue: Room 5:6A
Time: o10:30 - 17:3o (A lunch break is scheduled
into the workshop.)
Language: English
Target Audience: Community-based outreach workers,
clinic-based health educators, trainers of staff
members, project coordinators, senior program
staff, local health department officials
The focus of this workshop is HIV risk reduction through
behavior change. Participants will be offered a brief overview
of the Transtheoretical model and will be able to discuss the
challenges they encounter in their own outreach experiences.
Participants will learn how to: tailor intervention messages to
the needs of the client; understand the stages-of-changemodel, decisional balance and goal setting strategies;
negotiate client-centered risk reduction goals; understand
what techniques work at different stages. Role-plays will be
used to practice conducting goal-based interventions. By the
end of this workshop participants will understand some of the
behavioral models used to reduce a person's risk and how to
adapt these models to work effectively with their population.
Facilitators: M Buitr6n, Harbor UCLA Research and Education
Institute; ] Rodriguez, CSULB Center for Behavioral Research &
Services, United States
Evaluation, Implementation and Quality Assurance of
HIV Rapid Tests in Resource-Constrained or
SB48 Hard-to-Reach Communities
Venue: Room 2A
Time: 14:3o - 17:3o
Language: English
Target Audience: Laboratory professionals and AIDS program
coordinators using or considering the use of
HIV rapid tests in different settings
The workshop focuses on issues around the use of HIV rapid
tests for blood safety, VCT, PMCT, or other purposes in
resource-constrained countries or hard-to-reach populations.
Participants will discuss opportunities for prevention and
options for revised testing protocols and explore the
implications for changes in national programs and consensusbuilding through the interface of technology with national
policy. The potential use of dried blood spot technology and
methods for quality assurance will also be addressed.
Facilitators: A Demby, T Hearn, M Rayfield, CDC, United States;
S Mboup, Dantec Hospital, Senegal; CH Maurice, Projet
RETRO-CI, C6te d'lvoire; R Needle, CDC, United States; T DiazVargas, CDC, Brazil; F Bastos, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil;
0 Ferreira, Albert Einstein Hospital, United States
Gaining Access to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria: Understanding the
SB491 Coordinated Country Mechanism
Venue: Room 2B
Time: 14:30 - 17:30
Language: Spanish
Target Audience: NGOs, CBOs, Advocates
This workshop will assist non-governmental organizations in
understanding the potential impact, on their work, of the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
and how to use it as a resource. The process to become
involved in the Coordinated Country Mechanism (CCM) will be
examined in detail and the experiences of NGOs will be shared.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for community
based HIV/AIDS organizations to improve their knowledge of
the issues and to identify ways to address those issues.
Facilitators: R Koch, LACCASO, Venezuela
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