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

Skills Building Workshops Tuesday July 9

Training the Facilitators of Peer Support Groups:
SB321 "Sharing and Listening, a Way to Heal"
Venue: Room 2C
Time: 14:3o0- 17:3o0
Language: Spanish
Target Audience: People (HIV+, HIV-) working in HIV desiring
to initiate peer support groups, health care
professionals, community workers,
volunteers
The aim of this workshop is to learn about the dynamics of
peer support groups: what they are, how they function, what
they offer to the HIV community. The foundations of a support
group are based on "active listening" that takes place in a safe
and confidential space. The group work strategy that will be
explored in the workshop can be used to confront pain, anger,
fear and loss.
Facilitators: J Doncel, M Garcia, P Zubiaga, B de Haro Cabanes,
Fundacidn Volver a Casa, Spain
Donor AIDS Medicines to Developing Nations
SB331 in the Absence of the Global Fund
Venue: Room 2D
Time: 14:3o - 17:3o0
Language: English
Target Audience: AIDS service providers, medical providers,
PLWHAs and AIDS-affected communities
This workshop will be hands-on, exploring access to treatment,
methods for donating medicines between "first" and "third"
world nations and expanding access and choice in the absence
of a fully implemented, comprehensive Global Fund.
Participants will explore building strategic partnerships
between Recipient and Donor nations and organizations in
order to maximize the availability of AIDS treatments.
Facilitators:]J Landau, United States, Track A Committee
member and AIDS Treatment Access, United States; J Perez,
Cuba; ]JAquais, Aid for AIDS; M Katana, NGENT+/GNP+;
Uganda; L Francis, The Centre, Zimbabwe; H Binswanger,
AIDSETI, United States; JPedraza, UN/GNP+, United States;
A Mandy-Laveuze, Ministry of Health, France
Supporting Disclosure of HIV Status:
SB34 IA Skills-Based Workshop for Providers
Venue: Room 2E
Time: 14:3o - 17:3o0
Language: English
Target Audience: Healthcare providers, counselors,
case managers, physicians, nurses,
health educators, program administrators,
prevention workers
This interactive workshop will address several issues affecting
client HIV status disclosure, including whom clients choose to
disclose to and why, psychosocial factors affecting disclosure
decisions, and how these decisions are influenced by where
clients are in the course of their infection. Participants will
follow a 5-step process to assist clients in exploring issues
affecting disclosure, make a specific plan of action for
disclosing to specific persons, and have an opportunity to
discuss past client experiences. Strategies will be presented to
address risk reduction approaches for clients who choose not
to disclose to sexual or needle-sharing partners.
Facilitators: A Gandelman, University of California, Berkeley;
G Mehlhaff, United States

HIV/AIDS and Other STDs: How to Break This
Partnership Using the Syndromic Management
SB351Strategy to Diagnose and Treat
Venue: Room 5:5A
Time: 14:3o0- 17:3o
Language: Spanish
Target Audience: Managers and health professionals who
participate in control strategies on
STI/HIV/AIDS, health professionals working
in STI/HIV/AIDS settings
This workshop is about the strategy of Syndromic Management
to diagnose and treat STIs. Participants will learn how to
develop actions on STI control aimed at impacting the AIDS
epidemic in their settings. They will be able to use this strategy
as a tool for the diagnosis and treatment of these infections.
Participants will learn to develop an information system on
STIs appropriate to their reality and economic resources.
Facilitators: G Silva, E Campos, CE Santos, C Ferreira,
Ministry of Health, Brazil
lol Ways to Promote Condoms: Creative Marketing
SB36 of Condom Use
Venue: Room 5:5B
Time: 14:30 - 17:30
Language: English
Target Audience: Field workers - particularly in prevention
programs, trainers, administrators in
program management
The workshop will discuss ways to catch people's attention
and engage conversation around condom use and safer sex
practice. Culturally sensitive issues as well as media coverage
on condom promotion will be explored. During the workshop,
participants will share their experience in condom promotion
and develop their creativity on how to market condoms in their
own country.
Facilitators: L Wong, C C Lau, AIDS Concern, Hong Kong

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Telling Your Story - How to Decide:
SSB37 PLWHAs in Education and Advocacy
Venue: Room 5:8
Time: 14:3o - 17:3o
Language: English
Target Audience: People with HIV, educators, advocates,
people working in prevention or support
This interactive workshop intends to increase involvement of
PLWHAs in education, advocacy and hopes to equip people
with HIV to make decisions about whether or not to tell their
stories and what to tell; it offers ideas to develop new and
innovative approaches to HIV+ involvement in programming,
provides an opportunity for learning through peer mentoring,
and will help overcome many barriers to HIV involvement.
Facilitators: S Margolese, Canadian Treatment Action Council,
Canada; A Luna, Mexican Network of People living with
HIV/AIDS, Mexico

XIV International AIDS Conference BARCELONA - JULY 7-12