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Dear Friends and Colleagues:

Thank you for joining us for the 2013 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA). We are so excited to be returning to New Orleans this year, a city with which the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has extremely strong ties, forged in part during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

For more than 16 years, USCA has worked to increase the strength and diversity of the community-based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through innovative educational and training sessions, new partnerships, collaboration and networking. As the only comprehensive national HIV/AIDS conference taking place this year, USCA 2013 is an especially critical opportunity for case managers, clinicians, public health workers, advocates and people living with HIV or AIDS to

get the information they need to manage the transitions that will accompany Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation welcome and enrollment.

As we’re in New Orleans, the target population for this year’s conference is the Deep South. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), seven of the ten states with the highest rates of AIDS diagnosis, eight of the ten with the highest rates of HIV infection, and six of the ten with the highest rates of individuals living with HIV are in America’s southern region. Overall, the region accounted for 46 percent of all new HIV infections in 2010. Given the profile of the epidemic in the South, and the region’s resistance to ACA implementation, it is especially critical that we highlight the unique challenges facing those working to combat HIV/AIDS here.

This is a pivotal year for our movement. As we work to advance the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, implement the ACA and maximize the benefits of treatment as prevention, it is critical that all those working to further our efforts to end this epidemic have the training and education they need to effectively navigate our movement’s transformation. We have worked hard to ensure that USCA will provide a forum unlike any other for workers from all fronts of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic—from case managers and physicians, to public health workers and advocates, to people living with HIV or AIDS and policymakers—to build national support networks, exchange the latest information and learn cutting edge tools to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.

The journey toward a world without HIV/AIDS requires the skills, experience and passion that each of us brings to this struggle. On behalf of NMAC and the USCA Host Committee, program partners, co-sponsors and funders, I thank you again for your support and wish you an enriching meeting experience.

Yours in the Struggle,

Paul A. Kawata Executive Director National Minority AIDS Council

Program Partners • The AIDS Institute • AIDS United • AIDS, Medicine and Miracles • American Academy of HIV Medicine • Association of Nurses in AIDS Care • The Balm In Gilead • Black AIDS Institute • Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS • HealthHIV • International AIDS Society • International Association of Providers of AIDS Care • International HIV/AIDS Alliance • LIFEbeat • M•A•C AIDS Fund • The NAMES Project Foundation • National AIDS Housing Coalition • National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors • National Native American AIDS Prevention Center

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Bobby Jindal Kathy H. Kliebert GOVERNOR INTERIM SECRETARY

State o f Lo uis iana

Department of Health and Hospitals Office of the Secretary

September 2013

I am extremely pleased to welcome you to New Orleans for the 2013 United States Conference on AIDS. I commend the National Minority AIDS Council for organizing a stellar event that convenes persons living with HIV, community providers, advocates, clinicians, public health workers and others to strengthen the network of direct service providers, policymakers and all persons affected by HIV.

As many of you know, the southern region of the United States, particularly Louisiana, has been significantly impacted by the AIDS epidemic. In southern states, the highest HIV and AIDS rates are reported amongst African Americans and gay and bisexual men. These alarming numbers only strengthen my commitment to support your efforts that will hopefully end the AIDS epidemic in our lifetime and I commend you for your hard work.

It has been ten years since USCA was held in New Orleans. We are glad you are back and hope you enjoy the many culinary and cultural features of Louisiana during your time here. It is my honor to welcome you to our fine state and I hope you have a meaningful and productive conference.

Sincerely,

Kathy H. Kliebert Interim Secretary

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MITCHELL J. LANDRIEU, MAYOR CITY OF NEW ORLEANS Welcome!

Dear Attendees and Guests of the United States Conference on AIDS,

As Mayor of New Orleans, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our city for the 2013 United States Conference on AIDS. I want to thank you for your commitment to meeting in the Crescent City, where you will experience the warm hospitality and unique culture New Orleans has to offer.

We trust that New Orleans will serve as the perfect backdrop for you to discuss what is needed to increase the strength and diversity of the community- based response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through education, training, new partnerships, collaboration and networking. We hope that through this year’s conference, you are able to discover New Orleans’ progressive health initiatives and its dedication to quality of life.

I know that while you are here, you will take advantage of everything New Orleans has to offer. I also hope that at the end of the day you will take some time to relax and explore New Orleans, dine in our incomparable restaurants, enjoy our great music scene, tour the historic French Quarter, and shop in our antique and specialty shops and boutiques throughout the city.

Again, thank you for choosing New Orleans for this year’s conference. We hope you enjoy your stay and return often to our wonderful city.

Sincerely,

Mitchell J. Landrieu Mayor City of New Orleans

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PROGRAM AGENDA 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (closed during plenary session) Exhibits Open Saturday, September 7 Location: Storyville Hall, Level 3 program & agenda 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Registration 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Location: Celestin Ballroom Foyer, Level 3 Plenary Luncheon: The Engagement Challenge - Step Up and LEad (supported by Gilead Sciences) Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 Sunday, September 8 7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. The Balm In Gilead Morning Praise Party Desserts Served in the Exhibit Hall Coordinated by The Balm in Gilead Location: Exhibit Hall, Storyville Hall, Level 3 Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Poster Session (Desserts Served) 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Empire Ballroom Foyer, Level 2 Registration Location: Celestin Ballroom Foyer, Level 3 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Session 2 Workshops & Roundtables 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Opening Plenary Breakfast: Ending AIDS in the South 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 Session 3 Workshops and Roundtables

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (closed during plenary session) 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Exhibits Open Affinity Sessions Location: Storyville Hall, Level 3

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 10 Session 1 Workshops and Roundtables 7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. The Balm In Gilead Morning Praise Party 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Coordinated by The Balm in Gilead Plenary Session: Federal Perspectives on the Affordable Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Care Act Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Seminars 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Seminars 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Location: Celestin Ballroom Foyer, Level 3 Special Event: Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall Location: Storyville Hall, Level 3 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (closed during plenary session) Exhibits Open Location: Storyville Hall, Level 3 Monday, September 9 7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The Balm In Gilead Morning Praise Party Plenary Luncheon: The Fine Art of Patient Conversations Coordinated by The Balm in Gilead with Their Healthcare Providers - An Inside Look into the Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Importance of Self-Expression (supported by Merck) Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Location: Celestin Ballroom Foyer, Level 3 Desserts Served in the Exhibit Hall Location: Exhibit Hall, Storyville Hall, Level 3 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Seminars Poster Session (Desserts Served) Location: Empire Ballroom Foyer, Level 2

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2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Session 4 Workshops & Roundtables USCA CONFERENCE TRACKS

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Domestic (US)/International Issues Intersection Session 5 Workshops & Roundtables The Domestic/International Issues Intersection track welcomes abstracts on a wide range of HIV/AIDS issues 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. that are relevant to our domestic agenda, but have an Affinity Sessions international component, e.g., prevention, treatment, care and the effects of immigration, migration and health workforce shortages on HIV/AIDS service delivery. Possible Wednesday, September 11 abstract topics include: dealing with stigma, funding, 7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. treatment protocols, orphans and vulnerable children,

The Balm In Gilead Morning Praise Party peer education, palliative care, various prevention & agenda program Coordinated by The Balm in Gilead approaches, HIV vaccine trials, developing international Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 policy and partnering with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), immigration/migration opportunities/challenges, 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. etc. Seminars High Impact Prevention 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The High Impact Prevention track will address innovative Closing Plenary Luncheon: Implementing the Affordable methods and strategies that speak to the various ways Care Act - A Call to Action! that prevention services and programs, especially Location: Empire Ballroom, Level 2 testing and outreach can ultimately end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Abstracts should address HIV prevention issues that community planning members, community- USCA PROGRAM FORMAT based organizations and health departments can use in order to optimize and enhance their prevention program Plenary Sessions efforts. By using combinations of scientifically proven, Plenary sessions are formal, motivational presentations cost-effective, and scalable interventions targeted to on a specific topic held in the host ballroom and usually the right populations in the right geographic areas, feature a guest speaker(s) and a plated breakfast or lunch. this approach promises to increase the impact of HIV prevention efforts – an essential step in achieving the Seminars goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. This approach Seminars are in-depth, three-hour presentations that is designed to maximize the impact of prevention efforts address topics related to the conference tracks and/or for those most vulnerable to HIV infection, including gay topics determined by our sponsors. and bisexual men, communities of color, women, injection drug users, transgendered persons, and youth. The Workshops track seeks interactive and dynamic abstracts that target Workshops are in-depth, one and one-half hour those populations most impacted by HIV. Possible topics presentations on topics directly relevant to one of more of include: HIV testing, biomedical interventions/antiretroviral the conference tracks. therapy, prevention with positives; substance use/abuse treatment; screening for other sexually transmitted Roundtables infections, access to condoms and sterile syringes. Roundtables are one and one-half hour participatory sessions at a table of 10-12 participants concerning a topic Housing relevant to one or more of the conference tracks. The The Housing track brings together a diverse group of roundtable leader facilitates discussion among the session HIV/AIDS housing advocates, consumers, providers attendees. and developers to share what has worked in their communities. Abstracts for this track should be developed Poster Presentations in collaboration with one of the other tracks. Possible Poster presentations are placard-type exhibits, which are topics include national, statewide and local HIV/AIDS often accompanied by handouts and/or other material organizing and policy advocacy; development of regional relevant to one of the tracks. Posters are a great vehicle and local HIV/AIDS housing continuums; housing special for abstracts that are data-driven and those that are displaying the results of a study . Posters will be displayed in the Empire Ballroom Foyer on Level 2. 17 Program & Agenda

populations; and developing, operating and sustaining Services programs. Terrence is your contact for all conference-related program & agenda Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care information and has overall responsibility for the This track explores the opportunities and challenges of conference. linking HIV-positive patients to quality care and primary care. Topics may include screening and counseling, Tara Barnes-Darby, Assistant Director, Conferences and secondary HIV prevention, diagnosing and treating Meeting Services complications of HIV infection, and managing ever changing therapeutic regimens. In addition, management Tara is your contact for all conference-related information, of co-morbidities, such as substance abuse, mental illness particularly questions about sessions, faculty and special and hepatitis C, may be addressed as well. events.

Organization and Change Management Paul Fulton-Woods, Conference Registrar This track seeks advanced-level abstracts that address the needs of organizations that are changing and the Paul is your contact for conference registration and opportunities and challenges in doing so. Possible scholarship issues. Paul will be stationed at the “On-Site topics include, but are not limited to: board leadership, Solutions” booth at conference registration. ED/senior management level leadership, strategic and financial planning, personnel/staff skill sets; organizational management, etc. Alison McKeithen, Conferences and Meeting Services Planner Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral Suppression This track explores the opportunities and challenges of Alison is your contact for seminar, workshop, roundtable, retaining HIV-positive patients in quality care and primary poster and affinity sessions. care ultimately achieving viral suppression. Topics may include treatment health literacy, HIV treatment education and adherence, management of co-morbidities, such as Stefan, Exhibits Coordinator substance abuse, mental illness and hepatitis C. Stefan is your contact for the conference exhibit hall. He Treatment and Research can be reached through the Exhibitor Registration booth The Treatment and Research track seeks abstracts that in the Storyville Exhibit Hall on Level 3. present state-of-the-art treatment advances; HIV Cure research, HIV vaccines and biomedical prevention, treatment controversies and challenges to treatment of Kyle Murphy, Assistant Director of Communications particular relevance to communities of color; identify models of treatment education and overall health literacy Kyle will be handling all media inquiries. He may be and/or adherence, advocacy or intervention that would reached in the Press Office, located in the Strand 2 room be of use in communities of color; and provide updates on Level 2. on the treatment pipeline and recent advances in HIV treatment, HIV co-morbidities, long term and short term side effects, inflammation due to long term infection and GENERAL INFORMATION its impact upon HIV infection within communities of color. Affinity Sessions Affinity sessions are impromptu meetings of conference USCA CONFERENCE PLANNING TEAM attendees who want to discuss a particular subject. To schedule an affinity session and receive a room The 2013 USCA Conference planning team looks forward assignment, visit the Conference Operations Office, to making your participation in USCA a comfortable and located in the Strand 3 Room on Level 2. Announcements rewarding experience. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the planning team in the Conference Operations Office, located in the Strand 3 Room on Level 2.

Terrence Calhoun, Director of Conferences and Meeting

18 Program & Agenda for affinity sessions may be placed on the Affinity Session Session evaluation forms: Return to the session monitor Board located near registration. The affinity session following the presentation. schedule is as follows: Overall evaluations: Return to the overall evaluation boxes Sunday: 5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. located throughout the conference space. Evaluations can Monday: 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. also be turned in at the Registration desk. Tuesday: 6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.

Exhibits Badges The exhibit hall is located in the Storyville Hall on Level 3.. Conference attendees must wear their official conference badge to all educational sessions, seminars, plenary USCA conference partners, government agencies, sessions, special events and the exhibit hall. For your community-based organizations, pharmaceutical safety, do not wear your badge outside of the convention companies and many others will showcase their & agenda program hotel. Security will not allow conference attendees to exhibits, providing valuable information and giveaways. enter plenary sessions or the exhibit hall without a badge. Complimentary desserts will be offered in the exhibit hall A $5.00 fee will be assessed for replacement badges. on select days.

The exhibit hall will be open during the following hours: Conference Operations Office Sunday - Tuesday The Conference Operations Office, located in the Strand 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (closed during plenary sessions) 3 Room on Level 2. Feel free to stop by the office with conference-related questions and concerns during the following times: Medical Service Information For any medical emergency, please call extension 55 Saturday: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (within the hotel). Inform the hotel operator of the nature Sunday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. of the emergency and location. A specific response team Monday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. of hotel managers will immediately respond. In non- Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. emergency situations, the following is a list of nearby Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. medical facilities: Tulane University Hospital and Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue Continuing Education Units New Orleans, LA 70112 General continuing education units (CEUs) will be (504) 588-5263 available for conference attendees. Additionally, USCA Emergency Room is a provider of Category I continuing education contact (504) 588-4711 hours for certified health education specialists. Please visit the Continuing Education Desk, located at conference Pharmacy Information registration, for additional information. CVS Pharmacy (504) 232-8101 Walgreens Pharmacy (504) 237-7660

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We use Scantron forms for our evaluation activities. Please General Assistance: For general medical assistance during make sure to place an “X” in the corresponding square. conference hours, visit the PWA lounge (location will be announced on-site)

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No-Smoking Policy For the health and comfort of conference participants, program & agenda smoking is not permitted in any of the conference areas. Thank you for your consideration and cooperation.

Press Room Media Kits and badges may be obtained in the Press Room located in the Strand 2 Room on Level 2, during the following hours:

Saturday: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Sunday – Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

PWA Respite Lounge The PWA Respite Lounge will be staffed by volunteers from the Host Committee and on-call health providers. The lounge will be open during the following days and times (location will be announced on-site):

Saturday: 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Sunday – Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. – 12 noon

Registration Hours All attendees must register for the conference. The registration desk is located in the Celestin Ballroom Foyer on Level 3 and is open during the following hours:

Saturday: 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Sign Language Interpreters Sign language interpreters are available upon request. This service may be requested through the Conference Operations Office, located in the Strand 3 Room on Level 2.

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SESSIONS-AT-A-GLANCE AIDS 2012: The Latino Experience (Session ID: 779) Location: Bolden 5, Level 2 8:30 am – 10:00 am Opening Plenary Breakfast: Ending AIDS in the South Eating Healthy to Stay Healthy: Using HIV Evidence- (Session ID: 901) Based Nutrition Practice Guideline (Session ID: 333) Location: Celestin Ballroom, 3rd Level Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 sunday SESSION 1: 10:30AM – 12 NOON IAS Partner Workshop: Social and Political Science Contributions to the Current HIV/AIDS Response (Session WORKSHOPS ID: 850) Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 HIV Criminalization: Ending Stigma in the U.S. and Around the World (Session ID: 592) Getting Ready for the ACA: Insurance 101 (Session ID: Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 705) Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Innovative E-learning Medication Adherence Modules (Session ID: 160) Jurisdictional HIV Prevention Plan Developments (Session Location: Empire C, Level 2 ID: 720) Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Structural-level Interventions for HIV Prevention - Strategies for Program Implementation (Session ID: 470) An HIV Cure: How close are we? (Session ID: 721) Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Location: Strand 11B, Level 2

Building Local Latino Leadership through the National CDC's "Let's Stop HIV Together" National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) (Session ID: 498) Communications Campaign (Session ID: 722) Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Location: Strand 12B, Level 2

Connecting Housing, Healthcare, and Mainstream USCA Host Committee Workshop: Comprehensive Systems: Learning from the Successes and Challenges of Sexual Health Education as HIV Prevention (Session ID: Integrated HIV/AIDS Housing Planning (Session ID: 380) 724) Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Location: Empire B, Level 2

Linkage and Retention in HIV care: Lessons learned from The AIDS Institute Partner Workshop: Women over 50 - the Louisiana Positive Charge Initiative (Session ID: 225) HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis (Session ID: 725) Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Location: Strand 13B, Level 2

Using HIV Surveillance Data to Conduct Linkage to and The Black AIDS Institute Partner Workshop: Evaluating Re-Engagement in Care Activities: An Update on CDC Knowledge and Attitudes of the HIV/AIDS Workforce: and Health Department Activities (Session ID: 102) Survey Results from the 2012 United States Conference Location: Empire D, Level 2 on AIDS and 12 Major Cities Across the US (Session ID: 775) Building Research Capacity in Local AIDS Service Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Organization to Enhance HIV Prevention Efforts for Young Men Who Have Sex with Men (Session ID: 61) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Effective Change Management and Data Driven Decision- Plenary Session: Federal Perspectives on the Affordable making in the Evolving HIV Landscape (Session ID: 549) Care Act (Session ID: 902) Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Location: Celestin Ballroom, 3rd Level

Linking and Retaining Homeless HIV-Positive Women of Color in Care: From Provider and Research Perspectives (Session ID: 228) Location: Bolden 3, Level 2

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SEMINARS: 2:30 – 5:30PM The AIDS Institute Partner Seminar: Getting to Zero - Achieving Viral Suppression on a National Level Through Tools of Engagement - The Art of Activation (supported Adequate Funding of Domestic HIV/AIDS Programs by Gilead Sciences) (Session ID: 776) (Session ID: 729) Location: Empire C, Level 2 Location: Strand 13B, Level 2

How Do You Get Down? An Urban Condom Campaign in USCA Host Committee Seminar: HIV/AIDS - A Southern Los Angeles (Session ID: 71) Epidemic (Session ID: 730) Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Location: Empire B, Level 2

Enhancing the Treatment as Prevention Strategy to Intersection of Ryan White Care Act & Affordable Care sunday Address Sexual Concurrency amongst Men Who Have Act Policies (Session ID: 731) Sex with Men in the U.S. (Session ID: 117) Location: Empire D, Level 2 Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 NASTAD Partner Seminar: Public Health Implications Do One Thing: a comprehensive, neighborhood-based and State Responses to HIV Criminalization and HIV test and treat program in Philadelphia, PA (Session Modernization Efforts (Session ID: 778) ID: 444) Location: Bolden 5, Level 2 Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Mobilizing Black Gay Leaders to Combat HIV in Our User-Centered Redesign of CDC’s HIV Web Site: From Community (Session ID: 803) Formative Research to Launch (Session ID: 487) Location: Empire A, Level 2 Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Utilizing HIP Strategies to Achieve Better Outcomes for Advocating for Social Security disability benefits for Transgender Women (Session ID: 802) disabled People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHWA): laws, Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 strategies, and challenges (Session ID: 89) Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Good Housing Means Good Health: Advocating for Affordable Housing as High Impact Prevention, Access to Care in the South (Session ID: 198) Treatment and Care for Women (Session ID: 450) Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Location: Strand 11A, Level 2

Staying Alive: Fiscal Health & Sustainability for Ryan Addressing the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence White-funded Programs (Session ID: 546) Against Women & Girls, & Gender Related Health Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Disparities. President's Working Group Report (Session ID: 851) Integrating HIV/AIDS with Mainstream Housing and Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Employment Services: Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Response to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy Welcome to the Youth Initiative: Leadership Development (Session ID: 100) for Youth Scholars (session ID: 820) Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4

Defining a path for PrEP implementation among Black HIV and Aging – Ending Invisibility and Meeting Needs gay and bisexual men (Session ID: 185) Location: Bolden 6, Level 2 Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. The Blueprint: A treatment Education plan for the 21st century. (Session ID: 726) Welcome Reception Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Location: Exhibit Hall, Storyville Hall, Level 3

NAHC Partner Seminar: HIV/AIDS Housing in the South (Session ID: 777) Location: Bolden 4, Level 2

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 little or no risk and extremely harsh and disproportionate sentences in the United States and around the world. Opening Plenary Breakfast: Ending AIDS in the South Unfortunately, the U.S. overreliance on incarceration has 8:30 am – 10:00 am begun to spread worldwide. This panel will explore the inter-relationship of HIV criminalization with other criminal Moderator: Robert Greenwald, Center for Health Law and justice issues including the criminalization of people of

sunday Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School color, the use of mass incarceration and similar issues, not Presenters: Ruth DeRamus only in the U.S. but worldwide. Leandro Mena, University of Mississippi Medical Center Daniel Driffin, University of Connecticut DeAnn Gruber, STD/HIV Program Director, Louisiana Innovative E-learning Medication Adherence Modules Department of Health & Hospitals (Session ID: 160) Alexis McGill Johnson, Chair, Planned Parenthood Federation Presenters: Rhondette Jones, MPH and Kathleen Green, Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA NMAC is extremely excited to be returning to New Location: Empire C, Level 2 Orleans for USCA 2013, a city and community with which Track: High Impact Prevention we and this conference have extremely strong ties, forged Level: Beginner in part during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The target population for this year's conference is the Deep An important challenge for HIV care providers is to South. According to CDC surveillance data, seven of the improve patients’ adherence to HIV treatment. The CDC’s ten states with the highest rate of AIDS diagnosis, eight Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Capacity Building Branch of the ten with the highest rates of HIV infection, and six (CBB) has developed four (4) e-learning modules and of the ten with the highest rates of individuals living with a mobile application (app) to promote comprehensive HIV are in America’s southern region. Overall, the region medication adherence among PLWH. This workshop will accounted for 46 percent of all new HIV infections in 2010. include an overview of the mobile app and each evidence- Given the profile of the epidemic in the South, and the based e-learning module, which were found to improve social determinants of health that result in poor health HIV adherence among ART naïve and/or experienced outcomes, it is especially critical that we highlight the patients. These four evidenced-based behavioral unique challenges facing those working to combat HIV/ intervention strategies, Project HEART (Helping Enhance AIDS in the region. The opening plenary will highlight Adherence to Anti-retroviral Therapy), SMART (Sharing these issues and what can be done to improve access to Medical Adherence Responsibilities Together) Couples, care and services in the Deep South. Partnership for Health – Medication Adherence, and Peer Support are media-rich, interactive e-learning training modules that will give providers additional tools to assess, SESSION 1: 10:30AM – 12 NOON support, and improve their patients’ adherence to ART regimens. Participants will discuss how HIV providers WORKSHOPS can implement these strategies into their practice and to determine how their agency can support integration of HIV Criminalization: Ending Stigma in the U.S. and these strategies into service delivery. Around the World (Session ID: 592)

Presenter: William McColl, AIDS United, Washington, DC Structural-level Interventions for HIV Prevention - Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 Strategies for Program Implementation (Session ID: 470) Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection Level: Beginner Presenters: Alice Gandelman, MPH, Tim Vincent, MFT, and Linda DeSantis, M.Ed., California STD/HIV Prevention It is now clear that HIV-specific criminal laws, the use of Training Center (CA PTC), Oakland, CA felony laws such as attempted murder and aggravated Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 assault, and the use of sentence enhancements to Track: High Impact Prevention prosecute HIV positive individuals are based on outdated Level: Intermediate and erroneous beliefs about the routes, risks, and consequences of HIV transmission. Prosecutions under Structural-level interventions (SLIs) are newly required such laws have led to convictions for activities that pose initiatives of health departments, and can be an important

32 Sunday, September 8 strategy to address NHAS goals, particularly HIV-related AIDS Housing Plan (HOPWA Special Projects of National health disparities, including decreasing stigma, racism, Significance) highlights the successes and challenges and homophobia. This workshop will provide a working of grantees funded under the Housing Opportunities definition of SLIs and key concepts, with strategies for for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA) program’s Integrated successful implementation for HIV programs. Interactive HIV/AIDS Housing Plan (IHHP) grants, a part of the learning activities will be used throughout the workshop Special Projects of National Significance. Seven IHHP and a planning framework will be introduced for grantees were selected based on their community-wide participants to implement SLIs in their local or state HIV strategies to build necessary community partnerships to prevention programs. breakdown the systems barriers that impede access and Participants will also learn how SLIs can be used in continuation of care. Through the use of case studies, combination with behavioral and biomedical approaches the presentation highlights the first year strategies, the sunday to maximize outcomes. Group discussion about structural- barriers confronted, and the challenges and successes level strategies previously conducted and lessons learned experienced by the seven participating communities. In from those that have been implemented will occur addition, the presentation addresses ways in which the throughout the workshop. communities utilized housing data, health data, and key systems to support their efforts. After the first year of IHHP implementation, each grantee has made significant Building Local Latino Leadership through the National efforts in coordinating and collaborating with traditionally Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) (Session ID: 498) disconnected systems (healthcare, homeless and housing services, and related social services) to improve systematic Presenter: Antonio Ochoa, Latino Commission on AIDS, delivery of housing and services to low-income individuals New York, NY and families living with HIV/AIDS in the community. Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Beginner Linkage and Retention in HIV care: Lessons learned from the Louisiana Positive Charge Initiative (Session ID: 225) In this workshop session, participants will engage in an interactive discussion around building leadership at the Presenters: Russell Brewer, Sarah Chrestman, Sam Burgess community level. Specifically, participants will discuss how and Christopher Walker, Louisiana Office of Public Health, to utilize awareness events, such as those implemented STD/HIV Program, New Orleans, LA to observe National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, to Megan McIntyre, NO/AIDS Taskforce, New Orleans, LA disseminate information and enhance community-level Yolanda Smith, Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge, conversations around HIV so that there is a high impact in Baton Rouge, LA communities at need. Gjvar Payne, Capitol Area Reentry Program, Baton Rouge, LA Angela Hursey, Southwest Louisiana AIDS Council, Lake Connecting Housing, Healthcare, and Mainstream Charles, LA Systems: Learning from the Successes and Challenges of Natalie Dietz, LSU Health Systems, New Orleans, LA Integrated HIV/AIDS Housing Planning (Session ID: 380) Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Presenters: Russell “Rusty” L. Bennett, LGSW, PhD, Level: Intermediate Collaborative Solutions, Inc., Birmingham, AL Amy Palilonis, MSW, Office of HIV/AIDS Housing, This workshop provides an overview of Positive Charge U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, and other linkage to care efforts in Louisiana with lessons Washington, DC learned, successes and challenges at the state and Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 community levels. Track: Housing Level: Advanced Using HIV Surveillance Data to Conduct Linkage to and Healthcare, homeless and housing services, and related Re-Engagement in Care Activities: An Update on CDC social services are often disconnected systems, yet and Health Department Activities (Session ID: 102) represent key elements comprising the system of care for persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Connecting Presenters: Jennifer Taussig, Luke Shouse, Patricia Housing, Healthcare, and Mainstream Systems: Learning Sweeney, John Beltrami, Erica Dunbar, and Wendy Lyons, from the Successes and Challenges of the Integrated HIV/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

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Debbie Wendell, Louisiana Office of Public Health, New constantly evolving HIV Epidemic. Participants will receive Orleans, LA information about some of the HIV-related data sources Location: Empire D, Level 2 available today and receive a framework which can be Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care used to make sense of the information. Participants will Level: Intermediate also be exposed to the fundamentals of how to utilize data when making decisions in their organizations, and the

sunday This workshop will provide an overview of a public basics of organizational change management. health strategy that aims to improve linkage to and re- engagement in HIV care through the use of routinely collected HIV surveillance data to identify individuals not Linking and Retaining Homeless HIV-Positive Women of in care, and the provision of outreach services to link and Color in Care: From Provider and Research Perspectives re-engage them in care. Recent CDC funding initiatives (Session ID: 228) supporting health departments to utilize this strategy will be described as will the work of a CDC Division of HIV/ Presenters: Tina Henderson, JWCH, Los Angeles, CA AIDS Prevention Data to Care Workgroup. A new website Jenica Ryu, USC + Los Angeles County Medical Center, with information and resources to support implementation Los Angeles, CA of this strategy will be shared as will examples from health Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 departments already engaged in using HIV surveillance Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral data for linkage to and re-engagement in care programs. Suppression Level: Beginner

Building Research Capacity in Local AIDS Service Antidotal experiences to successful linkage and retention Organization to Enhance HIV Prevention Efforts for Young of care will be shared. Although increased use of HIV and Men Who Have Sex with Men (Session ID: 61) medical services among HIV-positive homeless women of color is the target objective, other unforeseen barriers Presenter: Jose A. Bauermeister, Center for Sexuality & impact retention and use of services. This information Health Disparities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI will be used to improve HIV prevention programming Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 overall and a national understanding of how to best help Track: Organizations and Change Management and re-link and retain homeless women to HIV services Level: Intermediate and medical programs. On a daily basis, peer volunteers use their knowledge of the drug sub-culture to promote We use our academic-community partnership as a case their acceptance and to establish rapport and trust with study to demonstrate ways in which small, limited-resource the population. Our HIV providers utilize these peers AIDS service organizations (ASOs) can partner with to re-link those who have fallen out of care. Peers can academic institutions to promote impactful community- also coordinate with clinic-based providers to reduce based research that improves the delivery of innovative barriers to service and improve access to care for project and effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care services and participants. interventions for young men who have sex with men (YMSM). Eating Healthy to Stay Healthy: Using HIV Evidence- Based Nutrition Practice Guideline (Session ID: 333) Effective Change Management and Data Driven Decision- making in the Evolving HIV Landscape (Session ID: 549) Presenters: Ginger Bouvier, NO/AIDS Task Force, New Orleans, LA Presenters: Peter Finlayson, ZS Associates, San Francisco, Craig Hankins, Integrative Consulting, New Orleans, LA CA Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Kate Jaffe, Haas Program in Health Management, Track: Treatment and Research Berkeley, CA Level: Beginner Michael Winters, ZS Associates, San Francisco, CA Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Track: Organizations and Change Management Good nutrition is a key factor in maintaining optimal Level: Intermediate health, however people living with HIV contend with many nutritional challenges. This interactive workshop This workshop will address some of the key questions will explore components of a healthy diet, barriers to that organizational managers face as a part of today’s consuming a healthy diet, as well as practical solutions to

34 Sunday, September 8 overcoming those barriers. Providers and consumers will Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 also learn about the HIV Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice Track: Treatment and Research Guideline (developed by the Academy of Nutrition and Level: Intermediate Dietetics), an essential component to the establishment of a successful HIV nutrition care program. This workshop will provide a state-of-the-art overview of the latest research on an AIDS Cure. It will also discuss the meaning of functional cure and the cases of cured patients Getting Ready for the ACA: Insurance 101 (Session ID: seen in the past year. 705)

Presenters: Andrea Weddle, HIV Medicine Association, CDC's "Let's Stop HIV Together" National sunday Arlington, VA Communications Campaign (Session ID: 722) Amy Killelea, National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC Presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Prevention, Atlanta, GA Track: Retention in Care, Primary Care and Viral Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Suppression Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Beginner Level: Beginner

This session will help orient providers and peers to key Let’s Stop HIV Together is part of the Centers for Disease health insurance terms and concepts so they are prepared Control and Prevention’s Act Against AIDS campaign to evaluate the health plans that will be available in the portfolio. It is a national communication campaign Health Insurance Marketplaces. designed to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS and simultaneously combat complacency and stigma by increasing support for people living with HIV. This effort Jurisdictional HIV Prevention Plan Developments (Session gives voice to the more than 1.1 million people currently ID: 720) living with HIV, showing HIV-positive individuals alongside their friends and family members. As part of the Presented by the National Minority AIDS Council, campaign, these individuals share their personal stories Washington, DC and call on everyone to join the fight against the disease. Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Their stories help highlight the fact that HIV touches every Track: High Impact Prevention corner of American society and people with the infection Level: Intermediate are part of the fabric of our families and valued member of our communities. This campaign encourages everyone to The Jurisdictional HIV Prevention Plan is a written Get the Facts, Get Tested, and Get Involved. statement of need developed through a local collaborative process with other HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and In this workshop several Let’s Stop HIV Together treatment providers and programs. This session will campaign participants, will share their personal stories discuss the core elements of the Jurisdictional Plan as of being diagnosed with and living with HIV. Workshop outlined in the CDC’s PS 12-1201 funding announcement. participants will hear about the most recent campaign Learn about best practices and models from health outreach efforts and will learn how to leverage the departments in creating their plans. This workshop will campaign on a local level to support program goals. provide resources and tools to support plan’s development Participants will also learn about opportunities for and monitoring. involvement with other Act Against AIDS campaigns.

An HIV Cure: How close are we? (Session ID: 721) International AIDS Society Partner Workshop: Social and Political Science Contributions to the Current HIV/AIDS Presenters: David Evans, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA Response (Session ID: 850) Moises Agosto, National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC Presenters: Judith D. Auerbach, PhD, Department of Tim Horn, Treatment Action Group, New York, NY Medicine, School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco, CA, Dr. Hakan Seckinelgin, Associate Professor, International Social Policy, The London School of Economic and Political

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Science, London, United Kingdom Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Track: Treatment and Research Track: High Impact Prevention Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Level: Intermediate

The importance of social, structural and political forces Data suggest increased need for targeted HIV prevention in the HIV pandemic are generally well-recognized, messages and HIV & Hepatitis testing strategies among

sunday but the science about them is not. To redress this, the women over 50. The purpose of the workshop is to International AIDS Society has identified Social and present recent HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis data among Political Research as one of its Policy and Advocacy women over 50, engage in didactic discussion regarding priorities. This seminar with highlight key topics in HIV- HIV prevention messages and HIV testing strategies related social and political science, such as community targeting women over 50 and discuss the importance of engagement in science and issues of governance in increasing women’s knowledge of their HIV and Hepatitis the global AIDS response, as well as discuss efforts to status to optimize future health outcomes. It is reported integrate social science into other IAS priority areas, that older woman were more likely to be diagnosed such as cure research, treatment as prevention, and key with HIV infection late in the course of their disease populations. The seminar will address relationships than younger woman. Participants will hear and share between researchers, communities, and policy-makers, best practices and lessons learned from implementing which should be of interest to USCA delegates. prevention and testing efforts among women over 50. Participants will gain a better understanding of how providers and key personnel working with women over 50 USCA Host Committee Workshop: Comprehensive Sexual are to use resources to further demonstrate the need for Health Education as HIV Prevention (Session ID: 724) targeted prevention education and messages and access to HIV and Hepatitis testing strategies. Presented by the USCA Host Committee, New Orleans, LA Location: Empire B, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention The Black AIDS Institute Partner Workshop: Evaluating Level: Intermediate Knowledge and Attitudes of the HIV/AIDS Workforce: Survey Results from the 2012 United States Conference In this workshop, participants will gain an understanding on AIDS and 12 Major Cities Across the US (Session ID: of the connection between comprehensive sexual health 775) education (CSHE) for youth and successful HIV prevention strategies. Participants will also learn best practices for Presented by The Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA CSHE advocacy in their home-states to establish and/or Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 maintain CSHE-friendly policies. The workshop will feature Track: High Impact Prevention presenters from across the CSHE advocacy spectrum, Level: Intermediate including local presenters advocating for CSHE policy changes in Louisiana, as well as advocates from states that This will be an interactive session during which have successfully implemented CSHE in their home states. participants will engage in discussions about potential Participants will learn practical strategies and tools for gaps in HIV/AIDS basic science and treatment knowledge, CSHE advocacy, and gain a deeper understanding of the and attitudes toward biomedical interventions, among connections between CSHE and HIV prevention. 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 The AIDS Institute Partner Workshop: Women over 50 - epidemic. During the 2012 United States Conference HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis (Session ID: 725) on AIDS (USCA), a survey that explored these topics was completed by 643 attendees who self-identified as Presenters: Michael Ruppal, Michelle Scavnicky and members of the US HIV/AIDS workforce on behalf of Spencer Lieb, The AIDS Institute, Tampa, FL AIDS service organizations (ASOs), health departments, or Ivy Turnbull, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and other community-based organizations (CBOs). The survey Families, Washington, DC was also launched in 12 major cities across the US during Marilyn Merida, University of South Florida, Florida Family the spring of 2013 and the survey was completed by an AIDS Network, Tampa, FL 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.

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AIDS 2012 - The Latino Experience (Session ID: 779) issued the United States’ first National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). Three years later, our efforts to improve early Presenters: Sergio Farfan, Louisiana Latino Health diagnosis, expand access to care and reduce health Coalition, New Orleans, LA disparities have made significant progress. On October Soraya Galeas, NIH Hispanic Advisory Board, Washington 1, 2013, open enrollment will begin for ACA health DC plans both in the federal and state marketplaces. Britt Rios-Ellis, NCLR/CSULB Latino Center, Long Beach, These changes will transform our entire health care CA system, including America’s HIV/AIDS infrastructure. In Francisco Ruiz, Centers for Disease Control and accordance with the third anniversary of the release of the Prevention, Atlanta, GA NHAS and on the eve of ACA open enrollment, the White Richard Zaldivar, THE WALL, Las Memorias, Los Angeles, House has issued an executive order establishing a new sunday CA Continuum of Care Initiative aimed at improving health Location: Bolden 5, Level 2 care engagement and outcomes among people living with Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection HIV or AIDS. Speakers will explain the current state of Level: Beginner the federal government’s efforts to implement health care reform, and improve targeting and coordination of HIV/ This session will explain the Latino/Hispanic experience AIDS programs. at the 2012 International AIDS Conference and the outcomes. This session will highlight Latino specific HIV/AIDS issues that were identified during AIDS 2012 SEMINARS: 2:30 – 5:30PM presentations and discussions. This panel seeks to continue the dialogue on how to effectively collaborate Tools of Engagement - The Art of Activation (supported and work from the United States, Latin America and the by Gilead Sciences) (Session ID: 776) Caribbean. Presenters: Michael Mugavero, MD, National Patient The panel will discuss the use of Social Media pertaining Engagement Expert to HIV/AIDS among Latinos. It will also highlight specific Judith Hibbard, DrPH, Author of the Patient Activation data with examples of the programs and activities that Measure™ took place at AIDS 2012 on Latinos. Location: Empire C, Level 2 Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral Suppression 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Level: Intermediate

Plenary Session: Federal Perspectives on the Affordable All along the HIV care continuum individuals face Care Act (Session ID: 902) challenges that prevent them from engaging in care and **Note - Lunch will not be served, however, food will be achieving optimal health outcomes. available for purchase. To transform the HIV treatment cascade, we must employ Moderator: Paul Kawata, Executive Director, National innovative ways to support engagement and retention Minority AIDS Council in care. ‘Patient activation’, a studied approach that has Speakers : Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH, Director, National fostered increased engagement in care for people with all Center on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted kinds of chronic illnesses, holds promise for people living Diseases, and Tuberculosis Prevention (NCHHSTP), with HIV. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, This dynamic 2-hour session will focus on patient GA activation: what it is, how it’s measured and what it means Laura Cheever, MD, MS, Associate Administrator, for designing effective interventions to achieve both HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB), Health Resources Services individual and societal goals. Administration (HRSA), Rockville, MD Stephen Cha, MD, MHSR, Chief Medical Officer, Center Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to increase for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare and patient activation with national patient engagement Medicaid Services (CMS), Baltimore, MD expert Michael Mugavero, MD and author of the Patient Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 Activation Measure™ Judith Hibbard, DrPH.

In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care (ACA) became the law of the land and President Obama

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Integrating HIV/AIDS with Mainstream Housing and The session goals are to enable participants to adopt Employment Services: Addressing Social Determinants comprehensive and detailed conclusions, policy of Health in Response to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy recommendations, and action steps tied to mitigating (Session ID: 100) HIV and related health disparities and socioeconomic determinants among gay men of color, as detailed in the Presenters: Nancy Chiarella, CARES, Inc., Albany, NY RISE Proud Action Plan.

sunday Perry Junjulas, Albany Damien Center, Albany, NY Tracy Boff, Catholic Charities Rochester, Rochester, NY Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Utilizing HIP Strategies to Achieve Better Outcomes for Track: Housing Transgender Women (Session ID: 802) Level: Intermediate Presenter: JoAnne Keatley, MSW, CoE for Transgender This session will present the U.S. Department of Housing Health, University of California San Francisco, San and Urban Development (HUD) Special Project of National Francisco, CA Significance, Foundations for Living, as an example of Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 HUD’s Commitment to implementing the President’s Track: High Impact Prevention National HIV/AIDS Strategy and HUD’s 2010-2015 Level: Beginner Strategic Plan goal to use “Housing (and Employment) as a Platform for Improving Quality of Life”. The seminar will Transgender (trans) women are disproportionately also discuss the challenges of developing an Integrated impacted by HIV. A recent global meta-analysis of 29 HIV/AIDS Housing Plan through work with Continuums of studies from 15 countries found that trans women are Care and implementation of HUD’s Homeless Emergency almost 50 times more likely to be HIV infected than other Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act. adults of reproductive age (Baral et al., 2013). This global analysis found an estimated HIV prevalence of 22% among trans women in the United States. Welcome to the Youth Initiative: Leadership Development for Youth Scholars (Session ID: 820) While trans communities are included in NHAS, HIP and the PACHA resolution, implementing High Impact Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 Prevention with trans women may prove challenging. Level: Beginner Community based organizations may be challenged by creating new partnerships with federally qualified health This welcome session will allow youth scholars to centers and identifying trans competent physicians. understand their roles and responsibilities at USCA. This Clinical settings may be challenged by incorporating trans will be an opportunity to discuss what leadership skills can peer health navigators, increasing the clinical capacity be cultivated at USCA and the best way to accomplish of physicians to treat trans patients, coding trans health that. Some areas of particular interest include messaging, services and retaining a highly stigmatized population in communication, and advocacy. treatment. This seminar will increase the capacity of CBOs and clinics to implement HIP among trans women.

Mobilizing Black Gay Leaders to Combat HIV in our Community (Session ID: 803) How Do You Get Down? An Urban Condom Campaign in Los Angeles (Session ID: 71) Presented by the National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC Presenters: Natalie Sanchez, Thomas Siegmeth, Kenneth Location: Empire A, Level 2 Almanza, and Joaquin Gutierrez, AltaMed Health Services Track: High Impact Prevention Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Level: Intermediate Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention This is a special session for Black Gay men to train, Level: Intermediate educate, and empower current and emerging leaders as well as those serving or working with gay populations AltaMed’s Top, Bottom, Vers campaign resulted in through trainings on community leadership (with a focus the distribution of over a hundred thousand branded on advocacy and mobilization), leading change, emotional condoms throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties. intelligence. Incorporation of sexual position preference identification was methodical for introducing protection with primary

38 Sunday, September 8 and casual sex partners. AltaMed will share the multiple and AIDS-related mortality rates. We developed a components of an effective condom campaign, comprehensive neighborhood-based HIV screening and demonstrate the impact a large condom campaign can linkage to care program. This program, entitled “Do One have in promoting safer sex on a community-level, and Thing,” includes a large-scale social media and marketing discuss how the Top, Bottom, Vers PSA further contributed campaign; community mobilization with businesses, to sending a clear and practical safer sex message to men churches and community leaders; routine HIV screening who have sex with men. at a federally qualified health center; and a door-to-door HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) testing program in four census tracts throughout zip code 19143. This geographically Enhancing the Treatment as Prevention Strategy to oriented HIV testing and treatment program expanded Address Sexual Concurrency amongst Men Who Have HIV testing over 10-fold in a neighborhood with high sunday Sex with Men in the U.S. (Session ID: 117) infection rates and had high rates of retention in care. Neighborhood-based approaches to HIV testing and Presenters: Stephen Fallon, PhD, Skills4, Ft Lauderdale, FL treatment are important strategies to reduce geographic Rafaele Narvaez and Jose Obed Caballero, Latinos Salud, and racial disparities in HIV infection. Wilton Manors, FL Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention User-Centered Redesign of CDC’s HIV Web Site: From Level: Intermediate Formative Research to Launch (Session ID: 487)

Treatment as Prevention (TasP) has been shown to prevent Presenters: Michael LaFlam, Susan Robinson, Hadiza virtually all HIV transmission to uninfected partners. Buge, Rohit Verma and Lisa Richman, Centers for Disease However, since the groundbreaking HPTN 052 study Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA primarily followed married, heterosexual couples, this Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 session will describe the possible challenges that arise Track: High Impact Prevention when applying TasP here in the U.S., where the majority Level: Intermediate of infections occur amongst Men Who Have Sex with Men. The facilitators will review national studies as well as The CDC HIV Web site (www.cdc.gov/hiv) is one of the local stories from diverse MSM couples (serodiscordant, largest HIV websites on the Internet and is seen as a sero-sort POZ, and presumably HIV-), and how awareness credible, trusted source for scientifically-accurate HIV of TasP may affect risk perceptions. Participants will prevention information. With an increasing number then discuss ways to address risks arising from “sexual of people using the Internet as a resource for health concurrency” to their coupled or relationship-oriented information, it is a priority for CDC to improve and expand MSM clients. Participants will debate their own confidence its Web presence to include a new site organization and in the risk-reduction strategies of: condom use, TasP, templates that are more usable, functional, and visually serosorting, PrEP and PEP, and close with a discussion of appealing. It is also critical that CDC’s HIV prevention what efforts may be most effective to address their own information be current, accurate, well-organized, and community’s local needs. accessible. This seminar will explore the redesign process CDC implemented to better meet strategic public health communication goals and target key partner Do One Thing: a comprehensive, neighborhood-based constituencies. This seminar will explain the User Centered HIV test and treat program in Philadelphia, PA (Session Design (UCD) processes and best practices and how ID: 444) CDC integrated this process into its redesign efforts at all levels. Participants will have an opportunity to see data Presenters: Amy Nunn, Miriam Hospital/Brown University, collected during all stages of the redesign life-cycle and Providence, RI how the site evolved into its current form. Before and Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 after-redesign metrics will be presented, as well as lessons Track: High Impact Prevention learned. Level: Advanced

Philadelphia’s HIV infection rate is five times the national average. Although most new HIV infections in Philadelphia are concentrated in a few neighborhoods, testing and treatment programs have historically not been focused on geographic pockets of the city with high infection

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Advocating for Social Security disability benefits for Staying Alive: Fiscal Health & Sustainability for Ryan disabled People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHWA): laws, White-funded Programs (Session ID: 546) strategies, and challenges (Session ID: 89) Presenters: Steve Jackson, Omaha, NE Presenter: Andy Chu, Esq. Positive Resource Center, San Mike Gellman, Washington, DC Francisco, CA Location: Strand 12B, Level 2

sunday Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Track: Organizations and Change Management Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Level: Advanced Level: Beginner Fiscal sustainability is a significant issue for ASOs, CBOs This seminar is an in-depth presentation on the Social and health departments in the current fiscal and political Security disability application process for disabled People environment. It is imperative for these agencies to focus Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Participants will learn on strengthening fiscal portfolios and maintaining strict the basic rules of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) monitoring of existing funds received by federal programs. and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as well as Fiscal and program monitoring standards are relevant in advocacy tools for winning their clients’ disability claims, the life cycle of funded programs. Meeting these demands such as the Social Security Administration’s definition of can be challenging for programs to grasp and implement. disability, the effect of resources and income on benefit The seminar will address and enhance: eligibility, HIV-related impairments covered in the federal disability listings, documentation of HIV- related symptoms • the emerging demands of ASO, CBOs, and health and limitations, presumptive disability payments for HIV+ departments regarding fiscal sustainability clients while they await resolution of their claims, the effect • organizational sustainability, program income, and fiscal of substance use on benefit eligibility, age as a vocational and programmatic monitoring standards factor for older PLWHA, and the effect of the Affordable • the fiscal management infrastructure of Ryan White- Care Act on Social Security claimants. funded providers

Access to Care in the South (Session ID: 198) Defining a path for PrEP implementation among Black gay and bisexual men (Session ID: 185) Presenters: Maura Riordan, AIDS United, Washington, DC Russell Brewer, PhD, Louisiana Public Health Institute, New Presensters: Charles Stephens, Atlanta, GA Orleans, LA Ronald Brooks, UCLA Department of Family Medicine, Los Laurie Dill, MD, Medical AIDS Outreach, Montgomery, AL Angeles, CA Beth Stringfield, Duke University, Raleigh-Durham, NC Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Track: Treatment and Research Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Level: Intermediate Level: Intermediate

This session will highlight three large, community-wide This seminar will include a presentation on the results initiatives funded by AIDS United to improve systems of of a study examining the acceptability of HIV Pre- care for PLWHA in communities in the Deep South. Each Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among at-risk black gay of the three projects is unique in its approach, but driven and bisexual men. PrEP is a new biomedical HIV by the local epidemic and identified gaps in linkage and prevention intervention with the potential to reduce the care. The projects include: rural HIV/AIDS telemedicine rate of new HIV infections among this highly impacted in Alabama, Peer Navigation work in rural and urban population. The presentation will include a discussion North Carolina and the integration of HIV/AIDS linkage of potential facilitators and barriers to PrEP adoption and retention efforts within Louisiana incarceration and among black gay and bisexual men and will conclude with public health entities. Using the Gardner Cascade as a recommendations of how to implement PrEP with this frame of reference, each site will discuss their successes population. and challenges, as well as sharing tools and strategies that are working well on the ground. The session will bring a focus on the unique issues that present themselves when working toward ending the AIDS epidemic in the Deep South.

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The Blueprint: A treatment Education plan for the 21st to achieve an “AIDS-Free Generation.” A desire to cut century. (Session ID: 726) spending and reduce the federal deficit has resulted in budget cuts, sequestration and decreased funding Presenters: David Barr and Sam Avrett, The Fremont for all HIV programs. These measures have created Center, New York, NY great uncertainty and, without adequate funding, it will Joseph Elias and Alex Garner, National Minority AIDS be difficult to achieve the goal of eradicating HIV in Council, Washington, DC the United States. Congress has become increasingly Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 divided and it has become harder to secure funding Track: Treatment and Research for such programs as Ryan White, CDC HIV Prevention, Level: Intermediate HOPWA and NIH AIDS Research. Furthermore, while implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) sunday This is a working seminar in which participants will work will increase access to health care for many people, on completing the activities and work of the National it is not known how it will impact the future funding Treatment Education, Health Literacy and Wellness of HIV/AIDS programs, particularly the Ryan White Initiative working groups. An overview of the blueprint Program. Presenters will describe the current budgetary will be provided and strategies for implementation environment, including sequestration, the FY2013 and dissemination will be discussed. Programmers, Continuing Resolution and the President’s FY2014 budget. implementers, treatment educators and PLWH leaders are Up-to-date information on FY2014 spending bills and their encouraged to attend. proposed funding levels for each HIV program will be reviewed and their likely impact on getting to zero will be analyzed. The presenters will also describe the potential NAHC Partner Seminar: HIV/AIDS Housing in the South needs and shifts in funding that could occur within the (Session ID: 777) Ryan White Program as ACA is implemented. This seminar will enable participants to better understand how they can Presenters: Kathie Hiers, AIDS Alabama, Birmingham, AL encourage Congress and the Administration to more fully Rusty Bennett, Collaborative Solutions, Birmingham, AL support domestic HIV program funding. Claude Martin, ACADIANA Cares, Lafayette, LA Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Track: Housing USCA Host Committee Seminar: HIV/AIDS - A Southern Level: Beginner Epidemic (Session ID: 730)

This presentation will consider the unique challenges Presented by the USCA Host Committee, New Orleans, and opportunities that HIV/AIDS Housing consumers and LA providers face in the South. Faculty including NAHC and Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 FAPP Housing Work Group members will discuss the steps Track: High Impact Prevention being taken to reduce the incidence and prevalence of Level: Beginner HIV/AIDS in the South through sound housing responses and education. This seminar will focus on the disparate impact of HIV on the Southern United States, contributors to this health inequity, and strategies for holistically addressing the The AIDS Institute Partner Seminar: Getting to Zero - HIV epidemic in the South. A panel of experts will give Achieving Viral Suppression on a National Level Through an overview of HIV in the South and the driving factors Adequate Funding of Domestic HIV/AIDS Program of the epidemic. Debbie Wendell, Epidemiologist (Session ID: 729) for the Louisiana Office of Public Health, will provide an in-depth discussion utilizing health outcome data Presenters: Carl Schmid, Michael Ruppal, Bridget Verrette and maps; present a comparison of the national and and Lindsay Dawson, The AIDS Institute, Tampa, FL Southern treatment cascades; and describe progress towards meeting NHAS objectives. Given the data, issue Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 experts on health care access, health disparities among Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral minorities, and stigma/criminalization, will analyze these Supression challenges and the relationship between them. This Level: Intermediate session will close with a collaborative discussion between panelists and audience members to identify strategies and This seminar will focus on the impact that federal funding collaborations to turn the tide against HIV in the South. has on domestic HIV/AIDS programs and its necessity

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Intersection of Ryan White Care Act and Afordable Care behavior otherwise legal for people who are not HIV Act policies (Session ID: 731) positive or who do not know their status. Given the role state HIV/AIDS programs play in implementing HIV related Presenter: Dr. Laura Cheever, Associate Administrator, policies, laws and procedures, HIV criminal laws pose a Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS professional and ethical conflict for health care providers, Bureau, Rockville, MD public health officials and health departments. However,

sunday Location: Empire D, Level 2 health departments, public health advocates, medical Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral providers and HIV advocates nationwide have taken steps Suppression to address HIV criminalization and modernize policies in Level: Intermediate legislative and legal contexts. This session will focus on the public health pathway to address HIV discrimination Many PLWH who receive Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program- and criminalization and will include state examples of funded services will be eligible for Medicaid or can successful, innovative modernization efforts. purchase health insurance through the Marketplace beginning in 2014. Dr. Cheever will discuss the significant and complimentary role of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Good Housing Means Good Health: Advocating Program as people have access to new expanded for Affordable Housing as High Impact Prevention, coverage options under the Affordable Care Act. The Treatment and Care for Women (Session ID: 450) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program will continue to play a significant role to ensure PLWH receive the range of Presenters: Ebony Johnson, The Women’s Collective, services needed to be engaged and retained in care Washington, DC and to improve health outcomes along the HIV care Christine Campbell, Housing Works, Washington, DC continuum. Ryan White services will continue to be Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 needed to ensure coverage completion. She will discuss Track: High Impact Prevention several new and updated HAB policies that reflect the Level: Intermediate Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’s new role in supporting the Affordable Care Act and continuing to ensure that PLWH There are an estimated 290,000 women in the US receive the services they need. living with HIV with the number ever increasing and WLWHA are now 40.5% of the beneficiaries of the Dr. Cheever will discuss the current state of Ryan White- HOPWA program. Homeless women are among the funded services, how these services result in improved most vulnerable members of our population as housing clinical outcomes, and how the Ryan White Program instability is linked to increased drug use, victimization addresses President Obama’s Executive Order issued and partner violence, and likelihood of engaging in risky on July 15, 2013 to accelerate improvements in HIV sexual behaviors. Studies have found that that increasing Prevention and Care through the HIV Care Continuum a woman’s access to stable and supportive housing can Initiative. dramatically decrease their likelihood of contracting HIV. Housing is among the strongest predictors of accessing HIV primary care, maintaining continuous care, receiving NASTAD Partner Seminar: Public Health Implications care that meets clinical practice standards, and entry into and State Responses to HIV Criminalization and HIV care. A lack of stable housing often impacts not just Modernization Efforts (Session ID: 778) the woman’s propensity to engage in risk-taking, but also that of her family. Stable and affordable housing is an Presenters: essential tool for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. Oscar Mairena and Terrance Moore, National Alliance of The presentation will include an overview of the policy and State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC legal advocacy efforts to end homelessness for PLWHA in Randy Mayer, Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Washington, DC. Moines, IA Location: Bolden 5, Level 2 Level: Intermediate

As it stands, 32 states and two U.S. territories have criminal laws based on the exposure, transmission or non-disclosure of HIV. These laws have resulted in many egregious human rights violations, including harsh sentencing of people living with HIV for engaging in

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Addressing the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence Against Women & Girls, & Gender Related Health Disparities. President's Working Group Report (Session ID: 851)

Location: Strand 11B, Level 2

HIV and Aging – Ending Invisibility and Meeting Needs

Presenters, including moderators and panel members: sunday Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD (AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA)) Aaron Tax, JD (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)) Daniel Tietz, RN, JD (ACRIA) Janet Weinberg (Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC)) Annie Sawyer-Williams (New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council) Marla Chirdon (New Orleans Council on Aging) Christine Brennan, PhD (Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center) Sharon DeCuir (PLWHA, Baton Rouge) Location: Bolden 6, Level 2

This seminar will provide an overview of the aging HIV epidemic in the U.S. and around the world, including the significant challenges faced by this population and their communities in meeting their care and service needs. A discussion of how this changing demographic has sparked new advocacy initiatives aimed at local, state, federal and international policy makers and stakeholders to better meet the prevention and care needs of older PWHA will follow. Examples of how AIDS service organizations have tailored direct services to better meet the needs of an aging epidemic will be shared. The seminar will conclude with a panel discussion by older PWHA, stakeholders, and providers to identify gaps in our response to aging and HIV and next steps in serving this burgeoning population.

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Welcome Reception Location: Exhibit Hall, Storyville Hall, Level 3

43 Visit the I Design Exhibit Hall booth #105 to meet Mondo Guerra of “Project Runway” and acclaimed photographer Duane Cramer! ...... Here on behalf of Merck’s HIV education campaign, I Design, come join Mondo and Duane to add your personal print to the community scarf

...... Mondo and Duane have been living positively with HIV, and continue aiming to help empower people living with HIV to work with their doctors to “tailor” their HIV treatment plan by approaching HIV treatment “through their own lens.”

Hear Mondo and Duane share their personal stories and the importance of communication with their doctor to design their HIV treatment plan at the Merck sponsored plenary session! For more information visit www.ProjectIDesign.com. IF YOU’RE HIV POSITIVE AND YOU’VE LOST WEIGHT WITHOUT TRYING IT MIGHT BE TIME TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

Ask yourself: Do I have less physical endurance than I used to? Have others noticed any changes in the way that I look based on changes in my weight? Have changes in my weight negatively affected how I feel? If so, you may be experiencing HIV-associated wasting, a serious condition that can affect your health.

Talk to your doctor right away about Serostim® [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection], a medication that may help. Sign up for more information about HIV-associated wasting and Serostim® at serostim.com/info6.

WHAT IS SEROSTIM® [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection]? Serostim® is an injectable prescription medicine used for the treatment of HIV patients with wasting or cachexia to increase lean body mass and body weight, and improve physical endurance. Treatment with antiretroviral therapy at the same time is necessary. IMPORTANT RISK INFORMATION YOU SHOULD NOT TAKE SEROSTIM® IF YOU HAVE: • A critical illness due to complications after open heart surgery, abdominal surgery, serious injuries or have severe breathing problems • Cancer or undergoing treatment for cancer • Certain types of eye diseases caused by diabetes • Allergies to growth hormone or benzyl alcohol, an ingredient in the liquid used to mix Serostim® WHAT SHOULD I TELL MY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER BEFORE USING SEROSTIM®? Before using Serostim®, tell your doctor if you have or are: • A critical illness due to complications after open heart surgery, abdominal surgery or serious injuries or have severe breathing problems • Cancer or history of cancer • Skin lesions • Diabetes, a family history of diabetes or have been told by your doctor that you are at risk for diabetes • Multiple hormone deficiencies • Pregnant or nursing • Taking any medications, especially cyclosporine, hormone replacement therapy, insulin or other diabetes medications, drugs containing steroids, or drugs for seizures • Liver or kidney disease • Over 65 years of age • Have any other medical condition WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF SEROSTIM®? SEROSTIM® MAY CAUSE SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDING: • Concomitant antiretroviral therapy • Impaired glucose tolerance/diabetes • Intracranial hypertension • Fluid retention/carpal tunnel syndrome • Kaposi’s sarcoma, lymphoma, and other malignancies • Local and systemic reactions • Pancreatitis THE MOST COMMON SIDE EFFECTS OF SEROSTIM® INCLUDE: • In clinical trials the most common adverse reactions included swelling (particularly of the hands or feet), muscle pain, joint pain, numbness, and pain in extremities. • Injection site reactions (pain, numbness, redness, swelling). Change (rotate) your injection site to help lower your risk for injection site reactions. • Fluid retention • Bone, joint or muscle pain • Carpal tunnel syndrome • Breast enlargement • Nausea • Fatigue • Increase in blood glucose • Increase in triglycerides

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088. To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact EMD Serono at 1-800-283-8088 ext. 5563.

This information is not intended to replace discussions with your doctor. For additional information about Serostim®, please consult the Prescribing Information and talk to your doctor. You can also visit www.serostim.com. Serostim® is available by prescription only.

Please see Consumer Brief Summary of Serostim® on following page. serostim.com/info6 monday, september 9 Every 1212 secondsseconds someone in Innovation Partnership Community the world is infected with HIV

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GLD320_USCA_SpreadAd_Prepped_r2.indd 1-2 7/17/13 11:08 AM FIGHTING FOR THE HEALTHIEST GENERATION Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading women’s health care provider, educator, and advocate and a trusted, nonprofit source of primary and preventive care for women, men, and young people in communities across the United States.

As trusted access points for HIV screenings, Planned Parenthood’s nearly 750 health centers are a critical gateway to additional HIV care. Each year, Planned Parenthood serves nearly three million patients and provides 680,000 HIV tests.

Planned Parenthood is proud to be a partner of this years USCA. To learn more, visit Planned Parenthood at our booth or come to our sessions:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 AT 8:30AM Preparing for ACA Implementation: Perspectives from Planned Parenthood

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 AT 8:30AM The Treatment Cascade: Women of Color & the Role of Women’s Health Centers

Call: 1-800-PLAN or visit www.plannedparenthood.org

Monday, September 9

SESSIONS-AT-A-GLANCE Practical Use of Economic Modeling and Decision Making to Advance High Impact Prevention (session ID: 794) SEMINARS: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Location Imperial 9, Level 4

Positive Strengths: Building Provider Competencies to Symposium on HIV/AIDS and Employment: Maximizing Meet High Impact Prevention Goals (Session ID:502) Existing Systems of Resources as a Social Determinants monday Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 of Health Intervention (Session ID: 735) Location: Empire B, Level 2 “Sin Verguenza” (Without Shame), a four-part telenovela miniseries tackles Shame and Stigma in the Latino Social Media Strategies for HIV Providers (Session ID: community. (Session ID: 138) 602) Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4

Intrusion or Responsibility: Should Your Local Health From Policy to Practice: Health Reform and HIV and Department Use Surveillance Data for HIV Care Linkage Hepatitis Testing (Session ID: 118) and Retention? (Session ID: 734) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Location: Empire A, Level 2 Improving Community and Venue Based Linkage and Outreach and Enrollment: How the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Retention in Care Programs Utilizing an Electronic Program Will Support and Enroll PLWH in the Affordable Medical Record Database (Session ID: 605) Care Act (Session ID: 739) Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 Location: Empire D, Level 2 Southern Discomfort: Developing and Using HIV Building BLOCS: Laying the Foundation for treatment cascades, and Research-based Advocacy Organizational Change to Build Sustainability (Session ID: Strategies, to Focus Attention and Resources on the 732) Southern HIV Epidemic. (Session ID: 497) Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4

Transitioning from a traditional ASO model to an ASO Sustainability - Considerations for Asian Americans, integrated Medical Center and Pharmacy (in less than 1 Native Hawiians, Pacific Islanders and other Vulnerable year!) (Session ID: 384) Communities of Color (Session ID: 804) Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Location: Strand 13B, Level 2

Enhancing HIV Prevention: An ecological perspective of We Can't End AIDS Until We End the War on Drugs: Drug HIV Risk among American Indians (Session ID: 129) Policy Reform for for HIV Advocates (Session ID: 708) Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Location: Bolden 2, Level 2

An Assembly for People Living with HIV (Session ID: 747) Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

The Balm in Gilead Partner Seminar: In Dialogue: Plenary Luncheon - The Engagement Challenge: Step- Southern Faith Leaders and Persons Living with HIV Up and Lead (supported by Gilead Sciences) (Session (Session ID: 736) ID: 903) Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Location: Celestin Ballroom, 3rd Level

AIDS United Partner Seminar: Prevention Innovation in the South: Efforts to Expanding Syringe Access and SESSION 2: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Naloxone for HIV, Hepatitis C and Drug Overdose Prevention (Session ID: 738) WORKSHOPS Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 An Overview and Status Update of the CDC-Funded PS Writing Successful Applications for High Impact 12-1201 Category C Projects (Session ID: 176) Prevention Grant Opportunities (Session ID: 76) Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Location: Strand 13A, Level 2

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Examining the Potential Impact of Lifting the HIV Entry Using Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model to Ban (Session ID: 561) Increase Patient Retention in Primary Care (Session ID: Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 472) Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 High Impact Prevention: Scaling-up HIV Testing in YMSM/ TG of Color Serving Organizations (Session ID: 583) Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): The Science and Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Experiences with Practical Application (Session ID: 746) Location: Empire C, Level 2 Improving the Engagement Cascade for Women of Color Living with HIV: The CHANGE for Women Program National AIDS Housing Coalition Partner Workshop: HIV/

(Session ID: 47) AIDS Housing Where You Live - What’s Working, What’s monday Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Not and Why: A Community Listening Session (Session ID: 745) Separating Hype from Hope: How to Answer Clients’ Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Questions About HIV Treatment and Prevention Headlines (Session ID: 135) The HIV Treatment Cascade: Now We Know, But What Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Do We Do? (Session ID: 744) Location: Empire D, Level 2 Affordable Care Act & HIV 101 for Beginners (Session ID: 704) Social Network with High Risk AA Women (Session ID: Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 584) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Doing More with Less: Strategic Planning of Integrated HIV and Substance Abuse Prevention Among 18-24 year old Veterans, Ex-Offenders, and College Students in ROUNDTABLES Dallas, Texas (Session ID: 517) Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Issues and challenges faced by LGBTI community in Nepal (Session ID: 215) Under Pressure—How to Change Your Prevention Location: Strand 5, Level 2 Programs in the Era of HIP, NHAS and ACA to Keep Them Relevant (Session ID: 740) Gender-Based Violence and HIV-Positive Women (Session Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 ID: 265) Location: Imperial Boardroom 3, Level 4 Community Engagement in the HIV Planning Process (Session ID: 741) Project IMPACT: HIV Counseling & Testing in Orleans Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Parish Municipal Court (Session ID: 300) Location: Imperial Boardroom 4, Level 4 Linkage to Care on the Same or Next Business Day (Session ID: 25) State-of-the-Art Information on the HIV Treatment Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Guidelines (Session ID: 733) Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Understanding clinical trials and how you can get involved (Session ID: 742) Housing and Employment: Continuous Improvement and Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Collaboration to Maximize Success (Session ID: 262) Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Symposium on HIV/AIDS and Employment: Maximizing Existing Systems of Resources as a Social Determinants of Health Intervention (continued) (Session ID: 735) SESSION 3: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 WORKSHOPS Healthcare Reform and the HIV Community: A model of a local level, collaborative approach to navigate coverage Women’s Inclusion in HIV Clinical Research: Challenges changes (Session ID: 141) and Successes (Session ID: 523) Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Location: Bolden 2, Level 2

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Mass Incarceration, Housing Instability and HIV/AIDS HIV Testing, Engagement, Re-engagement, and (Session ID: 175) Retention in Care and Treatment: Considerations for Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Maintaining the Continuum of Care among Transgender People (Session ID: 305) HIV/AIDS Prevention Research: Exploring Community Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Based Models (Session ID: 475) monday Location:Bolden 4, Level 2 Secretary's MAI Fund for the Care and Prevention in the US Demonstration Project (Session ID: 749) Improving the Informed Consent Process and Retention Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Assessment for Research Study Participants in HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Globally (Session ID: 133) Storytelling Using the Media & Cultural Arts (Stigma Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Project) (Session ID: 821) Location: Imperial 5B, Level 2 Man in the Mirror – Black MSM Navigating “Being the Work” and “Doing the Work” (Session ID: 342) ROUNDTABLES Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 ARTAS and HepTAS: Using the Evidence-Based ARTAS Affordable Care Act and HIV 101, for Beginners (Session Intervention for HIV and Hepatitis Linkage and Retention ID: 710) REPEAT in Care (Session ID: 646) Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Location: Strand 5, Level 2

Implementing Health Care Reform – Lessons Learned New Tools, New Tactics: Findings from a Formative from California (Session ID: 748) Survey Assessing Latinos Awareness and Attitudes Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 around the Rapid Home HIV Test (Session ID: 400) Location: Imperial Boardroom 3, Level 4 Large Scale Community Mobilization Initiatives to Increase Access to HIV Testing and Care in Non-Clinical Lessons learned from an innovative Linkage to Care Settings for African American and Latino Populations model for a collaborative routine testing project in a Non- (Session ID: 403) Clinical Setting in low-income communities. (Session ID: Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 536) Location: Imperial Boardroom 4, Level 4 Testing and Linkage in Non-Clinical Settings: New Tools for Health Departments and Community Based HIV/HCV Patient Navigation with Drug Using Clients: Organizations (Session ID: 293) Advocacy & Empowerment through Care, Coordination & Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Communication (Session ID: 393) Location: Imperial Boardroom 6, Level 4 Zero Feet Away: HIV/AIDS, Unprotected Sex, and Mobile Apps (Session ID: 415) Understanding Readiness for Evaluation and Data Driven Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Decision Making During Times of Change (Session ID: 751) Biomedical HIV Prevention as a Comprehensive Approach Location: Imperial Boardroom 7, Level 4 to Reaching an AIDS Free Generation (Session ID: 432) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Changing Cis-tems: Become A Cultural Competent Service Provider to the Transgender Population (Session Patient Navigation: Streamlining the Linkage to Care ID: 115) Process (Session ID: 568) Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4

Getting Ready for the ACA: Insurance 101 REPEAT (Session ID: 796) Location: Imperial 5C, Level 2

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 maintaining a sustainable public health message. “Sin Verguenza” telenovela was created by AltaMed Health SEMINARS: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Services Corporation, the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in the nation and the third largest HIV/AIDS Positive Strengths: Building Provider Competencies to provider in Los Angeles. Meet High Impact Prevention Goals (Session ID:502)

Presenters: Tim Vincent, California STD/HIV Prevention An Assembly for People Living with HIV (Session ID: 747) Training Center, Oakland, CA Gustavo Campos, California STD/HIV Prevention Training Presenter: Alex Garner, National Minority AIDS Council,

Center, Oakland, CA Washington, DC monday Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Beginner Level: Intermediate This roundtable will be a convening of people living One of the main goals described in the National HIV/ with HIV to discuss and finalize a coalition statement of AIDS Strategy is to focus the prevention efforts on people principles for PLWH for the 21st century. The assembly living with HIV. In order for this goal to be successful, discussion will also include strategies for mobilization of providers are required to build their competency in being PLWH and cultivating a community of PLWH so that we more skilled in understanding the context and challenges can empower the individual, increase health literacy and of living with HIV. Building awareness and skill in such improve quality of life. areas as understanding the impact of HIV-related stigma, HIV status disclosure, treatment and care literacy, and changes to sexual health is critical if we are to support Intrusion or Responsibility: Should Your Local Health the high impact prevention initiative. Positive Strengths Department Use Surveillance Data for HIV Care Linkage is a training curriculum for providers designed to build and Retention? (Session ID: 734) competencies in these areas in order to ultimately improve engagement in prevention and care at all levels. This Presenters: workshop will describe the tenets of the training and Moderator: David Evans, Project Inform, San Francisco, provide recommendations for strengthening the provider CA force in meeting the needs of HIV positive clients. Panelists: Daniel Montoya, National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC Leisha McKinley-Beach, Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, “Sin Verguenza” (Without Shame), a four-part telenovela CA miniseries tackles Shame and Stigma in the Latino Jane Herwehe, Lousiana State University, New Orleans, LA community. (Session ID: 138) Julia Dombrowski, King County Department of Public Health, Seattle, WA Presenters: Hilda Sandoval, PhD, MFTI and Natalie Location: Empire A, Level 2 Sanchez, AltaMed Health Services Corp, Los Angeles, CA Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Level: Intermediate Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Intermediate In November 2012, Project Inform convened a think tank to deal with one of the most timely issues confronting Telenovela web-series titled “Sin Verguenza” was created HIV advocates—whether, when and how public health to increase awareness on HIV in the Latino community and departments may used collected laboratory data encourage routine HIV testing. The bilingual web-series submitted to actively seek out people with HIV who was used as a mechanism to address stigma, shame, and have been lost to care and bring them back into care. perceived HIV/AIDS risk factors in the Latino community. Approaches for this active use of data range from Attendees of this seminar will learn the process of contact with health care providers to the use of disease developing the telenovela web-series addressing key intervention specialists to track people down in their public health issues; learn how culturally appropriate homes. These approaches come with the potential for videos can be effective in educating the Latino community risks of breach of privacy and the increase of stigma and of risks to HIV infection and the importance of HIV Testing; discrimination. and discuss the impact that videos and video sharing sites have in reaching a broad Latino audience while

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At the Think Tank, community advocates and public Transitioning from a traditional ASO model to an health officials universally agreed that these activities are integrated Medical Center and Pharmacy (in less than 1 sufficiently promising that they should be explored, but year!) (Session ID: 384) that public health departments should start by engaging with people with HIV, community advocates and other Presenters: William Hardy, AIDS Resource Center Ohio, stakeholders. Moreover, the Think Tank participants have Dayton, OH monday issued a list of recommendations for how to do meaningful Peggy Anderson, AIDS Resource Center Ohio, Columbus, stakeholder and engagement as well as policies and OH procedures to minimize harm from care linkage and Anna Wuerth, AIDS Resource Center Ohio, Columbus, OH retention activities. Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Track: Organizations and Change Management This panel discussion will be led by a representative from Level: Advanced Project Inform and include two community advocates who were present to share their thoughts about these issues and two public health workers who have ongoing care This session aims to help traditional AIDS Service linkage and retention programs. Organizations (ASO) identify methods of diversifying revenue streams in order to become more sustainable and Attendees of this panel discussion will: resilient to fluctuations in grant funding. AIDS Resource Center Ohio will outline the revenue generating programs 1. learn how data is being actively used for care linkage it has implemented including: a full-service pharmacy, and retention; primary HIV care, HIV specialty care, behavioral health 2. learn about the ethical concerns and potential benefits therapy, and onsite laboratory services. Participants will and harms of these programs; leave the session with a better understanding of how 3. learn about recommendations for stakeholder to develop a business plan that accurately accounts for engagement and best practices; and staffing needs, finances and regulatory requirements 4. be able to confidently take this issue home to their related to opening an integrated Medical Center and own jurisdictions and begin or continue a fruitful dialogue Pharmacy. Participants will also gain an understanding within their communities and with their local public health of the benefits that patients and direct service staff officials. experience as a result of developing integrated onsite services.

Building BLOCS: Laying the Foundation for Organizational Change to Build Sustainability (Session ID: Enhancing HIV Prevention: An ecological perspective of 732) HIV Risk among American Indians (Session ID: 129)

Presenters: Tamara Combs and Le’Rosa Gray, National Presenters: Cynthia R. Pearson, Indigenous Wellness Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC Research Institute University of Washington, Seattle, WA Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Annie Belcourt, Department of Pharmacy Practice Track: University of Montana, Missoula, MO Level: Melissa Walls, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN The only constant is change! In order to meet the Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 changing needs of a demanding world, organizations must Track: Treatment and Research learn to navigate change and efficiently, frequently and Level: Intermediate cost-effectively. This session will provide an overview of the Building Leadership for Organizational Change and This panel contributes to the U.S. conference of AIDS Sustainability program and address the skills, the best theme of “increasing the strength and diversity of the strategies for addressing change, and how leadership community-based response to the AIDS epidemic” impacts organizational change. through reports of community-informed empirical studies designed to enhance HIV prevention research locally and globally. All 3 presentations involve drawing on the perspectives of participants from tribal communities to illuminate opportunities and barriers related to HIV prevention science involving American Indian and Alaskan Native populations. Two of the presentations represent

56 Monday, September 9 an in-depth look at modifiable risk and protective The South has been a relatively slow adapter of syringe factors – the effects of trauma and place on HIV risk. access as the most effective and well-researched methods Recommendations are identified through a strength-based of HIV prevention among injection drug users (IDUs) approached. The third presentation provides preliminary as a new prevention strategy. But there are new and qualitative data on barriers and facilitators of health care ongoing efforts to take a look at the issue, not only utilization among homeless American Indians, including among politicians but among health, law enforcement deliberate emphasis on factors related to HIV risk. and religious authorities. The session will share strategies to establish and expand syringe access and The broad appeal of this panel is its presentation of overdose prevention in the South (with lessons for places investigative models for informing prevention science throughout the U.S.) and the tools and resources to health care delivery and messaging procedures and engage local authorities. monday policies through empirical examination and inclusion of community experiences and expectations. Writing Successful Applications for High Impact Prevention Grant Opportunities (Session ID: 76) The Balm in Gilead Partner Seminar: In Dialogue: Southern Faith Leaders and Persons Living with HIV Presenters: Stephen Fallon, PhD, Skills4, Ft Lauderdale, FL (Session ID: 736) Rafaele Narvaez, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Presenter: Rev. Dr. Pernessa C. Seele, The Balm in Gilead, Track: Organizations and Change Management Richmond, VA Level: Advanced Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Track: Retention in Care, Primary Care and Viral Supression The CDC’s High Impact Prevention strategy changed the Level: Beginner funding landscape for non-profit agencies. Simply cutting and pasting paragraphs from past grant applications will The Balm In Gilead presents an opportunity for dialogue not win new funding. Participants in this hands-on seminar to discuss the role of faith communities in the Southern will see actual grant narrative samples (agencies’ names Regions of the United States in ending the AIDS epidemic; removed), including some that won new HIP grant awards, the spiritual needs of person living with HIV; spiritual and and some that did not convince readers they are prepared theological applications for addressing the AIDS epidemic to deliver newly prioritized prevention and linkage at the local church level and what is needed to dismantle services. By the conclusion, participants will be able to AIDS Stigma so that available interventions will be identify the traits that distinguish stronger from weaker successfully and widely utilized by individuals without fear applications. An inspiring story will show how even young of stigma by family, church and community. agencies can compete successfully with careful writing. This session will take the anxiety-causing mystery out of the grant writing process by giving participants tools AIDS United Partner Seminar: Prevention Innovation they need to compete in the new High Impact Prevention in the South - Efforts to Expanding Syringe Access funding arena. and Naloxone for HIV, Hepatitis C and Drug Overdose Prevention (Session ID: 754) Symposium on HIV/AIDS and Employment: Maximizing Presenter: William McColl, AIDS United, Washington, Existing Systems of Resources as a Social Determinants DC of Health Intervention (Session ID: 735) Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention Presented by the National Working Positive Coalition, Level: Advanced the CHANGE Coalition & the National Minority AIDS Council In December 2011, Congress restored the 20 year ban on Location: Empire B, Level 2 the use of federal funding for syringe exchange after a two Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral year hiatus. This interactive panel presentation will review Suppression current efforts in the South to implement syringe access prevention and naloxone access programs.

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Level: Beginner Track: High Impact Prevention Note: Session will last until 4pm. Level: Intermediate

This Symposium will center on employment (status, rate Community-based organizations have taken to social and service needs) as a key Social Determinant of Health media sites as a means to reach their constituents in the (SDH) of people living with HIV/AIDS, with an exploration fight against HIV/AIDS, but how do we develop successful monday of potential local (New Orleans, Baton Rouge), state social media strategies in a resource-constrained (Louisiana) and national level models of synergistic cross- environment? Attendees will learn how to build social sector coordination of services to reduce health disparities media and engagement strategies for their organizations and improve individual and public HIV/AIDS health and programs, including developing a social media team, outcomes. integrating social media across an organization, and how to evaluate social media efforts. Presenters will provide A primary goal of the Symposium is to create robust case studies from their own organizations as well as other networking across disciplines and service systems CBOs. to improve the economic and personal wellbeing of people living with HIV/AIDS. Key stakeholders invited to participate include HIV/AIDS health and social Improving Community and Venue Based Linkage and support service providers, vocational rehabilitation and Retention in Care Programs Utilizing an Electronic workforce development professionals, benefits specialists, Medical Record Database (Session ID: 605) researchers, policy makers, employers, advocates and people living with HIV/AIDS. Presenters: A. Toni Young, Beth Tadesse, Gary Fulwood, Community Education Group, Washington, DC Discussion will focus on integration of employment in Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 the HIV/AIDS continuum of care and prevention in the Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care context of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Definition Level: Advanced of stakeholder roles and the creation of local, state and national partnerships will be proposed, to increase access This seminar will focus on Community Education Group to job training, education and employment services and (CEG)’s counseling, testing, and referral (CTR) staff, referral opportunities for people living with HIV/AIDS. and linkage staff, and management staff identified a problem with linking and ensuring that clients diagnosed The morning and afternoon sessions of the Symposium preliminary reactive through rapid HIV testing were linked will illuminate the strategic roles that employment services to and remained engaged in care with partner care and play addressing critical needs of people living with HIV/ treatment providers using the traditional method of AIDS, particularly those with disproportionate experience offering preliminary reactive diagnosed clients referrals to of poverty, unemployment and underemployment, such care and treatment services. Our overall linkage to care as young MSM, people of color, homeless or unstably rate for Individuals diagnosed preliminary reactive through housed individuals, transgender women of color, people rapid HIV testing was under 5% using a passive referral with disabilities, survivors of intimate partner and sexual approach. In response to this issue CEG developed violence, people with criminal records, and members and implemented an intensive linkage strategy in order of immigrant, refugee and migrant groups. Effective to ensure that clients being diagnosed as preliminary practices, resources and research findings will be reactive through rapid HIV testing were being linked to highlighted through interactive discussion among panelists and remained in HIV care and treatment to obtain optimal and Symposium attendees. health outcomes and achieve viral suppression through initiation and adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and integrated an electronic medical record database to Social Media Strategies for HIV Providers (Session ID: facilitate linkage and retention in care activities. 602) As a result of this aggressive strategy and existing Presenters: David Stupplebeen, Asian & Pacific Islander relationships with care and treatment providers CEG was Wellness Center, San Francisco, CA able to link or confirm that 107 of 116 (93%) preliminary Mathew Rodriguez, TheBody.Com, New York, NY reactive diagnosed clients between January 2012 and Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 December 2012. These numbers indicate a dramatic increase in our ability to link clients to or confirm that clients are receiving care and treatment services than we were capable of before using this more intensive linkage

58 Monday, September 9 to care and treatment strategy. CEG has also been able Practical Use of Economic Modeling and Decision Making to document a sustained viral suppression 6 month follow to Advance High Impact Prevention (Session ID: 794) up rate of 72% which exceeds a DC comparison group in a paper published DC Department of Health (DOH) and Presenters: George Washington University (GWU) that experience a Charles Collins, Tim Green, Cynthia Lyles, David Purcell, 57% viral suppression rate. Stephanie Sansom and Hank Tomlinson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Andrew Forsyth, Miguel Gomez and Oskian Kouzouian, Southern Discomfort: Developing and Using HIV Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, treatment cascades, and Research-based Advocacy Department of Health and Human Services, Washington,

Strategies, to Focus Attention and Resources on the DC monday Southern HIV Epidemic. (Session ID: 497) Randy Mayer , Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA Presenters: Blake Rowley and Isaiah Webster, III, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDs Directors, Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Washington, DC Track: High Impact Prevention Carolyn McAllaster, Susan Reif and Sharon DeCuir, Level: Intermediate Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI), Durham, NC Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 One of the key principles of high impact prevention (HIP) Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral is using HIV prevention resources in such a way to have Suppression the biggest impact possible for our prevention investment. Level: Intermediate As the number of prevention options has increased, how to choose which options to fund and at what levels has Seminar leaders, including representatives from been challenging. This has led to a number of local and the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS national efforts to use cost and efficacy data to develop Directors (NASTAD), Southern Health Departments economic models and processes to help guide decision and the Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative (SASI), making. This seminar will highlight a number of these will lead an interactive session focused on developing efforts. and using research to support policy and advocacy goals aimed at garnering resources for effective HIV First, we will discuss the process that CDC used to prevention strategies and linkage to and retention in decide which evidence-based sexual and injection risk care interventions in the South. The seminar will first reduction behavioral interventions to prioritize in the discuss how health departments in the South have era of HIP. Next, we will discuss HIV RAMP, a project developed their own population specific HIV Treatment led by HHS Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Policy, cascades, and further discuss how health departments in partnership with the CDC and the Office of National have used treatment cascades to support programming, AIDS Policy, to pilot a resource allocation modeling tool modeling, and best practices to link and retain people that could be used by health departments to identify in care. Seminar leaders will discuss the successful the optimal mix of prevention interventions to avert and on-going collaboration between the SASI research the greatest number of HIV infections; to develop a team, HIV advocates and the HIV community to garner technical assistance protocol to assist jurisdictions with increased attention and resources for the South that will implementing the tool, and to develop on online version be necessary to meet the goals of the National HIV/ of the tool. Finally, several health departments will talk AIDS Strategy (NHAS). The discussion will also include about their experiences with modeling, from gathering takeaways from the successful advocacy that resulted in data to put into a model, to how they used the results the CDC Care and Prevention in the United States (CAPUS) of the modeling to inform decision making. The health grants and the White House Office of National AIDS Policy departments will highlight both opportunities as well as (ONAP) driven Southern Strategy Summit. Facilitators will challenges they have experienced. Significant time will engage seminar participants in developing future research be allocated for audience input, questions, and discussion agendas and strategies to support advocacy for Southern about experiences with economic modeling and decision resources. making.

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From Policy to Practice: Health Reform and HIV and insurance coverage is paramount to the success of the Hepatitis Testing (Session ID: 118) Affordable Care Act. Leveraging support from existing HRSA programs can compliment the newly created Presenters: Carl Schmid, Deputy, The AIDS Institute, hotlines, websites, and certified application counselor Washington, DC and navigator programs to improve access to healthcare Lindsey Dawson, The AIDS Institute, Washington, DC coverage enrollment through Medicaid or the Marketplace monday Pascal Wortley, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and offer additional information regarding eligibility, plan (CDC), Atlanta, GA options, and premium tax credits. Tina Penrose, Mid-Atlantic AETC in Philadelphia, This HAB-led workshop will provide an overview of Philadelphia, PA the complimentary role that the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Amy Killelea, National Alliance of State and Territorial Program, and other HRSA programs, are playing to reach AIDS Directors (NASTAD), Washington, DC out to consumers to help them understand the importance Ryan Clary, National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), of enrolling in new health coverage options. The Rohnert Park, CA workshop will explore how existing HRSA resources can be Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 utilized to enroll clients into healthcare coverage programs Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care through Medicaid expansion or private coverage via the Level: Intermediate Marketplace.

In order to meet the three goals of the National HIV/ AIDS Strategy and see an end to AIDS in the United ASO Sustainability - Considerations for Asian Americans, States, everyone who is HIV positive must be made aware Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and other of their status through HIV testing. Implementation of Vulnerable Communities of Color (Session ID: 804) the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will dramatically increase access to health coverage and can potentially increase HIV Presenters: Jacob Smith Yang, Asian & Pacific Islander testing. This seminar will provide an update on what the American Health Forum, San Francisco, CA ACA will mean for expanding HIV testing both in terms Sapna Mysoor, MPH, Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness of coverage and cost sharing. The session will examine Center, San Francisco, CA the role of the United States Preventative Services Task Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Force (USPSTF) and payers of preventive services including Track: Organizations and Change Management Medicare, Medicaid and Private insurance. The audience Level: Intermediate will hear from a range of perspectives including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), private Economic challenges, the implementation of health insurers, from an individuals working to implement HIV care reform, and a changing HIV prevention and testing reimbursement practices in the field, and from the service provision context—including the Centers for National Association of State and Territorial AIDS Directors Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) High Impact (NASTAD) about survey work on coverage of testing by HIV Prevention initiative—have significant ramifications health departments. While its main focus will be on HIV for the strategic decision-making and sustainability testing, other preventative services, including screening for of HIV prevention and care efforts across the country. Hepatitis will also be considered in terms of coverage and AIDS service organizations (ASOs), particularly for those reimbursement. targeting vulnerable communities of color, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPIs) are presented with unique challenges. What Outreach and Enrollment: How the Ryan White HIV/AIDS do we know about the emerging context and how ASOs Program Will Support and Enroll PLWH in the Affordable will need to rethink and retool to continue their HIV/AIDS- Care Act (Session ID: 739) related work? How can ASOs working in communities of color continue work that is sustainable and makes an Presenter: Dr. Laura Cheever, Associate Administrator, impact? Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Rockville, MD This three-hour seminar is divided into two parts. The Location: Empire D, Level 2 first hour-and-a-half is an overview of the shifting HIV/ Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral AIDS prevention and service delivery context, including a Suppression presentation of results and findings of a survey result on Level: Beginner ASO sustainability conducted by the APIAHF, followed by questions and discussion. The second hour-and-a-half Increased enrollment of eligible clients into new health builds on this overview, providing case studies of AA

60 Monday, September 9 and NHPI ASOs which have planned and implemented Join us for a dynamic plenary luncheon featuring a new significant changes to meet these challenges. A planning generation of leaders that is embracing the engagement framework for organizations and programs contemplating challenge and stepping up to drive the movement to end these challenges will be shared, followed by participant HIV. questions and discussion.

SESSION 2: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM We can't end AIDS until we end the war on drugs: drug policy reform for HIV advocates (Session ID: 708) WORKSHOPS

Presenters: Laura Thomas, Drug Policy Alliance, San An Overview and Status Update of the CDC-Funded PS monday Francisco, CA 12-1201 Category C Projects (Session ID: 176) Yolande Cadore, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Kenyon Farrow, New Orleans, LA Presenter: John Beltrami, Centers for Disease Control and Hadiyah Charles, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Prevention, Atlanta, GA Location: Bolden 2, Level 3 Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention What are the drug policy reform issues moving in the U.S., Level: Beginner and how can HIV advocates and providers be involved? What is the impact of the drug war on the HIV epidemic? In August 2011, CDC released its High-Impact Prevention How is mass incarceration linked to the racial disparities in (HIP) approach to decrease the number of new HIV HIV? How is the drug policy reform landscape changing infections in the United States. In March 2012, CDC in the U. S., and what does it mean for people living with began funding 30 health departments to conduct non- HIV? Can we end HIV/AIDS without ending the war on research HIP-consistent demonstration projects under drugs? Topics: policing & surveillance, mass incarceration, Category C of its PS 12-1201 funding announcement. medical marijuana and marijuana legalization, syringe Grantees are required to conduct and evaluate a project access and supervised injection services, criminalization of that addresses at least one of the following Focus Areas: HIV, drugs, and sex work. linkage to HIV medical care and retention in care; use of surveillance data for programmatic purposes; innovative 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm HIV testing; structural, behavioral, or biomedical interventions; and use of advanced technology. The most Plenary Luncheon - The Engagement Challenge: Step-Up commonly addressed priority populations are persons and Lead (supported by Gilead Sciences) (Session ID: 903) living with HIV, men who have sex with men, transgender persons, and injection drug users. This session will Presenters: Leo Moore, MD, Yale University School of provide an overview and status update of the Category C Medicine Projects. Stephanie J. Brown, Community Health Interventions and Sickle Cell Agency, Inc. Chris Richey and Scott McPherson, The Stigma Project Examining the Potential Impact of Lifting the HIV Entry Phill Wilson, Black AIDS Institute Ban (Session ID: 561) Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 Presenters: Helena Kwakwa, Philadelphia Department of In July 2013, President Obama signed an Executive Order Public Health, Philadelphia, PA creating the HIV Care Continuum Initiative, a directive Rahab Wahome, AIDS Care Group, Sharon Hill, PA to better address the drop-offs along the continuum of Fungisai Nota, AIDS Care Group, Sharon Hill, PA care. Addressing these drop-offs will help PLWH benefit Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 from the advances in science and new healthcare policy – Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection making possible the dream of ending HIV. Level: Intermediate

As leaders, we are called upon to support engagement While the lifting of the HIV entry test ban was based at each step along the continuum. We are also charged on solid humanitarian and public health principles, the with engaging others in the fight. No matter where we unintended consequences of the ban on the HIV epidemic are, whatever we do, everyday we have the opportunity among immigrants remain unexamined. The workshop will to engage people in the care continuum – in prevention, go over the history in HIV testing laws, the lifting of the testing, care and treatment. ban in 2010 and its impact in the local US HIV epidemic in

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a city with a high population of immigrants. Comparisons such as substance abuse prevention services. In this between the prevalence rates before and after the ban will workshop participants will apply the SAMHSA strategic be discussed. prevention framework to case studies, and gain the basic skills required to successfully and sustainably identify, approach, and collaborate with new partners to High Impact Prevention: Scaling-up HIV Testing in YMSM/ deliver integrated HIV and substance abuse services to monday TG of Color Serving Organizations (Session ID: 583) pinpointed locations and newly prioritized populations, specifically re-entering combat Veterans, ex-offenders, and Presenters: Dr. Robert Swayzer III, Centers for Disease college students (vocational, 2- and 4-year colleges). This Control, Atlanta, GA will be an interactive session which will include a didactic Dr. Chandra R. Felton, Centers for Disease Control, presentation as well as audience participation through Atlanta, GA group review of case studies, preparation of an action plan Renata Ellington, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA identifying creative new partnerships, and then presenting Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 the The 2-Minute Elevator Speech. Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Intermediate Improving the Engagement Cascade for Women of Color In 2011, CDC funded 34 community-based organizations Living with HIV: The CHANGE for Women Program to provide HIV prevention services to young men who (Session ID: 47) have sex with men and young transgender (YMSM/ YTG) people of color and their sexual partners through Presenters: Erin Falvey, Ph.D, Shannon Hansen, MSW, Jay Funding Opportunity Announcement PS11-1113. Funded Conner, organizations were required to scale-up HIV testing Martha Zarate, Christie’s Place in San Diego, CA activities for the population and to provide comprehensive Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 services for HIV positive and high risk negative individuals, Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care with a primary focus on linkage to care. With funding from Level: Intermediate CDC, organizations conducted 11,159 HIV tests during the first year, with 400 newly identified confirmed HIV- CHANGE for Women is an evidence-based, gender positive individuals with an overall seropositivity rate of responsive program aimed at strengthening the 3.7% (as self-reported in their annual progress reports). engagement cascade for HIV positive women of color. This workshop will share innovative practices, as well as This workshop will outline the strategies utilized by challenges and barriers, utilized by the grantees to recruit CHANGE for Women in order to address the complex and retain clients in their HIV testing programs. barriers that prevent HIV positive women of color from optimal engagement in healthcare and provide participants with specific examples of how these strategies Doing More with Less: Strategic Planning of Integrated were implemented in San Diego County. Through the HIV and Substance Abuse Prevention Among 18-24 year workshop, participants will: 1) gain an understanding old Veterans, Ex-Offenders, and College Students in of the individual, provider, and structural level barriers Dallas, Texas (Session ID: 517) impacting HIV positive women’s successful engagement in HIV healthcare; 2) learn about the strategies specific to a Presenters: Lisa Waitemon-Moses, MPH, Daron Kirven, \ successful mobile/home based patient navigation model Allison Boyd, Edward Jones, and Lesley Bonner, MPH, including integrating peer navigators as key treatment AIDS Arms, Inc., Dallas, TX team members; 3) learn how to engage key stakeholders Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 to develop a coordinated network of HIV care in order Track: High Impact Prevention to create systems-level change; and 4) develop an Level: Beginner understanding of the lessons learned from CHANGE for Women and their implications for improving retention in To rapidly and successfully transition into delivering care and ART adherence including the need for gender high impact HIV prevention, strategic planning and responsive, trauma-informed services which effectively coordination with unique gatekeepers to previously address mental health and substance abuse conditions, untargeted populations is crucial. Equally important history of and current trauma and abuse, low health is diversifying approaches to HIV prevention through literacy, and lack of support services. integrating those services with others that have a direct relationship to the acquisition and transmission of HIV,

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Separating Hype from Hope: How to Answer Clients’ will impact you and your clients. This is a chance to ask all Questions About HIV Treatment and Prevention those questions you’ve been afraid to ask. We’ll give you Headlines (Session ID: 135) an overview of the Affordable Care Act, how it intersects with the Ryan White Program, what to do if your state is Presenters: Stephen Fallon, PhD, Skills4, Ft Lauderdale, FL not expanding Medicaid, and tips for open enrollment. Adrian Naranjo, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Track: Treatment and Research Under Pressure—How to Change Your Prevention Level: Beginner Programs in the Era of HIP, NHAS and ACA to Keep Them Relevant (Session ID: 740)

Over the past two years, headlines have trumpeted monday exciting headlines about advances in HIV treatment and Presenters: Jean Redmann, NO/AIDS Task Force, New prevention. But some of those headlines also trigger Orleans, LA myths that undercut efforts to end HIV. Your clients Robin T. Kelley, PhD, National Minority AIDS Council, and community members may have many questions, Washington, DC and just as many misinterpretations about what these Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 headline discoveries mean to them personally: “Since HIV Track: High Impact Prevention treatment stops transmission, we don’t need condoms Level: Intermediate anymore, right?”, “What’s the difference between PrEP, PEP, and vaccines?”, “A baby was cured of HIV, and some This will be an interactive skills-building session in which guy was cured a few years back. Doesn’t that means participants discuss their thoughts about the complexity of everyone will be cured soon?”, “I hear that there’s a transformative change. As stated by change leaders, this one-minute HIV test out there. Does that mean I can find type of transformational change or “’transformation’ is out my status in one minute?”, “I read that Australian a new and challenging type of change that has emerged, researchers are very close to the cure. I was going to and it is by far the most prevalent and complex type of start treatment, but shouldn’t I wait for this cure instead change in organizations today. Transformational change of taking the treatment now?”, “I hear bee pollen kills involves a number of very critical and unique dynamics HIV. Should I take honey as a supplement?” and “Why that demand a new leadership perspective, skill, and are young gay guys seeking to become HIV infected?” style.” This workshop will review the information on this This workshop will provide participants with the tools to form of change and offer tips from lessons learned on identify the myths and misinterpretations behind each of how to continuously provide services in the midst of these major HIV headlines. You’ll be able to explain with tumultuous shifts in the environment, including HIP, NHAS, cultural and linguistic competence the real meaning. The the Continuum of Care and the new HIV prevention workshop will close with a game show activity, challenging funding and resource environment. participants to convey the correct information in the most memorable and least judgmental way that will serve their Participants from small, medium and large organizations target population. will learn to use polls and data to calculate concrete options for sustainability. At the conclusion of the session, representatives from various types of organizations or Affordable Care Act & HIV 101 for Beginners (Session ID: groups, no matter the size, will leave with tools and ideas 704) of how to use their own program data to moderate their changing world. Presenters: John Peller, AIDS Foundation of Chicago Malinda Ellwood, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School and Treatment Access Expansion Project Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Level: Beginner

Don’t know the difference between Medicaid and the marketplace? Not sure where to start when enrollment begins in just a few weeks? You’re not alone! Come to this session to learn the basics of health reform and how it

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Community Engagement in the HIV Planning Process Understanding clinical trials and how you can get (Session ID: 741) involved (Session ID: 742)

Presenters: Joan Llanes and Reginald Davis, National Presented by the National Minority AIDS Council, Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC Washington, DC Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 monday Track: High Impact Prevention Track: Treatment and Research Level: Intermediate Level: Beginner

Community engagement refers to the development and What is a clinical trial? What are the ethics involved in maintenance of relationships with targeted community running and being part of a clinical trial? How much of an stakeholders (individuals, entities, and representatives impact do clinical trials have on HIV treatment? of population groups) that need to be a continuing part of HIV planning process. During this session we will describe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthcare Reform and the HIV Community: A model of (CDC) expectations for community engagement as stated a local level, collaborative approach to navigate coverage in the July 2012 HIV Planning Guidance. This session will changes (Session ID:141) provide concise information on community engagement, including theory, commonly used definitions, best Presenters: Michaela Hoffman, San Francisco HIV Health practices and provide examples of effective approaches Care Reform Task Force, San Francisco, CA to community engagement including: roles for the PPGs, Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, San Francisco AIDS HDs, and collaborating individuals and organizations; and Foundation, San Francisco, CA a suggested implementation process with steps. Anne Donnelly, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Track: Organizations and Change Management Linkage to Care on the Same or Next Business Day Level: Intermediate (Session ID: 25) In this session we will describe the ways in which Presenters: Steven Saunders, New Jersey Department of uninsured HIV+ persons, in particular recipients of Ryan Health, Trenton, NJ White Services, will likely be impacted by health care Loretta Dutton, New Jersey Department of Health, reform implementation. Additionally we will explore Trenton, NJ how San Francisco is preparing for the secure and safe Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 transition of PLWH from currently funded HIV services Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care into broader systems of care as the Affordable Care Act is Level: Intermediate implemented and how this process and the tools utilized in San Francisco can be applied to other locations. In the era of Treatment as Prevention, linking PLWH to HIV care where they may receive ARV therapy has become a primary focus of HIV prevention efforts in New Jersey. Use Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): The science and of a rapid-rapid testing algorithm and placement of HIV experiences with practical application (Session ID: 746) Prevention Patient Navigators in NJ’s highest volume HIV clinics to provide concierge service for newly diagnosed Presenters: Dawn Smith, Centers for Disease Control and PLWH make linkage to care on the same or next business Prevention, Atlanta, GA day possible. Navigators also re-engage PLWH lost to Charles Gonzalez, New York State Department of Health/ care, offer walk-in testing services and provide Partner AIDS Institute, Albany, NY Services to HIV clinic patients. Local Linkage collaborations Alex Gonzalez, Fenway Health Center, Boston, MA have been formed across New Jersey so that Navigators Location: Empire C, Level 2 work with CBOs for initial referrals and to assist in locating Track: High Impact Prevention those lost to care. In 10 months, of 536 tests provided by Level: Intermediate Navigators, 18% were positive, 95% of whom were linked to care on the same or next business day; 479 total PLWHs In the past 4 years, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), has were linked to care. been shown to be effective for high risk men who have sex with men (MSM), heterosexuals, and for injection drug users. For the 1st time in 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for daily use by uninfected

64 Monday, September 9 adults to help prevent the sexual acquisition of HIV, a drug community health organization in New York City) such as that has been commercially available as an HIV treatment creating patient registry, establishing a team that consists since 2004. of a Medical Assistant, Patient Navigator, and Medical Provider to actively engage patients who are or at risk for For some individuals at high risk for HIV infection, PrEP being out of care, conducting follow-up phone calls, will may represent a much-needed additional prevention be presented to show the application of QI techniques in method intended to be used in combination with other Primary Care setting and to demonstrate the importance methods to reduce the risk of getting HIV infection. If it is of employing CQI in order to implement a successful delivered effectively and targeted to those at highest risk, retention program. In addition, results that demonstrate PrEP may play a role in helping to reduce the significant the impact of these strategies on retention rate will be continuing toll of new HIV infections in the United States. presented. monday Now that efficacy has been demonstrated in the research setting, the challenge is to plan and implement PrEP in CQI approach is appealing for many community health real world settings rather than in a research context. organizations and medical providers, as it 1) involves minimal risks, time, and money, 2) minimizes resistance to This session is intended to provide an overview of the change by starting on a small scale, and 3) learns from the science, and experiences with planning for or the use of ideas that work and those that do not. PrEP in clinical settings in the US. The session will open with a review of the science of PrEP--- what’s occurred over the past 4 years and an update on the new studies National AIDS Housing Coalition Partner Workshop: HIV/ that will provide additional information about the safe AIDS Housing Where You Live - What’s Working, What’s and effective use of this prevention tool. Next, a health Not and Why: A Community Listening Session (Session department will provide information on their efforts to ID: 745) support the implementation of PrEP in their jurisdiction. Lastly, a community based organization (CBO) or health Presented by the National AIDS Housing Coalition, center speaker will present their efforts in the practical Washington, DC application of PrEP. Health Department and CBO/ Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 health center speakers will highlight both opportunities Track: Housing as well as challenges they have experienced in the Level: Biginner practical implementation of PrEP. Significant time will be allocated for audience input, questions, and discussion Join HIV/AIDS housing service providers, consumers about experiences with the planning, implementation, and officials to learn about; both successful models and and introduction of PrEP as a clinically-delivered HIV challenges in fulfilling housing’s promise as a powerful prevention service. prevention and healthcare intervention for homeless people with HIV/AIDS. Share how your community is including housing in implementation of the Affordable Using Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model to Care Act and learn about successful models from across Increase Patient Retention in Primary Care (Session ID: the country. Updates on modernization of the Housing 472) Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) formula, sequestration and the status of the Office of HIV/AIDS Presenter: Liza Kasmara, Harlem United, New York, NY Housing merger will be provided. Learn about the latest Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 research findings, including data demonstrating housing is Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral both cost-effective and cost-saving, and how this data can Suppression be used locally to advance HIV/AIDS housing funding and Level: Beginner policy priorities.

The purpose of this presentation is to build attendees’ capacity to establish a CQI project in their own agencies The HIV Treatment Cascade: Now We Know, But What to increase retention in care. Attendees will learn various Do We Do? (Session ID: 744) QI techniques including setting up improvement goal, selecting relevant measures, brainstorming barriers to Presenters: Tim Horn and Coco Jervis, Treatment Action retention, root cause analysis, data collection, testing Group (TAG), New York, NY new strategies using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) method, Location: Empire D, Level 2 and creating a work plan. Concrete examples of retention strategies identified through CQI at Harlem United (a

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Track: Treatment and Research ROUNDTABLES Level: Advanced Issues and challenges faced by LGBTI community in An estimated 1.2 million people are living with HIV in the Nepal (Session ID: 215) U.S., less than 50% of whom are receiving regular care, with only 1 in 4 people infected with the virus believed Presenter: Parsu Ram Rai, Blue Diamond Society, monday to have an undetectable viral load. These and other Kathmandu estimates indicate we¹re still way off from an ³AIDS-free Location: Strand 5, Level 2 generation,² in that serious illness remains a risk for many Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection people living with HIV and the potential of treatment-as- Level: Intermediate prevention has yet to be actualized. The roundtable talk will highlight on the different types What do we need to do to get more people living with of problems being faced by LGBTI in Nepal and the HIV diagnosed, linked to a provider, fully retained in challenges to over such problems in Nepal. care, and maintained on ARV treatment? How can we scale up interventions that have been shown to work, either by researchers or in real-world settings? Will full Gender-Based Violence and HIV-Positive Women (Session implementation of the Affordable Care Act help or hinder ID: 265) our ability to address disparities in key U.S. populations and regions? Presenter: Waheedah Shabazz-El, Positive Women’s Network of the United States of America, PWN-USA, Activism to address chasms in the HIV treatment cascade Philadelphia, PA is highly dependent on the expertise and participation of service providers. In this interactive workshop, USCA Barb Cardell, Positive Women’s Network of the United delegates will be encouraged to talk about behavior and States of America, PWN-USA, Boulder CO structural barriers to care and interventions to overcome Kat Griffith, Positive Women’s Network of the United them. We will then synthesize and prioritize common States of America, PWN-US, Edwards, IL themes in order to help develop a research and policy Location: Imperial Boardroom 3, Level 4 advocacy strategy. Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Beginner Community-based organization and clinic-based service providers are strongly encouraged to attend. When addressing HIV among women and girls, we cannot ignore the detrimental effects of gender-based violence and the cumulative effects of trauma, which lead to Social Network with High Risk AA Women (Session ID: gender-related health disparities. The session will with an 584) overview of current data, followed by an update on the progress of the Federal Interagency Working Group on the Presenters: Marisol Gonzalez, RN, MPH and Saúl I Zepeda, Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence Against Women and Ruth M Rothstein CORE Center, Chicago, IL Girls, and Gender-related Health Disparities”. These brief Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion Track: High Impact Prevention addressing the following topics: increasing involvement Level: Intermediate of community members, including women and girls living with HIV, in efforts to address this intersectional issue The workshop will address the effective implementation of a community based HIV testing intervention, geared towards high risk African American women, through Project IMPACT: HIV Counseling & Testing in Orleans an adaptation of the Social Network Testing Model. Parish Municipal Court (Session ID: 300) The workshop will review the challenges and barriers encountered and strategies employed to successfully Presenter: Anne Burgess, NO/AIDS Task Force, New engage participants in a community setting and link them Orleans, LA into HIV Primary Care. The project, which primarily works Location: Imperial Boardroom 4, Level 4 with participants with a history of substance abuse and commercial sex work, currently maintains a 1% positivity rate and a linkage rate of 90% into HIV Primary Care.

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Track: High Impact Prevention SESSION 3: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Level: Beginner WORKSHOPS This session will be discussing the components of Project IMPACT, our statistics and findings so far, and the issues Women’s Inclusion in HIV Clinical Research: Challenges and challenges of doing HIV testing and prevention work and Successes (Session ID: 523) in a municipal courthouse. Presenters: Annet Davis-Vogel, UPenn HVTU CTU & School of Nursing Center for Health Equality, Philadelphia, Housing and Employment: Continuous Improvement and PA

Collaboration to Maximize Success (Session ID: 262) Allegra Cermak, ACTG, Baltimore, MD monday Sharon Maxwell, ACTG, St. Louis, MO Presenters: Heather Salek, Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 OR Track:Treatment and Research Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Level: Beginner Track: Housing Current barriers to women’s participation in HIV Level: Beginner clinical research prevent the scientific community from understanding how prevention and treatment modalities This presentation will share strategies for developing and will work in this population. Women’s participation in HIV following a standard process that will result in a stronger clinical research is crucial for understanding sex differences connection between supported housing and employment in disease therapy, prevalence and response. The needs for the individuals we serve. Topics for discussion workshop is designed to identify successful engagement will include how to identify steps a client must take to strategies from community-based settings and discuss return to work, and building community partnerships to where and how these inclusive practices and strategies help address housing, medical and employment needs. could be applied in the clinical research environment The advantage of having multiple community stakeholders for greater inclusion of women. In addition, women’s invested in an individual will yield a more unified team inclusion in community-based activities and groups will be approach, and will achieve a greater degree of success in a discussed more broadly, as to highlight areas for potential shorter amount of time. collaboration and applicable practices that can be adopted and incorporated into these respective settings.

State-of-the-Art Information on the HIV Treatment Guidelines (Session ID: 733) Mass Incarceration, Housing Instability and HIV/AIDS (Session ID: 175) Presenters: Alice Pau Presenters: Ginny Shubert, Shubert Botein and Associates, John Barrett Kali Lindsey, National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, Kevin Carmichael DC Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Bryan Jones, Advocate, Columbus, OH Track: Treatment and Research Christine Campbell, Housing Works, Washington, DC Level: Advanced Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Track: Housing This session will provide a forum to learn the latest version Level: Intermediate of the HHS HIV treatment guidelines. Participants will learn about recommendations on when to treat and what to Over the past three decades in the United States, treat with. overlapping epidemics of mass incarceration and HIV/ AIDS have become disproportionately concentrated among economically disadvantaged persons of color. As a result, a substantial proportion of people living with HIV in the U.S. have spent time in prison or jail, including many with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders that complicate care and contribute to social marginalization. Each year, some 150,000 Americans living with HIV/AIDS are released from a correctional facility. Some are able to return to live with family – but studies

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show that as many as half of HIV-positive inmates leave Location: Strand 10A, Level2 prison or jail with no place to call home and no income to Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection meet basic subsistence needs. Level: Beginner

Formerly incarcerated persons with HIV/AIDS face unique Participants will learn about Community Partner’s global barriers to housing that contribute to social instability long efforts focusing on the informed consent process across monday after return to the community. The resources currently networks, identifying problem areas, generating related available to support housing stability fall short of real cross-network tools and guidance to enhance and update need for all low-income American households living with the current Informed Consent and Informed Consent HIV. The added stigma of criminal justice involvement assessment policy. The session will provide participants further blocks access to work and to the private housing with an understanding of one approach being done to market, and punitive public policies restrict the eligibility improve the informed consent process by discussing of formerly incarcerated persons for public housing, efforts to address illiteracy, mistrust of researchers, income supports and other safety net programs. Stable, language barriers and/or community approval for trial appropriate housing is consistently found to be the participation that often factor into the informed consent greatest unmet need of persons with HIV/ AIDS reentering process. the community from prison and jail, and a history of incarceration has been found to double the risk of subsequent homelessness among low-income persons Man in the Mirror – Black MSM Navigating “Being the living with HIV/AIDS. Work” and “Doing the Work” (Session ID: 342)

Presenters: Carnelius Quinn, ETR Associates, Oakland, CA HIV/AIDS Prevention Research: Exploring Community Alvin G Dawson, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Based Models (Session ID: 475) TX Michael Terry Everett, Harm Reduction Coalition, New Presenters: Charnetta Gadling-Cole, MSW, PhD and D. York, NY Scott Batey, MSW, LCSW, PIP, University of Alabama at Shaune Freeman, South Side Help Center, Chicago, IL Birmingham, Center for AIDS Research, Birmingham, AL Aunsha Hall, Latino Commission on AIDS, New York, NY Georgette King, MPA, HIV Prevention Trials Network, Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Durham, NC Track: Organizations and Change Management Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Level: Advanced Track:Treatment and Research Level: Intermediate Showcasing the unique perspectives of Black MSM Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) Providers across the This workshop will explore two (2) HIV/AIDS community nation, this panel will serve to illuminate the experience of based prevention research models, Black Belt United being a Black MSM in the HIV workforce within our current (Unified to End Disparities) and the HIV Prevention epidemic. Two levels of conversation will be highlighted – Trials Network 065 Test Link to Care Plus (TLC-Plus). cautions and strategies for CBOs based on current lessons For community-based organizations, the challenge of learned and first-hand experience and CBA delivery; combining a range of sources of evidence only increases and lessons of resilience from Black MSM navigating the the importance of exchange and collaboration among workforce of HIV Prevention. stakeholders. Meaningful exchange may also result in community-based organizations valuing and being able to conduct resource rigorous evaluations and, subsequently, Implementing Health Care Reform – Lessons Learned contributing to the prevention of HIV/AIDS. from California (Session ID: 748)

Presenters: Elizabeth Brosnan, Christie’s Place, San Diego, Improving the Informed Consent Process and Retention CA Assessment for Research Study Participants in HIV/AIDS Anne Donnelly, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA Clinical Trials Globally (Session ID: 133) Michaela Hoffman, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, San Francisco, CA Presenters: Russell Campbell, Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC), Seattle, WA Butch McKay, CAB Member-University of Alabama Birmingham, Panama City Beach, FL

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Courtney Mulhearn-Pearson, San Francisco AIDS Testing and Linkage in Non-Clinical Settings: New Foundation, San Francisco, CA Tools for Health Departments and Community Based Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Organizations (Session ID: 293)

Important lessons and strategies have emerged from Presenter: Jillian Casey, National Alliance of State and the implementation of health care reform programs Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC in California that may prove helpful to HIV providers Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 and people with HIV from other states as they prepare Track: High Impact Prevention to move to new systems of coverage in 2014. We are Level: Beginner faced with the challenge of transitioning and integrating people with HIV, their providers and essential Ryan White In response to High Impact Prevention (HIP), and monday engagement services into broader systems of care. In this the recent shift away from Counseling, Testing and session we will present on California’s experience from four Referral (CTR) and increasing emphasis on Test-and- different perspectives: advocacy, program and systems Treat strategies, CDC identified a need for supportive development, medical clinic preparation and community documents to inform the planning and implementation based HIV service organization preparation. We will then of HIV testing and linkage (TLC) programs in non-clinical lead the audience in a broader discussion about how settings. As much of the attention in testing turns these lessons and strategies can help support and inform towards clinical settings, there is a dearth of tools and the work they are doing in their own states to prepare for guidance supporting TLC efforts in non-clinical settings. health care reform implementation. In collaboration with ICF Macro and NASTAD, CDC published a Program Manager’s Guide for Planning and Implementing HIV Testing and Linkage Programs Large Scale Community Mobilization Initiatives to in Non-Clinical Settings in early 2013. The guide Increase Access to HIV Testing and Care in Non-Clinical supports health departments and community based Settings for African American and Latino Populations organizations (CBOs) endeavoring to initiate or refine (Session ID: 403) non-clinical TLC programs and contains a myriad of tips, templates, examples from the field, and adaptable tools Presenters: Jennease Hyatt, U.S. Department of Health to this end. A sister document on evaluation was also and Human Services, Boston, MA developed concurrently to support monitoring of goals Angelica Ramirez, U.S. Department of Health and Human and objectives implementation as well as evaluation of Services, New York, NY program effectiveness. At the end of this presentation Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 participants will: 1) understand the content and utility of Track: High Impact Prevention these guides; 2) identify opportunities for strengthening Level: Intermediate their own programs by modeling the examples and utilizing the tools contained in these guides; 3) obtain Nation-wide, communities of color are disproportionately new strategies to approach testing and linkage efforts in affected by HIV/AIDS and are thus a priority population in the community and 4) build a network of other program the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). Large Scale HIV planners, implementers, and evaluators with whom they testing initiatives are an important tool for fighting HIV/ can strategize to support non-clinical TLC programs. AIDS in both the general population and in targeted high- risk groups. The model also aligns with Center for Disease Prevention and Control’s High Impact Prevention Plan. Zero Feet Away: HIV/AIDS, Unprotected Sex, and Mobile To help bring attention and awareness to the need for Apps (Session ID: 415) increased HIV testing, the Regional Resource Network coordinates AIDS service organizations, community based Presenters: Renato Barucco and Luis Freddy Molano, organization, media partners and local health departments Community Healthcare Network, New York, NY to collaborate on a large-scale, geo-targeted HIV testing Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 and awareness events. Join us to lean about leveraging Track: High Impact Prevention partnerships to mobilize community members and increase Level: Intermediate HIV testing in non-clinical settings through coordinated efforts. Authors collected attitudes around HIV/AIDS and unprotected anal intercourse in men who have sex with men (MSM) who meet their sexual partners utilizing location-based networking apps on mobile phones. The number of men who use this technology to meet regular

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or casual sexual partners has been steadily increasing provider appointments. Attendees will learn how to create since 1999. It is vital to collect mobile app users’ attitudes successful linkage without funding for a Patient Navigator around HIV/AIDS and unprotected sex to create targeted and the improvements possible by hiring a Patient prevention initiatives and evaluate existing ones. Navigator who is responsible for the linkage process.

monday Biomedical HIV Prevention as a Comprehensive Approach HIV Testing, Engagement, Re-engagement, and to Reaching an AIDS Free Generation (Session ID: 432) Retention in Care and Treatment: Considerations for Maintaining the Continuum of Care among Transgender Presenter: Michael Ruppal, Executive Director, The AIDS People (Session ID: 305) Institute, Tampa, Florida Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Presenters: Mac McKleroy, Centers for Disease Control Track: High Impact Prevention and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Level: Intermediate Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral The AIDS Institute/AIDS Alliance work, supported by the Suppression Be The Generation (BTG) Bridge Project, a collaboration Level: Intermediate between FHI 360/HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the Legacy Project at the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Transgender communities in the United States are among Coordination (HANC), is to maintain and establish the groups at highest risk for HIV infection, and the relationships with communities most impacted by the usual health care challenges are compounded for this HIV/AIDS epidemic in order to promote awareness, already marginalized population. This session will use the understanding, dialogue and support for biomedical framework of the continuum of care cascade to explore HIV prevention research. The workshop will explore and some considerations that impact HIV testing, diagnosis, provide information on sessions conducted on biomedical linkages to care and treatment, and engagement/re- HIV prevention including but not limited to prevention engagement/retention in care with transgender clients of mother to child transmission, PrEP, microbicides, and identify potential strategies that can be used at Prevention with Positives, HIV vaccines, male circumcision different points along the continuum of care (CDC, 2011). and other strategies to prevent HIV transmission. Participants will learn from the key stakeholders who hosted community forums about what is currently known; Affordable Care Act & HIV 101 for Beginners (Session ID: what is being investigated as part of current or planned 710) REPEAT research and what could be the impact and usefulness of biomedical HIV prevention strategies as communities work Presenters: John Peller, AIDS Foundation of Chicago toward an AIDS free generation. Malinda Ellwood, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School and Treatment Access Expansion Project Patient Navigation: Streamlining the Linkage to Care Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Process (Session ID: 568) Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Level: Beginner Presenters: Joseph Olsen, MPH, NO/AIDS Task Force, New Orleans, LA Don’t know the difference between Medicaid and the Joshua Fegley, LCSW, NO/AIDS Task Force, New Orleans, marketplace? Not sure where to start when enrollment LA begins in just a few weeks? You’re not alone! Come to Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 this session to learn the basics of health reform and how it Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care will impact you and your clients. This is a chance to ask all Level: Beginner those questions you’ve been afraid to ask. We’ll give you an overview of the Affordable Care Act, how it intersects This presentation will explore the benefits of using a with the Ryan White Program, what to do if your state is Patient Navigator to link clients to medical care from not expanding Medicaid, and tips for open enrollment. HIV Testing services: increased linkage to care rate, improved communication among staff, and improved data reporting. The presentation will compare two linkage-to-care strategies used by NO/AIDS Task Force to achieve successful linkage from rapid testing to

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Secretary's MAI Fund for the Care and Prevention in the Location: Imperial 5C, Level 2 US Demonstration (Session ID: 749) Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral Supression Level: Beginner Presenters: Kim Williams and Mesfin Mulatu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA This session will help orient providers and peers to key DeAnn Gruber, Louisiana Department of Health, New health insurance terms and concepts so they are prepared Orleans, LA to evaluate the health plans that will be available in the Carolyn Wester, Tennessee Department of Health, Health Insurance Marketplaces. Nashville, TN Mildred Williamson, Illinois Department of Public Health,

Springfield, IL ROUNDTABLES monday Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention ARTAS and HepTAS: Using the Evidence-Based ARTAS Level: Intermediate Intervention for HIV and Hepatitis Linkage and Retention in Care (Session ID: 646) This workshop will provide an overview of a multi-agency, multi-site demonstration project led by the Division of Presenters: Heather Lusk, Community Health Outreach HIV/AIDS Prevention (CDC), and funded through the Work Project, Honolulu, HI Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative Fund. The CAPUS Sonya Dublin, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health “Care and Prevention in the United States” Demonstration Forum, San Francisco, CA Project (PS12-1210) aims to reduce HIV-related morbidity, Location: Strand 5, Level 2 mortality, and related health disparities among racial Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care and ethnic minorities in eight state health department Level: Intermediate jurisdictions in the United States. An HHS inter-agency federal partnership provides guidance for the project. Challenges with linkage to care and retention in care for persons living with HIV and/or hepatitis C have significant consequences in terms of health outcomes, transmission Storytelling Using the Media & Cultural Arts (Stigma rates, and health care costs. In this roundtable, staff from Project) (Session ID: 821) a community based organization (CHOW Project) and a capacity building assistance provider (APIAHF) will Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 facilitate discussion about use of the evidence based ARTAS linkage to care model for increasing linkage to This will be a session on utilizing storytelling, social media care and retention in care for persons living with HIV and/ and the cultural arts to articulate the experience of young or hepatitis C. Facilitators will draw on their experience people and how they respond to HIV. Some people have using ARTAS for HIV linkage to care as well as adapting taken to blogs, Twitter and the media to express what it ARTAS for hepatitis C linkage to care. During this means to be a young person living with or vulnerable to roundtable, participants will share strategies and solutions HIV. This session will be an opportunity to share ideas and for improving HIV and hepatitis C linkage to care and discuss how the media and cultural arts can impact the will leave with concrete, meaningful next steps for their issues that youth face and help bring about change in their organizations. communities.

Lessons learned from an innovative Linkage to Care Getting Ready for the ACA: Insurance 101 (Session ID: model for a collaborative routine testing project in a Non- 796) REPEAT Clinical Setting in low-income communities. (Session ID: 536) Presenters: Andrea Weddle, HIV Medicine Association, Arlington, VA Presenter: Alan D. Johnson, MPH, AIDS Foundation of Amy Killelea, National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Chicago, Chicago, IL Directors, Washington, DC Location: Imperial Boardroom 4, Level 4 Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Level: Intermediate

The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC), in partnership with two community-based organizations, Making A

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Daily Effort (MADE) and Brother’s Health Collective the importance of their existing data and its utility to them (BHC), provides HIV screening and Linkage to Care as they begin to consider new and different initiatives. services at Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) public aid offices in areas with high prevalence of HIV on the Southside of Chicago and in the South Suburbs. New Tools, New Tactics: Findings from a Formative The project model has proven effective at engaging Survey Assessing Latinos Awareness and Attitudes monday hard-to-reach populations and linking clients to care around the Rapid Home HIV Test (Session ID: 400) with an innovative Linkage to Care model. The Bridge Project created a custom Linkage to Care model called Presenters: Amber Channer, Carlos Maldonado, Daniel the HIV-VIP Program. The program highlights medical Leyva, Gustavo Morales, Emily Klukas and Miriam Vega, homes, access to an HIV medical specialist, and reserved Latino Commission on AIDS, New York, NY appointment times for clients. Location: Imperial Boardroom 3, Level 4 Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Intermediate HIV/HCV Patient Navigation with Drug Using Clients: Advocacy & Empowerment through Care, Coordination & Recently, several new and modified prevention tools have Communication (Session ID: 393) been introduced to the market to provide community members and service providers with additional tools Presenters: Moya Brown, Harm Reduction Coalition, New for reducing new infections. One such tool is the over- York, NY the-counter Rapid Home HIV Test. As 20% of people Location: Imperial Boardroom 6, Level 4 who are infected with HIV do not know that they are Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral positive, additional tools and strategies to help people Suppression become aware of their HIV status is a key step moving Level: Beginner forward. There is little information yet available on Latino community knowledge and attitudes around the rapid This session will discuss useful strategies that health home test. In order to continue to provide effective and human service providers can use to assist HIV/ and meaningful services to diverse Latino communities, Hep-C clients overcome barriers to healthcare access. we conducted a needs assessment to gain a deeper Participants will gain knowledge and skills in HIV and Hep understanding of the awareness, acceptability, availability C prevention, counseling, and retention as well as have and affordability of the rapid home HIV test among 3 an opportunity to share their experiences and challenges groups of Latinos in New York City –gay and bisexual men, in the field. Topics addressed will include: patient needs health ministry coordinators at Latino-serving churches, assessments, harm reduction counseling, providing and the general population. Many concerns from ASO’s supportive referrals, and care coordination. around the home test have centered on the price of the kit as being restrictive those with low income. Additionally, many have concerns about those how test positive in their Understanding Readiness for Evaluation and Data Driven homes and how they will be connected to care. Analyses Decision Making During Times of Change (Session ID: will shed light on these concerns and provide evidence 751) from diverse Latino respondents. This Roundtable will discuss findings in light of innovative program designs that Presenters: Dazon Dixon Diallo, MPH, SisterLove, Atlanta, reflect the current attitudes of Latinos around testing for GA HIV in a home setting. Robin T. Kelley, PhD, National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC Location: Imperial Boardroom 7, Level 4 Track: Level:

This will be an opportunity to address issues and concerns that members have about tools for evaluating their organization’s interventions. It will also be a chance to unpack the terms such as “readiness for evaluation”, “data-driven decision-making“, and “repurposing data”. Participants will leave with a more comfortable sense of

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Changing Cis-tems: Become A Cultural Competent Service Provider to the Transgender Population (Session ID: 115)

Presenters: B. Wade, A.M. and Channyn Parker, Chicago House, Chicago, IL Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Track: Organizations and Change Management Level: Beginner

As service providers, it’s time to embrace the T in the monday LGBT services we provide. The “T” has been silent for too long. Transgender individuals face discrimination in a wide array of settings, including medical, mental health and yes, even with in AIDS Service Organizations as well. Areas of discrimination experienced by someone who is transgender include: housing, employment, education, legal situations and healthcare. If you are transgender, you are four more times likely to live in extreme poverty, more likely to be uninsured, less likely to receive preventive health care, more likely to have attempted suicide and three times more likely to contract HIV than if you were a non-transgender man and nine times more likely compared to non-transgender women. These statistics reveal an urgent need to directly address the gaps in services within our systems of care for transgender individuals. One place to start to correct the injustices and discrimination is by becoming a culturally competent and affirming organization, an ally to the trans-population. Our round table offers participants a chance to engage in discussion around:

• Grow knowledge of trans community’s Resiliency & Challenges • Raise awareness of current Research on trans experience • Improve confidence using Terminology & Definitions • Identify and discuss Creating a Culture of Inclusion at your agency • Discover important Considerations in work with HIV+ transgender people of color

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SESSIONS-AT-A-GLANCE IAPAC Partner Seminar: Highlights from the 8th International Conference on HIV Treatment and SEMINARS: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Prevention Adherence (Session ID: 753) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Women and HIV Prevention Research: How is the HIV Prevention Trials Network Working to Bridge Gaps in AIDS United Partner Seminar: HIV Funding in the World tuesday Research for Women in the United States and Around the of Sequestration (Session ID: 852) World? (Session ID: 373) Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Partner Seminar: Ryan White and the ACA (Session ID: 703) HIV Criminalization -The Impact on the Patient Provider Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Relationship (Session ID: 755) Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Hetrick Martin Institute Presents, The Stars of CHANGE: Effective Youth and Young Adult Prevention Leadership NNAAPC Partner Seminar: Recognizing Native People in Programing in the Kiki House Ballroom Scene (Session ID: the South (Session ID: 756) 88) Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Preparing for ACA Implementation: Perspectives from Laying the Foundation for Transgender Appropriate Planned Parenthood (Session ID: 757) Implementation of High Impact Prevention Strategies Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 (Session ID: 139) Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 The Evolution of the Community Pharmacist: Going Above and Beyond to Support HIV Medication Using the HIV Cascade as a Guide for Developing a Adherence (Sponsored by Walgreens) (Session ID: 758) SYSTEM of Prevention and Care Services (Session ID: 500) Location: Empire A, Level 2 Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Engaging People Living with HIV in a Changing Training Indigenous Personnel in HIV Testing and Environment - Connecting the HIV Community at a Outreach to reach High-Risk African American Crossroads in the Care Landscape (sponsored by Janssen Communities (Session ID: 607) Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP) (Session Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 ID: 759) Location: Empire B, Level 2 The BEACON Project: Combining Intensive Case Management, Peer Advocates, and Community Nursing Black AIDS Institute Partner Seminar: Retooling in a Lost-To-Care Program (Session ID: 488) Bootcamp: Getting Ready for an Affordable Care Act and Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Biomedical Intervention World (Session ID: 770) Location: Empire D, Level 2 The Routinization of HIV Testing in the Inpatient Setting (Session ID: 621) "I'm Positive" Screening and Discussion with Cast and Location: Strand 13 B, Level 2 Experts: An MTV Documentary About What It Means to be Young and HIV-Positive in America Today (supported Recent Incarcerated People to Newly Diagnosed by Gilead Sciences) (Session ID: 805) Individuals: The Outreach Program in Austin (Session ID: Location: Empire C, Level 2 44) Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Ending the HIV Epidemic: Reimagining the Ryan White Program and the National HIV Funding Landscape to Plenary Luncheon: The Fine Art of Patient Conversations Reach Zero (Session ID: 408) with Their Healthcare Providers - An Inside Look into Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 the Importance of Self-Expression (supported by Merck) (Session ID: 904) A New Treatment Paradigm for HIV-HCV Co infection Location: Celestin Ballroom, 3rd Level (Session ID: 752) Location: Strand 11B, Level 2

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SESSION 4: 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Linked to Care: Now What? Motivating Clients Living with HIV to Adhere to Treatment for Longer Life (Session WORKSHOPS ID: 157) Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Good Housing Means Good Health: Advocating for Affordable Housing as High Impact Prevention, Treatment Strategizing and Mobilizing to End the Epidemic (Session and Care for Women (Session ID: 450) ID: 822) Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Location: Strand 12A, Level 2

The Gay Men’s Health Equity Toolkit: A Health Bridging the Cascade: Lessons Learned from the Positive

Department Response to the Epidemic Among Gay Men/ Action Southern Initiative (Session ID: 379) tuesday MSM (Session ID: 495) Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 Healthy Aging with HIV (Session ID: 771) To Build or Not to Build: Are You Really Ready to Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Become a FQHC? (Session ID: 620) Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Beyond Needle Exchange: Getting to Zero for People Who Use Drugs (Session ID: 709) From New England to Hollywood to the Deep South: Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 local responses to the national call for increased access and linkage to HIV care (Session ID: 259) Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 ROUNDTABLES

Improving Linkage to Care with African-American MSM: Stigma Sero’Positive (Session ID: 159) Using a Strength-Based Approach (Session ID: 318) Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 STARSHIPP: Strategies for Those At Risk Seeking High Creating Stronger Outcomes through Greater Impact Prevention & PrEP (Session ID: 539) Collaboration between Programs and Finance (Session ID: Location: Imperial 3, Level 4 240) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Impact of U.S. HIV Criminalization on HIV/AIDS Services and Prevention Provision - What We Can Learn from the An Innovative Approach to Enhance Linkage to Care, British (Session ID: 334) Retention in Care and Viral Suppression for the HIV Location: Imperial 4, Level 4 Infected Community in an Urban Setting (Session ID: 629) Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Understanding Generational Differences: Finding Common Ground for Organizational Success (Session ID: The Role of Employment in HIV Wellness & Recovery 358) (Session ID: 239) Location: Imperial 6, Level 4 Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Treatment, Research and the Latino community (bilingual Ready? Set? Enroll! (Session ID: 706) session) (Session ID: 761) Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Location: Imperial 7, Level 4

How does the HIV workforce foster strengths and Keeping Clients Housed: Applying the Harm Reduction opportunities in greater treatment and limit weaknesses Model to Rent Collection (Session ID: 60) and threats to adherence? (Session ID: 760) Location: Strand 5, Level 2 Location: Strand 11B, Level 2

Advancing High Impact Prevention Through the SESSION 5: 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Implementation of Prevention with Positive Activities (Session ID: 795) WORKSHOPS Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Stressors and mental health challenges faced by immigrant Chinese massage parlor workers in HIV

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prevention (Session ID: 98) Navigating Access and Knowing Your Rights (Session ID: Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 707) Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Using a Participatory Model of Engagement Among Urban Native Communities and HIV Clinical Research PrEP Messaging (Session ID: 762) Sites: A Case Study (Session ID: 347) Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 tuesday Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 NASTAD Partner Workshop- STIGMATIZED: A Townhall Training and Monitoring Testing Sites to Deliver Couples to Address Stigma Impacting Black & Latino Gay Men’s HIV Testing and Counseling for male-male couples Health Equity (Session ID: 772) (Session ID: 364) Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 Location: Strand 10A, Level 2

Matching your Metrics. Meeting Your Social Media Goals ROUNDTABLES (Session ID: 461) Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Health Department Programming and the Changing Landscape of HIV Prevention (Session ID: 625) Testing Connections: The Use of Peer Health Educators in Location: Imperial 3, Level 4 a Social Network Testing Initiative in Prevention programs in South Los Angeles (Session ID: 482) Addressing the Prevention Needs of HIV Positive Young Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Black Men (Session ID: 252) Location: Imperial 4, Level 4 LGBTQ Homeless Crisis in Chicago - Community Response - El Rescate (Session ID: 531) Linking to Care Male Patrons of Bath Houses and Sex Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 Clubs in Los Angeles County (Session ID: 355) Location: Imperial 6, Level 4 Barriers and Risk Factors that Affect Access to Care or Prevention Services: Stories and Strategies from a Panel The HIV & Aging Project: Navigating the Intersection of of HIV+ & HIV- Latino and African-American YMSM HIV & Aging (Session ID: 375) (Session ID: 246) Location: Imperial 7, Level 4 Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Lessons from the Community: Engaging Women in HIV High Impact Leadership: Leadership evocation in Prevention Research Advocacy (Session ID: 345) changing times (Session ID: 267) Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Location: Strand 13B, Level 2

Building your CBO to withstand today’s environment (Session ID: 27) Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4

Boosting HIV Medication Adherence through Innovative Technology: Translating Research to Practice (Session ID: 42) Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4

Everything You Need to Know about Anal Health and HIV (Session ID: 295) Location: Imperial 9, Level 4

HIV and Cancer: How an Academic-Community Partnership Can Identify and Address Organizational Needs in an Emerging Context (Session ID: 357) Location: Strand 12A, Level 2

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 utilizing existing researchers’ sources on how to tap into familiar networks regarding HIV/STI prevention. SEMINARS: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Women and HIV Prevention Research: How is the HIV AIDS United Partner Seminar: HIV Funding in the World Prevention Trials Network Working to Bridge Gaps in of Sequestration (Session ID: 852) Research for Women in the United States and Around the World? (Session ID: 373) Presenters: Ronald Johnson and Donna Crews, AIDS United, Washington, DC Presenter: Georgette M. King, HPTN FHI 360, Durham, NC Location: Strand 12B, Level 2

Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral tuesday Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection Suppression Level: Intermediate Level: Advanced

HIV infection continues to disproportionately burden As the Congress debates Appropriations for the HIV diverse communities of women across the United States domestic epidemic for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 sequestration and around the world, resulting in a critical need for is still in effect. Many Members of Congress and the the development of a multifaceted, international HIV Administration did not think sequestration would go into prevention approach that includes a combination of effect or stay in effect in FY 2014. HIV funding has been behavioral, social, biomedical, and structural interventions. cut, but how does the community continue to advocate During this seminar, presenters will lead an interactive for increased funding for HIV domestic programs in the discussion about the types of HIV research that the HIV future. How does funding the HIV portfolio fit in the larger Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is conducting with health funding portfolio? women here in the United States and internationally. Participants will be encouraged to brainstorm ways in This interactive session will allow for debate and which international studies may be relevant to their local discussion on strategies for communicating with communities, and to consider how program development Members of Congress in the district offices to explain may be influenced by lessons learned through the diversity the importance of increased federal funding for the HIV of research projects that have been conducted with domestic funding so that we can take advantage of this women. moment in time where the end of the epidemic is in our reach.

Hetrick Martin Institute Presents, The Stars of CHANGE: Effective Youth and Young Adult Prevention Leadership Laying the Foundation for Transgender Appropriate Programing in the Kiki House Ballroom Scene (Session ID: Implementation of High Impact Prevention Strategies 88) (Session ID: 139)

Presenters: Aisha Diori and Erica Cardwell, Hetrick Martin Presenters: Jordan Blaza, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Institute (HMI), New York, NY Angeles, CA Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 JoAnne Keatley, MSW and Danielle Castro, CoE for Track: High Impact Prevention Transgender Health, San Francisco, CA Level: Intermediate Mia Humphreys, MSW and Daniel Solis, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA This seminar will present effective methods for Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 implementing a peer driven, sub-culture specific, HIV/ Track: High Impact Prevention STI prevention leadership and empowerment program. Level: Beginner The programming is designed specifically for LGBTQ youth & young adults between the ages of 12-24, who As High-Impact Prevention Strategies are implemented, live in the New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut more community based organizations (CBOs) and Tri-State area who are involved in the Kiki House Ballroom health departments (HDs) are expanding their reach scene. This session will cover aspects of the program to populations at greatest risk for HIV, particularly design, strategies for community engagement via trans women. CBOs and HDs may not have a basic Social Marketing/media outlets and outreach methods. understanding of how to effectively reach and provide Additionally, this session will cover effective strategies for services for trans women. The goal of this training is to provide that foundational information necessary for CBOs

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and HDs to provide services for transgender people in linkage to support services, prevention interventions, rapid an effective and culturally competent manner. A team HIV/HCV testing certification, fundamentals of prevention of experts from AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Center counseling, motivational interviewing, linkage to care, of Excellence for Transgender Health and Children’s treatment adherence counseling, data collection, and Hospital of Los Angeles worked in partnership to design follow up) sessions and in field training alongside CEG the curriculum for this interactive course. This curriculum outreach, screening, linkage and retention in care services. tuesday takes into consideration the critical points of current In 2012 CEG staff and CHAMPS training program knowledge (i.e. existing Trans 101 trainings) and provides participants in concert were able to distribute over supplemental information and activities for CBOs and 300,000 condoms, conduct 8,769 rapid HIV tests with HDs to explore their specific needs as well as that of their 116 preliminary positive diagnosis, conduct 436 rapid communities’. HCV tests with 57 preliminary reactive diagnosis, provide linkage to substance abuse treatment for 120 substance users including 92 linkages to detoxification and in-patient Using the HIV Cascade as a Guide for Developing a substance abuse treatment and 28 linkages to out-patient SYSTEM of Prevention and Care Services (Session ID: 500) treatment, provide 6,718 support service referrals to a variety of supportive services partners, including but not Presenters: David Heal, MSW and Karen Robinson, Office limited to mental health, substance abuse, primary care, of Infectious Disease, Infectious Disease Prevention and STD screenings. In 2012, 116 individuals tested Section, Washington State Department of Health, positive for HIV/AIDS, for a positivity rate of 1.4%; 107 Tumwater, WA (93%) of the preliminary positive diagnosed clients were Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 linked or re-linked to HIV care and treatment services. Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Advanced The BEACON Project: Combining Intensive Case The objective of this presentation is to demonstrate that Management, Peer Advocates, and Community Nursing the HIV cascade provides a template for developing a in a Lost-To-Care Program (Session ID: 488) comprehensive system of HIV prevention and care services that are strategic, effective, and flexibly meet the needs Presenter: Steve Houldsworth, Saint Louis Effort for AIDS, of people with HIV while limiting transmission of the virus. St. Louis, MO To date, much good work has focused on pieces of the Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 puzzle rather than the overall design. This has resulted in Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care a poorly coordinated response to the epidemic. Working Level: Intermediate together we can do better. Since this is a seminar, the session attendees should expect to play an active part in According to the CDC, more than 50% of people living creating a learning environment. with HIV are not in stable medical care. Beyond the obvious individual imperative for life-saving treatment, the growing importance of both ‘treatment as prevention’ and Training Indigenous Personnel in HIV Testing and ‘prevention with positives’ interventions makes increasing Outreach to reach High-Risk African American this percentage a shared goal for all HIV professionals. Communities (Session ID: 607) This seminar will explore one model that has successfully changed these numbers in St. Louis, Missouri. This Presenters: A. Toni Young, Beth Tadesse and Gary participatory session will present data from the first two Fulwood, Community Education Group, Washington, DC years of implementing the BEACON Project, including Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 recommendations for systemic change that have been Track: High Impact Prevention integrated within the region, and then engage attendees Level: Intermediate in a discussion of how the lessons learned from this project can be applied in your region. This seminar focuses on CEG’s CHAMPS Program (Community Health and Medical Personnel Services) that trains indigenous community members (representatives of the at-risk population) to conduct outreach, screen individuals for HIV, and link to care and facilitate retention in care activities. The CHAMPS Program includes fact- based classroom training (trainings include HIV/HCV/SA 101, outreach safety and protocol trainings, referral and

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Engaging People Living with HIV in a Changing Recent Incarcerated People to Newly Diagnosed Environment - Connecting the HIV community at a Individuals: The Outreach Program in Austin (Session ID: crossroads in the care landscape (sponsored by Janssen 44) Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP) (Session ID: 759) Presenter: Jose Munoz, AIDS Services of Austin, Austin, TX Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 Location: Empire B, Level 2 Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care Track: Treatment and Research Level: Beginner Level: Intermediate This presentation will describe how the outreach

Changes in access to healthcare at the federal level will program at AIDS Services of Austin has linked out of care tuesday have an impact on local HIV communities. Communication individuals into medical care by collaborating with other around these changes and their effect on people living agencies in the area. with HIV are increasingly important. Digital, social and mobile channels represent a unique opportunity to bring the HIV community together in an efficient and accessible Ending the HIV Epidemic: Reimagining the Ryan White way, and can be personal, private and even anonymous Program and the National HIV Funding Landscape to if desired. There is great potential for organizations to Reach Zero (Session ID: 408) interact and engage with the people living with HIV/AIDS that they serve, in addition to establishing a strong online Presenters: presence. Janssen Therapeutics is dedicated to helping William McColl, AIDS United, Washington, DC service providers keep clients engaged during this period Ann Lefert, Emily McCloskey and Amy Killelea, of change, and this workshop will explore current and best National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, practices for using new media (digital/mobile) to optimize Washington, DC the ways they can connect with people living with HIV/ Carl Schmid, Bridget Verrette, and Lindsey Dawson, The AIDS. AIDS Institute, Washington, DC Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral The Routinization of HIV Testing in the Inpatient Setting Suppression (Session ID: 621) Level: Advanced

Presenter: Jamie Mignano, the JACQUES Initiative of the With implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland may be able to ensure that most people living with HIV School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD have access to care. Health care reform truly creates an Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 opportunity to end the HIV epidemic. Yet the ACA is Track: Organizations and Change Management about individual access to care - it won’t solve many of Level: Intermediate the public health barriers of the HIV epidemic. Other programs like the Ryan White Program must now fill in In order to identify new infections of HIV and increase the gaps to respond to the health crisis. Health care and access to care for people living with HIV (goals of our political experts will discuss the history of HIV funding, National HIV and AIDS Strategy), the JACQUES Initiative what is happening now (and why). They will also discuss (JI) of the Institute of Human Virology at the University the major changes taking place and ultimately will work of Maryland School of Medicine partnered with the with the audience to come up with big and doable ways Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland to fund the end of the HIV epidemic. Medical Center to implement an initiative to routinize HIV testing and linkage to care for all patients admitted to the Medicine Service. The objectives of this session are to: A New Treatment Paradigm for HIV-HCV Co infection 1) Describe inpatient HIV testing initiative; 2) Present the (Session ID: 752) steps to developing and implementing the program on an organizational level; 3) Discuss lessons learned from Presented by the National Minority AIDS Council, establishing the model; 4) Generate discussion on models Washington, DC for institutional change. Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Track: Treatment and Research Level: Intermediate

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The robust pipeline of new treatments for Hepatitis C in providing PLWHA needed risk reduction education infection will provide an impressive number of drugs and support. Strategies for the development of critical that have proven to be safe and effective. The traditional partnerships between providers, patients and advocates in treatment algorithm will change from PEG-interferon + combatting HIV criminalization will be identified. Ribavirin 24 to 48 weeks to an oral regimen of antivirals. The length of treatment will be shorter and sustain viral tuesday response (SVR) achieved at 12 weeks. This seminar "I’m Positive" Screening & Discussion with Cast and will present a state-of-the art review of the latest HCV Experts: An MTV documentary about what it means to treatment under development. be young and HIV-positive in America today (supported by Gilead Sciences) (Session ID: 805)

IAPAC Partner Seminar: Highlights from the 8th Presenters: Stephanie Brown, Cast Member, “I’m Positive” International Conference on HIV Treatment and Spokesperson, Greater Than AIDS/Empowered Prevention Adherence (Session ID: 753) Otis Harris, Jr., Cast Member, “I’m Positive” Spokesperson, Presented by the International Association of Providers of Greater Than AIDS/Deciding Moments AIDS Care, Washington, DC Derek E. Spencer, MS, CRNP, Executive Director, Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 JACQUES Initiative, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD Level: Beginner Location: Empire C, Level 2 Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral The Conference which took place June 2-4 2013 Suppression addressed successes and challenges in HIV treatment Level: Beginner adherence in various settings and populations; behavioral and clinical aspects of adherence that reflect a variety of I’m Positive is a groundbreaking documentary from MTV HIV treatment and team perspectives; bio-medical HIV developed with the Kaiser Family Foundation and with prevention interventions including PrEP; the implications funding from Gilead Sciences that explores life with HIV of HIV treatment and bio-medical prevention adherence today from the perspective of three young Americans. for the individual, the community and for public health; From the producer of MTV’s 16 & Pregnant and Teen and identify adherence assessment tools and interventions Mom, the special follows Kelly, Otis and Stephanie that can be integrated into patient care and/or prevention through their everyday lives from the challenges they face interventions. to their hopes for the future.

This seminar, which will be presented by IAPAC staff and According to the CDC, one in four new HIV infections conference presenters, will discuss highlights from the occurring in the U.S. today is among a person ages 13-24. conference including promising new approaches, tools About 60% do not know they are infected. According and strategies to support engagement and retention in to a survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, young care. people, especially those of color, are deeply worried about HIV and its impact on their generation. A panel discussion featuring two of the cast members from Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Partner Seminar: I’m Positive following a screening of the film will address HIV Criminalization -The Impact on the Patient Provider strategies for engaging young people in addressing HIV Relationship (Session ID: 755) in their lives and communities, including how I’m Positive may be used in outreach. Presenters: Kimberly Carbaugh and Carole Treston, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Akron, OH J. Craig Phillips PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of NNAAPC Partner Seminar: Recognizing Native People in British Columbia, Vancouver, BC the South (Session ID: 756) Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 Level: Intermediate Presenters: Rachel Bryan-Auker, Michaela Grey and Matt Ignacio, National Native American AIDS Prevention Concerns about criminalization regarding HIV transmission Center, Denver, CO can negatively impact the patient – provider relationship. Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Come hear the results of nurse led research by ANAC Track: High Impact Prevention members that describe how fears about these laws limit Level: Beginner candid dialogue and impede the important role of nurses

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This seminar will focus on the HIV prevention needs of The Evolution of the Community Pharmacist: Going Native people who live in the Southern Region of the Above and Beyond to Support HIV Medication United States. The issues of Federally recognized and non- Adherence (Sponsored by Walgreens) (Session ID: 758) Federally recognized Tribes will be explored. Participants will also engage in a discussion of the impact of Western Location: Empire C, Level 2 religion and traditional approaches to HIV prevention, Track: Treatment and Research treatment and linkage to care. Level: Beginner

In recent years, the role of the community pharmacist has Preparing for ACA Implementation: Perspectives from expanded as it relates to the management of HIV/AIDS

Planned Parenthood (Session ID: 757) and medication therapy. From the use of technological tuesday innovations – such as medication synchronizations – to Presented by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, personalized patient support, culturally-competent Washington, DC pharmacists have embraced this evolution and placed Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 themselves in the middle of HIV/AIDS care. This workshop Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care will explore the ways that community pharmacists provide Level: Beginner support to those living with HIV and strategies to leverage this relationship for improved outcomes. Attendees will This session will provide attendees with an overview of have the opportunity to consult with local HIV-trained how Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading women’s pharmacists from Walgreens and receive FREE health health care provider, prepared for implementation of the consultations. Affordable Care Act. Attendees will hear from Planned Parenthood staff about the organization’s initiative to prepare its health centers for health reform both from a Engaging People Living with HIV in a Changing policy perspective and a clinic operations perspective. Environment - Connecting the HIV community at a The session will also discuss how women’s health care crossroads in the care landscape (sponsored by Janssen providers and community based organizations can partner Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP) (Session together to address the future of HIV care in a reformed ID: 759) delivery system. Location: Empire B, Level 2 Track: Treatment and Research Ryan White and the ACA (Session ID: 703) Level: Intermediate

Presenters: Changes in access to healthcare at the federal level will Jeffrey Crowley, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown Law, have an impact on local HIV communities. Communication Washington, DC around these changes and their effect on people living Jennifer Kates, Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, DC with HIV are increasingly important. Digital, social and Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 mobile channels represent a unique opportunity to bring Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral the HIV community together in an efficient and accessible Suppression way, and can be personal, private and even anonymous Level: Intermediate if desired. There is great potential for organizations to interact and engage with the people living with HIV/AIDS This session will examine key issues facing the Ryan White that they serve, in addition to establishing a strong online program in order to support the effective implementation presence. Janssen Therapeutics is dedicated to helping of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to ensure its service providers keep clients engaged during this period maximum success in the future. of change, and this workshop will explore current and best practices for using new media (digital/mobile) to optimize the ways they can connect with people living with HIV/ AIDS.

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Black AIDS Institute Partner Seminar: Retooling SESSION 4: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Bootcamp - Getting Ready for an Affordable Care Act and Biomedical Intervention World (Session ID: 770) WORKSHOPS

Presented by The Black AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA Ready? Set? Enroll! (Session ID: 706) Location: Empire D, Level 2 tuesday Level: Advanced Presenter: Andrea Weddle, HIVMA, Alexandria, VA Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 This seminar will provide intensive orientation, education, Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral action-oriented tools and training for AIDS organizations Suppression to re-tool to be more responsive in this biomedical Level: Intermediate intervention and affordable care act landscape. Participants will assess their organizations readiness related Open enrollment will begin on October 1, 2013. to the Affordable Care Act, biomedical interventions, and Millions of Americans will gain new eligibility to private partnerships through a unique tool developed by the health insurance that can be purchased through Black AIDS Institute. Seminar participants will get receive newly established marketplaces operated by the state action-oriented tools to respond to implementation government in some places and the federal government challenges and concerns in local community to ensure that in other. On January 1, 2014, hundreds of thousands communities are able to benefit from new HIV advances of people living with HIV or AIDS will be able to access and policies. affordable health care services reimbursed by either the Medicaid program for persons under 138% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) or private health insurance 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. for those above 138%, which will be subsided in some part for persons up to 400% of FPL. This session will Plenary Luncheon: The Fine Art of Patient Conversations walk through the resources and mechanisms available to with Their Healthcare Providers - An Inside Look Into assist organizations and individuals learn what options are the Importance of Self-Expression (supported by Merck) available and secure the best coverage that will meet their (Session ID: 904) needs.

Presenters: Mondo Guerra, Project Runway All Stars winner Duane Cramer, Acclaimed Photographer Strategizing and Mobilizing to End the Epidemic (Session Location: Celestin Ballroom, Level 3 ID: 822)

Hear Project Runway All Stars winner Mondo Guerra Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 and acclaimed photographer Duane Cramer share their Level: Beginner personal stories and discuss their HIV advocacy work with the Merck HIV education campaign, I Design. From action to advocacy to activism, how do young people bring about change in their communities? Young Mondo and Duane will highlight the importance of people have been disproportionately impacted by the continued open and meaningful communication among epidemic and it will require the meaningful involvement HIV patients and healthcare providers. They will explain of youth to bring the HIV epidemic to an end. We’ll how they have engaged in these conversations to help discuss the most effective ways for creating change in our design an HIV treatment plan tailored to their individual communities and explore how different strategizes can needs and share resources that may help facilitate these help us accomplish our goals. conversations. Visit www.ProjectIDesign.com for more information. The Gay Men’s Health Equity Toolkit: A Health This session is supported by Merck. Department Response to the Epidemic Among Gay Men/ MSM (Session ID: 495)

Presenter: Isaiah Webster III, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Advanced

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NASTAD will showcase the advancement of its “Getting to Angeles County and Boston, as well as rural Alabama Zero” policy statement by unveiling its Gay Men’s Health have created strong networks with HIV medical care Equity Toolkit. The toolkit will detail the health department institutions within their regions and designed unique response to a renewed effort to eliminate new HIV and models for engaging individuals in HIV medical care. This STD infections among gay men/MSM of all races and session represents an opportunity to explore each of these ethnicities. models and the shared and unique barriers to HIV care in each of these regions. Professionals from AIDS Project Los Angeles, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, To Build or Not to Build: Are You Really Ready to and Medical AIDS Outreach of Alabama will describe their Become a FQHC? (Session ID: 620) access to care program models and discuss both lessons

learned and best practices. tuesday Presenters: Sandra Houston, Newark, NJ Jacqueline Coleman, MEd, MSM, HealthHIV, Washington, DC Improving Linkage to Care with African-American MSM: Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Using a Strength-Based Approach (Session ID: 318) Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Beginner Presenters: Tim Vincent, Duran Rutledge, Deborah Wyatt- O’Neal and Gustavo Campos, California Prevention This cutting edge workshop will focus on an emerging Training Center, Oakland, CA trend among domestic CBOs, with and without HIV/ Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 AIDS programs, in an effort to transform and retool for Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care future service delivery. The session will serve as fertile Level: Intermediate ground for CBOs to explore opportunities and challenges in becoming a federally qualified health center (FQHC) The strength-based approach has been widely used in or look-alike. This topical area is one reported by CEOs social work and focuses on the capabilities, resiliencies and EDs on the ground as not having enough solid and and past successful experiences that people have focused information to make quality decisions about the accomplished in order to respond to current identified future of their agencies. problems. In the linkage to care strategy, this approach is High-level discussions will include the changing external applied to specific problems that keep newly diagnosed environment, suggestions and recommendations for HIV positive clients from seeking care. For African- agency exploration, assessment and transition. The American MSM living with HIV, barriers can include rationale for becoming a FQHC will be addressed so that stigma, access to health care, economics, mistrust myths and misperceptions will be clarified. Criteria and and mistreatment of the medical establishment, and necessities required to springboard to this level of service experiences with homophobia and racism. This workshop provision are prevailing subtopics within the rubric of will describe the principles, techniques and application of healthcare planning. the strength-based approach to improve linkage to care outcomes for black MSM.

From New England to Hollywood to the Deep South: local responses to the national call for increased access Creating Stronger Outcomes through Greater and linkage to HIV care (Session ID: 259) Collaboration between Programs and Finance (Session ID: 240) Presenters: Stella Gukasyan, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Presenter: David Fazio, GMHC, New York, NY Michael Murphree, Medical AIDS Outreach of Alabama, Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Montgomery, AL Track: Organizations and Change Management Jeremy Lapedis, AIDS Action Committee, Boston, MA Level: Beginner Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care This workshop will demonstrate and educate Community Level: Intermediate Based Organizations on how to create and implement a proven collaborative model between Program Services AIDS United’s Access2Care program presented an and the Finance Department which has proven to create opportunity for local communities across the United States stronger outcomes on grant deliverables and appropriate to implement region specific programs to identify, link, forecasting and spending on grants. and retain out of care PLWHA. Urban areas such as Los

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An Innovative Approach to Enhance Linkage to Care, How does the HIV workforce foster strengths and Retention in Care and Viral Suppression for the HIV opportunities in greater treatment and limit weaknesses Infected Community in an Urban Setting (Session ID: 629) and threats to adherence? (Session ID: 760)

Presenter: Ashley Rock, University of Maryland, Institute of Presenters: Human Virology, JACQUES Initiative, Baltimore, MD National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC tuesday Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Dazon Dixon Diallo, SisterLove, Atlanta, GA Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Suppression Track: Treatment and Research Level: Intermediate Level: Beginner

The JACQUES Initiative (JI) of the Institute of Human Using examples of strong partnerships between the Virology at the University of Maryland provides a workers in Community Based Organizations, Community comprehensive model that ultimately leads to linkage to Health Centers and Government Health Departments, care, retention in care and viral suppression. In 2011, JI the session will illustrate how supporting, training and created the Connect 2 Care (C2C) clinic to address the empowering workers across the matrix of care and challenge of linkage to care. The session will describe responsibility in HIV care positively impacts treatment and this comprehensive approach and its outcomes through adherence. the following objectives: 1) Present an overview of the JI’s patient population and the challenges linking and retaining urban populations in care; 2) Introduce Advancing High Impact Prevention Through the JI’s Connect 2 Care (C2C) model; 3) Discuss how the Implementation of Prevention with Positive Activities C2C model builds a foundation for retention in care; 4) (Session ID: 795) Describe JI’s highly-supportive primary care model; 5) Present data from JI’s clinic related to linkage to care, Presenters: Janet Cleveland, David Purcell, Angel Ortiz- retention in care and viral suppression. Ricard and Pat Sweeney, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA DeAnn Gruber, Louisiana Department of Health, New The Role of Employment in HIV Wellness & Recovery Orleans, LA (Session ID: 239) CBO Representative (TBD) Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Presenters: Nicole J. Pashka, MS, CRC, CPRP and Tabitha Track: High Impact Prevention Pederson, AM, Chicago House & Social Service Agency, Level: Intermediate Chicago, IL Lisa A. Razzano, PhD, CPRP, UIC Department of Psychiatry, Recent scientific advances have equipped us with an Chicago, IL unprecedented number of effective tools to prevent the Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 HIV infection that will assist in improving outcomes along Track: Treatment and Research the continuum of care. Strong scientific evidence has Level: Intermediate demonstrated that identifying HIV positive individuals, linking or re-engaging and retaining them in care is among This workshop will examine the role of employment in the most effective prevention strategies available. Hence, promoting wellness and recovery among individuals across the country, health departments and community- with HIV/AIDS. Presenters will discuss implementation of based organizations are updating their prevention with employment services, factors contributing to employment positive (PWP) strategies to align their programs with success, health and mental health supports and services, recent advances and tools. and issues related to disclosure of health status and treatment within the workplace. Information regarding One of the key principles of high impact prevention (HIP) the need for additional workforce training regarding is using HIV prevention resources in such a way to have employment for service providers also will be described. the biggest impact possible for our prevention investment. This panel discussion will present an effective approach to PWP activities and the importance of collaboration between state, CBOs, and community stakeholders in the success of these efforts. Significant time will be allocated for audience input, questions, and discussion.

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Linked to Care: Now What? Motivating Clients Living from 10 Southeastern States, from El Paso, TX to Newport with HIV to Adhere to Treatment for Longer Life (Session News, VA. ID: 157) This session will focus on accomplishments and challenges Presenters: of network member programs in linking and maintaining Stephen Fallon, PhD, Skills4, Ft Lauderdale, FL persons to care. The panelists will provide highlights Gregory Timmer, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL and lessons learned implementing their programs Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 among diversity of populations (MSM, women, formerly Track: Treatment and Research incarcerated and the homeless) and in a variety of Level: Intermediate community settings in the South. The session will include

an interactive dialogue with all participants. tuesday The CDC’s High Impact Prevention strategy seeks to ensure that 125,000 more persons currently living with HIV are diagnosed and linked into care. To achieve this Healthy Aging with HIV (Session ID: 771) ambitious goal, medical professionals and ASO / CBO support staff must now work as a team. This session Presenters: will give case managers, prevention staff, and linkage Benjamin Young, International Association of Providers of specialists the tools they need to inform and motivate AIDS Care, Denver, CO clients who are considering initiating or re-entering care. Shannon Southall, Rocky Mountain CARES, Denver, CO Unlike most treatment lectures, this workshop will use Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 clear and accessible case studies and illustrations so that Track: Treatment and Research non-medical professionals will be able to meaningfully Level: Intermediate support the treatment cascade. The workshop will include an analogy that shows how HIV treatment strategies People infected with HIV who successfully engage in care have evolved over time. It will document how modern are living longer and healthier. By 2015, approximately treatments can extend productive lives. The session will half of PLWH in the US will over the age of 50. Healthy close with an exciting preview of radical new treatment aging with HIV requires an early appreciation and strategies in the works that may change everything you prevention of an evolving spectrum of medical conditions, thought you knew about HIV treatment. many of which are more common among positives than the general population. Aging with HIV will change many aspects of relationships between patients and care Bridging the Cascade: Lessons Learned from the Positive providers. This workshop will include lectures by expert a Action Southern Initiative (Session ID: 379) medical care provider and case manager, allowing time for panel discussion and audience question and answer. Presenters: Moderator: A. Cornelius Baker, FHI360, Washington, DC (Moderator) Beyond needle exchange: getting to zero for people who Panel Members: use drugs (Session ID: 709) Valerie Mincey, BASIC NWFL, Panama City, FL Lisa Diane White, SisterLove, Inc., Atlanta, GA Presenters: Laura Thomas, Drug Policy Alliance, San Ayana Eady-Patterson, Union Mission, Savannah, GA Francisco, CA Mark Johnson, Brotherhood Inc., New Orleans, LA Yolande Cadore, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Hadiyah Charles, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Track: Organizations and Change Management Location: Bolden 3, Level 3 Level: Advanced Track: Level: The Positive Action Southern Initiative is a collaborative, community-focused program designed to address gaps We have the knowledge and the tools to end transmission in services or programs that support linkages to care and of HIV and hepatitis C among people who inject drugs, treatment adherence among individuals living with HIV/ but stigma, criminalization, and structural and resource AIDS. The Southern Initiative is designed to address barriers stand in the way. This workshop will look at what it critical needs identified by communities and support will take to address those barriers, including highlighting the White House National HIV/AIDS Strategy goals of the success of places such as Vancouver, British Columbia, reducing health disparities. Begun in 2010, the network and Portugal. What is the cost of our reluctance to address members represent 27 community-based organizations those issues in the U.S.? What will it take to end the

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criminalization of drug use and people who use drugs? implemented STARSHIPP (Strategies for Those At Risk The workshop will discuss decriminalizing drug possession; Seeking High Impact Prevention & PrEP) Project. fully accessible, evidence-based drug treatment; syringe access and supervised injection services; and ensuring that people who use drugs are a part of the conversation. Impact of U.S. HIV Criminalization on HIV/AIDS Services and Prevention Provision - What We Can Learn from the tuesday British (Session ID: 334) ROUNDTABLES Presenters: Stigma Sero’Positive (Session ID: 159) Jason A. Smith, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA Presenters: Jacob Smith Yang and Deodonne P. Bhattarai, Asian & Yesenia Kimberly Palacios and Eddie Gonzalez, Fundación Pacific Islander American Health Forum, San Francisco, CA Latino Americana Contra El SIDA, Houston, TX Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 Location: Imperial 4, Level 4 Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection Level: Beginner Level: Intermediate

Fundación Latino Americana Contra El SIDA, Inc. is going In February 2013, HIV criminalization was condemned theatrical to introduce a new way of educating the Latino by the Oslo Declaration on HIV Criminalization and the community about HIV. The roundtable will highlight the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), play called “Stigma Sero’Positive” -- written by Eddie reaffirming the longtime U.S. HIV/AIDS community stance Gonzalez and performed by Grupo de Teatro Indigo (GTI). that such measures reflect, reinforce, and amplify fear The presenters will perform a cold reading. The roundtable and stigmatization of HIV-positive individuals. Public provides a powerful message to counter the stigma that health, disease, and criminalization provide frameworks surrounds HIV/AIDS. This new approach will have audience for discussing this issue. How such laws impact HIV/ members learning and laughing at the same time. By AIDS services and prevention providers, particularly using the arts as a tool of influence, it is hoped that a shift providers who care for the most vulnerable and hard- will emerge in community perspectives toward HIV. A hard to-reach clients—those previously involved with the copy of the script will be available to the attendees. criminal justice system, immigrants, and people of color has received limited attention in the U.S. The British HIV/ AIDS community has been notably active in considering STARSHIPP: Strategies for Those At Risk Seeking High some of these issues. What best practices can U.S. Impact Prevention & PrEP (Session ID: 539) providers learn from their colleagues across the Pond and what approaches have been shown successful in Presenters: Dazon Dixon Diallo, MPH and Lisa Diane helping providers navigate their jurisdictions’ laws without White, SisterLove Inc., Atlanta, GA jeopardizing further engagement and linkage to care and Anna Forbes, MSS, Washington, DC services among clients who are already “hard to reach”? Manju Chatani, MPH, Northhampton, MA This roundtable will explore these questions and consider Location: Imperial 3, Level 4 the implications of U.S. HIV criminalization measures Track: High Impact Prevention on client messaging by and communication from HIV Level: Intermediate prevention and AIDS service organizations.

SisterLove will convene the roundtable to discuss the implementation of a community-based assessment of Understanding Generational Differences: Finding risk and uptake of High Impact Prevention strategies, Common Ground for Organizational Success (Session ID: especially PrEP, among residents of Metropolitan Atlanta, 358) especially women and men who have sex with men (MSM). The primary objective of this roundtable is to Presenter: Jim Manning, Palmetto AIDS Life Support share experience and lessons learned from designing Services (PALSS), Columbia, SC and implementing a testing and counseling initiative Location: Imperial 6, Level 4 that provides Linkage to Care for all tested individuals, Track: Organizations and Change Management both HIV+ and HIV-, especially those at high risk for Level: Intermediate HIV infection. The topic of discussion is the newly

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The topic of this roundtable presentation is that of SESSION 5: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM examining generational differences that exist in the workforce. The workforce is aging and now exists of four WORKSHOPS generations; Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. Each generation brings uniquely Stressors and mental health challenges faced by differing characteristics to the organization’s staff and it is immigrant Chinese massage parlor workers in HIV important for the management team to understand these prevention (Session ID: 98) differences and create strategies to find common ground for effective and efficient service delivery. Presenter: Samuel Ou, APAIT Health Center, Los Angeles, CA

Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 tuesday Treatment, Research and the Latino community (bilingual Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection session) (Session ID: 761) Level: Beginner

Presenter: Moises Agosto, National Minority AIDS Council, The session will focus on the mental health challenges Washington, DC of monolingual Chinese immigrant women working in massage parlors which serve as a barrier to HIV service Location: Imperial 7, Level 4 delivery. The workshop will cover the stigma participants Track: Treatment and Research face within their immigrant communities and how to better Level: Intermediate address this issue.

This roundtable will touch on treatment and research in the field of HIV that specifically relates to the Latino Using a Participatory Model of Engagement Among community in the U.S. It is an opportunity to focus on the Urban Native Communities and HIV Clinical Research issues that people in the Latino community face when Sites: A Case Study (Session ID: 347) it comes to HIV treatment across each aspect of the cascade. There will also be discussion around how barriers Presenter: Katie Osterhage, Legacy Project, Seattle, WA to treatment can be addressed from a psycho-social Matt Ignacio and Michaela Grey, National Native American perspective. AIDS Prevention Center, Denver, CO Jessica Velcoff, Legacy Project, New Orleans, LA Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Keeping Clients Housed: Applying the Harm Reduction Track: High Impact Prevention Model to Rent Collection (Session ID: 60) Level: Beginner

Presenter: Monika Grzeniewski, Harlem United, New York, The Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination’s NY Legacy Project and the National Native American AIDS Location: Strand 5, Level 2 Prevention Center (NNAAPC) developed the Native Track: Housing American Engagement in HIV Clinical Research (NAEHCR) Level: Beginner Project together as a means to increase awareness and involvement among urban Native communities in This roundtable will review program level data around HIV clinical research. This workshop will highlight the rent payment, and health and housing outcomes for engagement model, focusing on the incorporation of a clients living in permanent supportive housing. Discussion participatory approach, the incremental process, the role will focus on rent as a clinical issue, and strategies for of community and research stakeholders, key facilitators of improving rent collection rates and other client outcomes. change, and specific activities that help to build capacity and strengthen relationships among stakeholders. The workshop will be facilitated in an interactive manner, offering opportunity for audience members to discuss implications and applications of this model for work with their own communities.

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Training and Monitoring Testing Sites to Deliver Couples studies, determine how to measure various social media HIV Testing and Counseling for male-male couples activities, and develop a follow-up plan for their case. (Session ID: 364) Participants will then identify and discuss one strategy that they can use to monitor and evaluate their own social Presenter: Rob Stephenson, PhD, Emory University, Hubert media efforts at their organizations. Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public tuesday Heath, Atlanta, GA Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Testing Connections: The Use of Peer Health Educators in Track: High Impact Prevention a Social Network Testing Initiative in Prevention programs Level: Intermediate in South Los Angeles (Session ID: 482)

Couples HIV Testing and Counseling (CHTC) is an Presenters: Stacy Alford and Antony Moreno, AIDS Project innovative approach to testing male-male couples in the Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA US. The proposed presentation will focus on outlining the Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 development, content, and roll out of the CHTC training Track: High Impact Prevention and will discuss the main issues faced in by a range of Level: Beginner CBOs in the implementation of the new CHTC model. The workshop will focus on the technical assistance model that This workshop will present how AIDS Project Los Angeles was developed to ensure fidelity to the CHTC intervention (APLA) has implemented a Social Network testing and to improve quality of service implementation. The program. This project seeks to 1) Generate discussion main aim of the workshop is to describe how a new about HIV testing in the community 2) Increase HIV testing dyadic-focused intervention is being rolled out in the US 3) Identify HIV positive individuals and 4) Reduce the and to give the audience an opportunity to understand the transmission of HIV among high risk individuals in Los realities of working with this exciting new innovation in HIV Angeles, CA. testing. The workshop will describe the background to CHTC, the roll out of CHTC and will give an overview of the training LGBTQ Homeless Crisis in Chicago - Community available to agencies wishing to learn about providing Response - El Rescate (Session ID: 531) couples testing for male-male couples. Presenters: Kristina Lastki and Jose Ramos, Vida/SIDA, Chicago, IL Matching your Metrics. Meeting Your Social Media Goals Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 (Session ID: 461) Track: Housing Level: Intermediate Presenters: Naima Cozier, JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc., Atlanta, GA We will be discussing El Rescate - the only transitional Michelle Samplin-Salgado, JSI Research and Training housing program in Chicago to address homelessness Institute, Inc., Boston, MA in the 18-24 LGBTQ youth. It is the only grassroots, Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 community based and funded program of its kind in Track: High Impact Prevention the mid-west, and the residents will be discussing their Level: Intermediate experiences and describing how we work to keep our doors open. With the ever-growing menu of social media tools available, many organizations are embracing new and emerging technologies to reach clients and promote HIV Barriers and Risk Factors that Affect Access to Care or prevention and care services. However, many struggle to Prevention Services: Stories and Strategies from a Panel demonstrate that their social media efforts are having an of HIV+ & HIV- Latino and African-American YMSM effect and that limited resources are being used effectively. (Session ID: 246) This workshop focuses on the use of metrics to help organizations determine what success looks like for their Presenters: Obed Caballero, Jose Javier and Gregory social media efforts and is geared toward participants who Timmer, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL are already familiar with social media tools. Presenters Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 will first discuss strategies to monitor and evaluate social Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care media activities. Through problem-based learning, Level: Beginner participants will work in small groups to discuss case

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We have all heard the phrase “test and treat.” Yet there the dark clouds of today’s economic conditions. A large are many reasons why some Latino and African-American section will be devoted to the Affordable Care Act and its YMSM have trouble accessing care and prevention implications. services, or remaining in programs once enrolled. In this workshop, you’ll hear from Latino and African- American YMSM representing both the HIV + and HIV Boosting HIV Medication Adherence through Innovative – communities, and get to hear first-hand about their Technology: Translating Research to Practice (Session ID: experiences not only working with their peers, but also 42) their personal stories dealing with the very same barriers that clients face. By the conclusion, you will be able to Presenter: Bhupendra Sheoran, YTH, Oakland, CA identify common barriers that affect YMSM’s decisions or Location: Imperial 5B, Level 4 tuesday even ability to access care and services that could help Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral them, and also describe the strategies to implement Suppression to help overcome these barriers. The facilitators will Level: Intermediate conclude with an open discussion for others to share their local challenges and strategies. This session will describe a demonstration project in the state of Oregon to increase HIV medication adherence. Oregonreminders.org is a free and confidential statewide High Impact Leadership: Leadership evocation in service developed through collaboration between Oregon changing times (Session ID: 267) Health Authority and YTH to provide an innovative service that integrates email, text message and voice for HIV Presenters: Michael Everett and Skylar Panuska, Harm medication, medication refill and HIV testing reminders. Reduction Coalition, New York, NY Aunsha Hall, Latino Commission on AIDS, New York, NY Location: Strand 13, Level 2 Everything You Need to Know about Anal Health and HIV Track: Organizations and Change Management (Session ID: 295) Level: Intermediate Presenters: Jonathan Baker, University of Pittsburgh, High Impact Prevention, National HIV/AIDS Strategy, Pittsburgh, PA and Treatment as Prevention are some of the shifts in Jose Bauermesiter, University of Michigan School of Public prevention that many organizations are making. As Health, Ann Arbor, MI HIV prevention priorities shifts at the funding level Jonathan Lucas, Microbicide Trials Network/FHI 360, organizations will begin to lean on the talents and Durham, NC leadership of staff in order to stay relevant and or possibly Jim Pickett, AIDS Foundation of Chicago/International afloat. National capacity builders (CBA) understand Rectal Microbicide Advocates, Chicago, IL the importance and urgency for community-based Mitchell Wharton, University of Rochester School of organizations and health departments to be able to Nursing, Rochester, NY develop the talent necessary to more easily navigate Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 through tough climatic shifts. For this reason it is Track: High Impact Prevention imperative that organizations investigate opportunities to Level: Beginner develop or strengthen functional leadership development processes at the agency level. Maintaining anal health is vitally important for people who practice anal intercourse. Unfortunately, stigma around its practice, greatly compounded by homophobia Building your CBO to withstand today’s environment and racism, may prevent Black and Latino gay men and (Session ID: 27) other men who have sex with men (MSM) from accessing information and care needed to maintain anal health Presenter: Rob Renzi, Big Bend Cares, Tallahassee, FL and hygiene. To raise awareness about its importance, Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 panelists will address the treatment of anal dysplasia and Track: Organizations and Change Management sexually transmitted diseases; rectal microbicides for HIV Level: Intermediate prevention; beliefs, behaviors and policies related to sexuality and anal intercourse in Black and Latino MSM This workshop will focus on techniques and methodologies that may negatively impact access to anal health care; and for small to midsize CBOs and ASOs to utilize to maximize engage participants in a lively discussion about the best revenue, decrease costs and to find the silver lining in ways to address these barriers.

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PrEP is an effective HIV prevention strategy but all people HIV and Cancer: How an Academic-Community must be aware of it to access it. We will explore how Partnership Can Identify and Address Organizational community messaging about PrEP can help young people Needs in an Emerging Context (Session ID: 357) better understand the application and effectiveness of this relatively new prevention strategy. We’ll provide examples Presenter: John A. Guidry, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, New of how individuals and community based organizations tuesday York, NY have successfully utilized social media to engage youth Location: Strand 12A, Level 2 communities about PrEP. This workshop will be an Track: Treatment and Research opportunity for people to brainstorm about how different Level: Intermediate PrEP messaging strategies can work for young people.

This workshop will use the experience of the HIV/ AIDS and Cancer Community Research Collaboration NASTAD Partner Workshop- STIGMATIZED: A Townhall between Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, City to Address Stigma Impacting Black & Latino Gay Men’s College of New York, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis to Health Equity (Session ID: 772) provide attendees with tools and information on how to: (a) create academic-community partnerships between Presenters: research institutions, community-based AIDS service Isaiah Webster III, National Alliance of State and Territorial organizations (ASOs), and other community stakeholders, AIDS Directors, Washington, DC including clients; (b) use community-based participatory Dana Cropper-Williams, National Coalition of STD research (CBPR) to implement a multi-state community Directors, Washington, DC needs assessment; and (c) use CBPR to implement an Location: Strand 12B, Level 2 intervention trial that addresses a challenging issue in the Level: Beginner community (tobacco use). The Collaboration has been funded by a series of grants from the National Institutes of Stigma plays an adverse role in the implementation of Health since 2009, has developed 4 different projects with quality health care for Black and Latino gay men. During community organizations, and is publishing its findings in this workshop, NASTAD will present work on its three-year peer-reviewed journals. stigma project, and solicit community input into its stigma toolkit. Formatted as a community forum, participants will be highly engaged and asked to offer solutions to Navigating Access and Knowing Your Rights (Session ID: address stigma in the public arena based on race, gender 707) expression, sexual orientation and HIV status.

Presenters: Amy Killelea, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC ROUNDTABLES Robert Greenwald, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, Jamaica Plain, MA Health Department Programming and the Changing Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Landscape of HIV Prevention (Session ID: 625) Level: Beginner Presenters: This session will provide an overview of the core benefits Todd Harvey and Natalie Cramer, National Alliance of and patients’ rights afforded to all who qualify for State & Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC expanded ACA health programs and monitoring and Dave Kern, National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS oversight strategies. Directors, Seattle, WA Location: Imperial 3, Level 4 Track: High Impact Prevention PrEP Messaging (Session ID: 762) Level: Intermediate

Presented by the National Minority AIDS Council, This roundtable will describe data collected from the Washington, DC 2012-2013 National HIV Prevention Inventory (NHPI). The Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “High Track: Treatment and Research Impact Prevention” and its related funding opportunity Level: Intermediate announcement, PS 12-1201, demanded fundamental shifts in the ways many health departments implement HIV prevention programs in their jurisdiction. Comparing

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2012-2013 NHPI data with data from the 2009 NHPI, from specialized training for staff, partnership building and this roundtable will highlight changes in HIV prevention increased follow ups with clients. programs and discuss their implications. Roundtable participants will learn about the direction HIV prevention is going and what that means for communities and their new The HIV & Aging Project: Navigating the Intersection of role in participating in HIV prevention activities. HIV & Aging (Session ID: 375)

Presenter: Daniel Aguilar, JRI Health/Realizes Resources, Addressing the Prevention Needs of HIV Positive Young Boston, MA Black Men (Session ID: 252) Location: Imperial 7, Level 4

Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral tuesday Presenters: Kevin E. Bynes, M.Ed. and Alvan G.V. Suppression Quamina, JD, PhD, MPH (AIDS Project of the East Bay, Level: Intermediate Oakland, CA Location: Imperial 4, Level 4 People living with HIV, 50 and older are developing aging Track: High Impact Prevention related illnesses at much higher rates and younger ages. Level: Intermediate Using the HIV & Aging Project as a model, this session will identify these specific medical issues facing older PLWH in Young Black Gay men are at increased risk for HIV the hopes that it will encourage dialogue between older Infection. While we develop prevention strategies to keep PLWH and their providers leading to screenings, treatment those young Black gay men who are negative from sero and viral suppression. converting we must remember that increased infection rates among this population mean that there are more young black gay men living with HIV and there needs Lessons from the Community: Engaging Women in HIV must be addressed in a variety of areas. The CLEAR Prevention Research Advocacy (Session ID: 345) intervention, one of CDC’s approved interventions for its “High Impact Prevention” Programs, is an intervention Presenters: Julie Patterson, AVAC PxROAR, Cleveland, OH that addresses many of the prevention, care and psycho Kieta Mutepfa, AVAC PxROAR, Los Angeles, CA social needs of young Black Gay men. Recruiting for and Location: Imperial 10, Level 4 delivering this model intervention using new medias Track: Treatment and Research has improved our recruitment and retention rates and Level: Intermediate improved access to the intervention for those who lack the ability to come in for a face to face counseling session. In this interactive roundtable, presenters will share case This delivery method has also helped to mitigate stigma studies and examples from their work conducting HIV associated with the performance site and allowed us to prevention research advocacy with women, then invite provide this service to young black gay men who are participants to share their work or input. Participants will paralyzed by stigma and unable to seek services at the gain and share insights around particular strategies to agency. engage women, especially women of color and HIV+ women, including: mobilizing for community events and workshops about HIV prevention research; strategies Linking to Care Male Patrons of Bath Houses and Sex for fostering communication and collaboration between Clubs in Los Angeles County (Session ID: 355) researchers, community organizations and advocates; effective research dissemination and translation; gently Presenter: Salomon Torrrescano, JWCH Institute Inc., Los stretching the boundaries of traditional social support; Angeles, CA and engagement models and strategies. The session Location: Imperial 6, Level 4 assumes basic familiarity with the terminology and recent Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care developments in biomedical HIV prevention. Level: Beginner

Our workshop presentation will cover the challenges and methods of linking to care MSM in the bathhouses and sex clubs in Los Angeles County. We will cover the diversity of men that we encounter, the barriers that exist in linking to care MSM within these venues and the methods that have increased our success. We will discuss techniques ranging

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SESSIONS-AT-A-GLANCE A Statewide Collaborative using Motivational Interviewing and Quality Management: An Effort in SEMINARS: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Reducing Community Viral Load and Linking Patients to Care (Session ID: 54) Examining Effective Engagement Strategies to Reach Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 wednesday MSM of Color (Session ID: 146) Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 Engaging and Retaining Latinos in HIV Care: Addressing Barriers to HIV Care (Session ID: 797) Youth Initiative Action Planning, Profession Development Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 Tips, Close Out and Evaluation (Session ID: 823) Location: Imperial 5C, Level 2 ANAC Partner Seminar: Health Literacy and Treatment as Prevention - Building Better Nurse/Co Community HIV Justice: The disabling legal environments faced by Education Efforts (Session ID: 780) people living with and affected by HIV in Canada and the Location: Strand 11B, Level 2 US (Session ID: 264) Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 "Information is Powerful Medicine": Health Information, Privacy and Civil Rights (Session ID: 806) The Treatment Cascade: Women of Color & the Role of Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Women’s Health Centers (Session ID: 532) Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM Strengthening Your Teamwork to Address Critical Changes in the Era of NHAS & the ACA (Session ID: 394) Closing Plenary Luncheon: Implementing the Affordable Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Care Act - A Call to Action! (Session ID: 905) Location: Empire Ballroom, Level 2 Get More for Less: Innovative Expansions to HIV Testing with Limited Resources (Session ID: 130) Location: Strand 10B, Level 2

Innovative Approaches to Improving Retention Rates and Clinical Outcomes for HIV Positive Patients in Federally Qualified Health Centers (Session ID: 565) Location: Strand 13A, Level 2

The ACA: ASO led state-level implementation through collaborations (Session ID: 116) Location: Strand 13B, Level 2

HIV Intervention and Prevention With Black Men who have sex with men: A research and policy dialogue (Session ID: 15) Location: Imperial 1, Level 4

We’re In It Together: Formal & Informal Networks for Accessing PrEP Dialogs and Community Perspective on Treatment as Prevention (Session ID: 308) Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4

Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Partner Workshop: Health Literacy and Treatment as Prevention: Building better Nurse/Consumer Community Education Efforts (Session ID: 780) Location: Strand 13B, Level 2

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Jessica Whitbread, International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), Toronto, Ontario, Canada SEMINARS: 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Location: Bolden 3, Level 2 Track: Domestic/ International Issues Intersection Examining Effective Engagement Strategies to Reach Level: Intermediate MSM of Color (Session ID: 146) This seminar will use films, personal testimony, research Presenters: Stephaun Wallace, Fred Hutchinson Cancer results, a case study of PLHIV-led advocacy, and audience Research Center, Seattle WA discussion to share information about the current status Martha Chono-Helsley, REACH LA, Los Angeles, CA and effects of HIV-related criminal laws in the US and Aisha Diori, Hetrick-Martin Institute, New York, NY Canada and to engage in critical conversations about the

Location: Bolden 2, Level 2 HIV community response. It will address the unintended wednesday Track: High Impact Prevention consequences of the criminal laws for people living Level: Beginner with HIV and public health concerns about the use of the criminal law to deal with HIV transmission and non- Young black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the disclosure. Further, the seminar will discuss tensions United States experience disproportionately high rates between personal responsibility and responsibility of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). for others and the challenges created by gender From 2001 to 2006, the number of HIV/AIDS cases among inequalities and unequal power dynamics in relationships, black MSM aged 13--24 years in 33 states increased 93%. demonstrating ways to think about HIV criminalization Despite this alarming increase, the number of evidence- without neglecting the needs of those who feel harmed or based interventions for young black MSM is limited. unjustly treated by their partners. Finally, the seminar will This seminar will explore the successes and challenges provide lessons learned from mobilization campaigns to experienced by three agencies in planning comprehensive change harmful state laws about HIV criminalization. HIV prevention programs for young black MSM and assist participants in developing a roadmap for a successful program. The Treatment Cascade: Women of Color & the Role of Women’s Health Centers (Session ID: 532)

Youth Initiative Action Planning, Profession Development Presenter: Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Planned Parenthood Tips, Close Out and Evaluation (Session ID: 823) Federation of America, New York, NY Location: Bolden 4, Level 2 Location: Imperial 5C, Level 2 Track: High Impact Prevention Level: Beginner Level: Beginner

As USCA draws to a close, what lessons have been learned With one in three women receiving an HIV test at a and what skills have been built at the conference? This women’s health center like Planned Parenthood, women’s final session will allow youth scholars to evaluate their time health centers are often gateways for further health at USCA, strengthen their new relationships and strategize care. Women’s health centers provide not only HIV an action plan for the rest of 2013. They will leave USCA as screening as part of routine care, but also offer other youth leaders better prepared to end the HIV epidemic. services addressing a host of issues that can increase the risk of HIV transmission including counseling for intimate partner violence, sexuality education, and family HIV Justice: The disabling legal environments faced by planning counseling. Attendees audience will learn about people living with and affected by HIV in Canada and the best practices from women’s health centers employing US (Session ID: 264) behavioral and biomedical interventions including HIV and other STI testing, prevention programming for at risk Presenters: Laurel Sprague, The Global Network of People populations, antiretroviral therapy, access to condoms and Living with HIV, North America (GNP+NA), Ann Arbor, MI prophylactics, and among other things, screenings and Sean Strub, The Sero Project, Milford, PA referrals for treatment for the range of sexually transmitted Richard Elliot, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Toronto, diseases. To address the treatment cascade, this workshop Ontario, Canada will also focus on the critical role of testing to inform Robert Suttle, The Sero Project, Washington, DC women and young people of their status and link them to Tami Haught, Community HIV & Hepatitis Advocates of treatment. This workshop will also discuss the particularly Iowa Network (CHAIN), Nashau/Des Moines, IA

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devastating impact of HIV on women of color, including this session, we explain the why, how, who, and what of the role social determinants play in accessing prevention these programs, including practical aspects that make and care. Finally, the audience will learn from Community them work on a CBO’s limited resources. We talk about Based Organizations (CBO) working with women of color challenges, successes and unexpected results. Participants and how partnerships with women’s’ health centers can will explore how these models might be adapted to work wednesday increase access to HIV screening and further care. within their own agencies.

Strengthening Your Teamwork to Address Critical Innovative Approaches to Improving Retention Rates and Changes in the Era of NHAS & the ACA (Session ID: 394) Clinical Outcomes for HIV Positive Patients in Federally Qualified Health Centers (Session ID: 565) Presenters: Patrick Stanley and Miguel Chion, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Presenters: Thomas Siegmeth, MPH, CHES and Angel Location: Strand 10A, Level 2 Rosario, AltaMed Health Services Corporation, Los Track: Organizations and Change Management Angeles, CA Level: Intermediate Michaela Hoffman, MPH and Shaddai Martinez-Cuestas, MPH, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, San A team is any group of people working together towards Francisco, CA a common purpose. Teams face a number of challenges: Location: Strand 13A, Level 2 cultural diversity, conflict, unequal workload, and even the Track: Retention in Care/Primary Care and Viral creation of a well-balanced team. In the next few years, Suppression teams in HIV/AIDS agencies will begin working together Level: Intermediate to address the changes resulting from the National HIV/ AIDS Strategy (NHAS) and the Affordable Care Act As retention in care plays an increasingly important role (ACA) as they come into effect. These teams will need to in the strategy to end the AIDS epidemic, the challenge work fast and efficiently in order to help their agencies becomes ensuring that organizations are able to identify adapt to the changes and continue to provide the best and remove structural barriers to engagement. Health services possible to their clients. This seminar will teach information systems are promising tools to systematically participants about teams and effective strategies for and efficiently identify clients who are out of care as well creating and maintaining a high-efficiency team within and as those who are poorly managed. Learn about how across agencies. two Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco and AltaMed Health Services Corporation in Los Angeles, have Get More for Less: Innovative Expansions to HIV Testing strategized to improve retention rates: 1) by leveraging with Limited Resources (Session ID: 130) Electronic Health Record (EHR) and information systems, 2) by participating in retention programs such as the Presenters: Joseph Sedillo, Mary Berghaus and Michael In+care campaign, and 3) by adjusting the organizational Anderson-Nathe, Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR structure and retention strategies to promote engagement Location: Strand 10B, Level 2 in care and improve clinical outcomes for HIV positive Track: High Impact Prevention patients. Level: Beginner

We live in complicated times - on one hand we have The ACA: ASO led state-level implementation through recommendations calling for universal HIV screenings collaborations (Session ID: 116) and on the other messages of High Impact Prevention focused on testing highest-risk communities - all of this Presenters: Randall Russell, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Seattle, in a context of diminishing public and private resources. WA Faced with these challenges - how do CBOs change and Terri Vispo-Cuba, Lifelong AIDS Alliance, Seattle, WA adapt to meet the shifting needs of prevention efforts Richard Aleshire, Washington State Department of Health, while minimizing the financial impacts? Cascade AIDS Olympia, WA Project added several new testing programs in recent Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 years to do just that. In particular, we launched our Track: Organizations and Change Management “Testing for All” program that offers affordable rapid HIV Level: Advanced testing to everyone in our community, regardless of risk as well as Couples HIV testing for MSM populations. In

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AIDS Service Organizations (ASO) have created and panel of civil rights and health information privacy experts developed ways to work with chronic conditions, often will discuss how education and enforcement are working multiple chronic conditions. Whether an ASO offers hand in hand to protect the rights of individuals with HIV, medical, psychiatric, substance abuse, counseling, including: (1) HHS OCR’s new health information privacy psychosocial, housing, food/meals, and/or other supports, education campaign, “Information is Powerful Medicine,” the ACA implementation will change the way people which aims to increase awareness of HIPAA rights and receive their services. Washington State has progressively benefits among HIV+ Black men who have sex with men been an early adapter of the ACA and the ASO movement (http://www.aids.gov/privacy/); (2) HHS OCR’s privacy led the way for how Care Coordination (Medicaid) and enforcement work, including a $1,000,000 settlement with In-Person Assistor (Exchange) functions were shaped by Mass General to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA the ASO collaborations with multiple partners to start new Privacy Rule affecting patients with HIV (http://www.hhs. lines of work to sustain and reach those with HIV. gov/news/press/2011pres/02/20110224b.html); (3) DOJ’s wednesday Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, which addresses HIV discrimination in health care settings (http://www.ada.gov/ aids/index.htm), through a partnership between DOJ’s HIV Intervention and Prevention With Black Men who Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorneys’ offices across have sex with men: A Research and Policy Dialogue the country; and (4) HHS OCR’s civil rights enforcement (Session ID: 15) efforts, including the July 2013 termination of Medicaid payments to a California surgeon who refused to Presenters: Christopher Coleman, University of operate on an HIV+ patient (http://www.hhs.gov/news/ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA press/2013pres/07/20130718b.html). Christopher Chauncey Watson, George Washington University Clinical Research Site/HIV Prevention Trials Network, Washington, DC Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Partner Workshop: Location: Imperial 1, Level 4 Health Literacy and Treatment as Prevention: Building Track: High Impact Prevention Better Nurse/Consumer Community Education Efforts Level: Advanced (Session ID: 780)

Participants will gain competencies for developing and Presenters: Carole Treston, Association of Nurses in AIDS tailoring interventions to the unique issues of seropositive Care, Akron, OH aging Black men who have sex with men, and strategies Denise Dandridge, Tulane University, Zachary, LA and methods for using cultural competence to address Pamela Williams, LSUHSC/Mid City Clinic EIC, Baton cultural nuances when conducting research with diverse Rouge, LA populations of men who have sex with men. Location: Strand 13B, Level 2 Track: Treatment and Research Level: Intermediate “Information is Powerful Medicine”: Health Information Privacy and Civil Rights Enforcement (Session ID: 806) Health Literacy for PLWHA is more complex than ever and must be addressed in a holistic manner. As PLWHA live Presenters: Rachel Seeger and Ken Johnson, HHS Office longer, information about co-morbidities and the effects for Civil Rights (OCR), Washington, DC of HIV aging becomes more important. Advances in PrEP Jorge Lozano, HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Region and Treatment as Prevention make medication adherence VI, Dallas, TX education more multifaceted than before. Building nurse Alberto Ruisanchez, U.S. Department of Justice, consumer partnerships to build better health literacy Washington, DC efforts for the HIV community will be explored. Location: Strand 11A, Level 2 Track: Retention in Care and Primary Care and Viral Suppression We’re In It Together: Formal & Informal Networks for Level: Intermediate Accessing PrEP Dialogs and Community Perspective on Treatment as Prevention (Session ID: 308) In health care settings, HIV-related discrimination can take the form of neglect, differential treatment, denial of care Presenters: Kirk Myers and Harold Stewart, Abounding and non-consensual disclosure of HIV status. Stigma and Prosperity, Inc., Dallas, TX discrimination stop many people from getting tested and Dr. Kimberly A. Parker, PhD, MPH, CHES, Texas Woman’s staying in treatment to keep viral loads undetectable. This University, Denton, TX

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Dr. Sabine Eustache, SEJ Associates, Miramar, FL Engaging and Retaining Latinos in HIV Care: Addressing Renato Barucco and Dr. Freddy Molano, Community Barriers to HIV Care (Session ID: 797) Healthcare Network-Bronx Health, New York, NY Location: Imperial 5A, Level 4 Presenters: Oscar R. Lopez, Valley AIDS Council, Track: Treatment and Research Harlingen, TX wednesday Level: Intermediate Richard L. Zaldivar , The Wall Las Memorias, Los Angeles, CA In July 2012, the FDA approved the first drug (Truvada) for Evelyn Ullah, Director, Broward County Health Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of HIV Department, Miami, FL infection in uninfected individuals. Promoting PrEP in Black Location: Imperial 5C, Level 4 communities can be challenging. Challenges invariably point to the need for overcoming people’s lack of Latinos in the United States continue to be knowledge about PrEP, the need for reducing stigma, and disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS, having higher the need for breaking historical backlash associated with rates of both new HIV infections and people living with biomedical prevention research. “We’re In It Together” HIV disease than their white counterparts. Moreover, will focus on education and community mobilization to a number of obstacles contribute to the epidemic in increase awareness about PrEP among several African Latino communities, including poverty, injection drug American sub-populations which may be at higher risk for use, stigma and discrimination, limited access to health contracting HIV. This session will also highlight results from care, and lack of culturally competent health care. As a qualitative study which examined perspectives on pre- the largest, youngest and fastest growing ethnic minority exposure prophylaxis on populations at risk including men group in the U.S., addressing HIV in the Latino community who have sex with men, transgender women, substance takes on increased importance in efforts to address the users, and women of color, and preliminary data on a PrEP epidemic across the country and identifying strategies for group and individual level interventions. engaging Latinos in HIV Care needs immediate attention. Participants will be provided with a wide range of strategies that health care providers may use to reach out A Statewide Collaborative using Motivational to HIV positive Latinos, link them into HIV care, and help Interviewing and Quality Management: An Effort in them remain in treatment. Reducing Community Viral Load and Linking Patients to Care (Session ID: 54) 12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM Presenters: Jennifer Condel, SCT(ASCP), Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA Closing Plenary Luncheon: Implementing the Affordable Kyle Crawford, MSW, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Care Act - A Call to Action! (Session ID: 905) Pittsburgh, PA Location: Imperial 9, Level 4 Presenters: Moderator: Kali Lindsey, Director of Legislative Track: Linkage to HIV Care and Primary Care and Public Affairs, National Minority AIDS Council Level: Beginner Matthew Heinz, MD, Director, Provider Outreach, Office of Intergovernmental & External Affairs, U.S. Department of Up to a third of newly diagnosed HIV-positive patients Health and Human Services don’t return for follow-up medical care within the first Amy Killelea, JD, Associate Director, Health Care Access, year of their diagnosis. Literature provides evidence National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors that motivational interviewing can help retain patients in Deborah Reid, JD, Senior Attorney, National Health Law care and on ARVs. This presentation will showcase how Program (NHelP) social work and motivational interviewing techniques Location: Empire Ballroom, Level 2 played a significant role in the Ryan White-funded AIDS service community throughout Pennsylvania to streamline As USCA draws to an end, the closing plenary will examine operations, create new processes and provide peer what you can do in your community to support efforts to outreach workers with the skills to empower others to re- implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act engage them into medical care. (ACA) and improve the delivery of health care services to people living with HIV. Information will be provided about how you can partner with the federal and local governments to help enroll people in your community into the expanded health programs on October 1, 2013. Key activities taking place at the state level to ensure the

106 Wednesday, September 11 smoothest possible transition for uninsured people living with HIV into private health insurance and Medicaid will also be shared. The plenary will conclude with a message about the critical leadership role that people living with HIV will play in mobilizing their peers and communities toward enrollment in health insurance and engagement in care. wednesday

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NATIONAL AIDS HOUSING COALITION (NAHC) congratulates NMAC on the 2013 U.S. Conference on AIDS

Housing costs are “out of reach” for low income people with HIV/AIDS. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the 2013 national housing wage is $18.79. An American worker must earn this hourly wage working 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year, to afford a two - bedroom rental unit at the fair market rent. According to HUD, 91% of HOPWA clients have extremely low incomes (below 30% of area median income).

Housing is prevention. Research demonstrates a direct and independent relationship between improved housing status and reduction in HIV risk behaviors. Homeless or unstably housed persons are up to six times more likely to engage in risk behaviors than stably housed persons with the same personal and service characteristics. Housing also increases access to antiretroviral medications, which lower viral load and reduce the risk of transmission. Among HIV/AIDS experts there is a growing consensus that HIV prevention strategies will not succeed without attention to housing status and other structural factors that shape or constrain individual behavior.

Housing is cost-effective. Data from two major studies demonstrate that HIV housing investments reduce other public costs by improving the health of PLWHA and preventing new infections, making housing dollars a wise use of limited public resources. In the Chicago Housing for Health Partnership study, savings in avoidable health services more than offset the costs of the CHHP housing program. Preliminary calculations from the CDC and HUD Housing and Health study indicate that housing is a cost effective health care intervention for PLWHA, with a cost per QALY in the same range as HAART and other widely accepted health care interventions such as renal dialysis. Moreover, 95% of HOPWA clients with permanent housing remain stably housed and connected to care.

TURN POLICY INTO ACTION!

Help us educate policy and decision makers about how important housing is for persons living with HIV/AIDS. It is important that your representatives hear from you and know that housing matters to people living in their community.

Visit our website at www.nationalaidshousing.org or call us at (202) 347-0333 to get involved.

If HIV/AIDS Housing matters to you, we invite you to join us at the North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit VII: Closing the Housing Gap in the HIV Treatment Cascade in Montréal, Québéc, September 25-27, 2013, www.hivhousingsummit.org

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RESUMEN DE LAS SESIONES Sesión 5: De 4:30 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. Taller Todas las sesiones se llevan a cabo en Strand 13A, Nivel 2 Barreras y factores de riesgo que afectan el acceso a Sesión 1: De 10:30 a.m. a 12 del MEDIODÍA la asistencia o a los servicios de prevención: Historias y en español Talleres estrategias de un panel de hombres jóvenes, latinos y afroamericanos YSMS VIH+ y VIH (ID de sesión: 246) Preparémonos para la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible (Affordable Care Act, ACA): Seguro médico 101 (ID de sesión: 705) MIÉRCOLES 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE

Seminarios: De 2:30 p.m. a 5:30 p.m. Seminarios: De 8:30 a.m. a 11:30 a.m.

El Plan de Acción: Un plan de educación sobre tratamiento Abordajes innovadores para mejorar las tasas de retención para el siglo XXI. (ID de sesión: 726) y los resultados clínicos de pacientes VIH positivos en Centros de Salud Reconocidos a Nivel Federal (ID de sesión: 565) LUNES 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE

Seminarios: De 8:30 a.m. a 11:30 a.m.

Cómo redactar solicitudes efectivas para conseguir fondos para Prevención de Alto Impacto (ID de sesión: 76)

Sesión 2: De 2:30 pm a 4:00 pm Taller

Enlace con asistencia en el mismo día o en el día hábil siguiente (ID de sesión: 25)

Sesión 3: De 4:30 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. Taller

“Zero Feet Away”: Un informe sobre VIH/SIDA, Sexo sin protección y Aplicaciones móviles (ID de sesión: 415)

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Seminarios: De 8:30 am a 11:30 am

Seminario de la Association of Nurses in AIDS Care – ANAC (Asociación de Enfermeros para Asistencia en SIDA) para parejas: Criminalización del VIH - El impacto en la relación Paciente - Proveedor (ID de sesión: 755)

Sesión 4: De 2:30 p.m. a 4:00 p.m. Taller

Ya lo están tratando: ¿Ahora qué? Como motivar la adherencia al tratamiento de los clientes que viven con VIH para prolongar su vida (ID de sesión: 157)

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Sesión 1: De 10:30 a.m. a 12 del MEDIODÍA SEMINARIOS: De 8:30 a.m. a 11:30 a.m. Talleres Cómo redactar solicitudes efectivas para obtener fondos Preparémonos para la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible para la Prevención de Alto Impacto (ID de sesión: 76) (Affordable Care Act, ACA): Seguro médico 101 (ID de sesión: 705) Disertantes: Stephen Fallon, PhD, Skills4, Ft Lauderdale, FL Disertantes: Andrea Weddle, HIV Medicine Association, Rafaele Narvaez, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL Arlington, VA Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 Amy Killelea, National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Área: Organizaciones y Gestión de cambios en español Directors, Washington, DC Nivel: Avanzado Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 Área: La estrategia de Prevención de Alto Impacto de la CDC Nivel: cambió el financiamiento para las agencias sin fines de lucro. El “cortar y pegar” párrafos de solicitudes Esta sesión ayudará a orientar a los proveedores y pares anteriores ya no alcanzará para obtener nuevos fondos. acerca de términos y conceptos claves de seguros de Los participantes en este seminario práctico verán salud, de modo tal que estén preparados para evaluar los ejemplos reales de redacción de solicitudes de fondos planes de salud que estarán disponibles en el Mercado de (sin los nombres de las agencias), incluyendo algunas Seguros de Salud. solicitudes que obtuvieron adjudicaciones de fondos para la Prevención de Alto Impacto, y algunas que no convencieron a los lectores de contar con la preparación SEMINARIOS: De 2:30 p.m. a 5:30 p.m. suficiente para ofrecer los servicios de prevención y conexión en el orden de prioridad establecido. Al El Plan de Acción: Un proyecto de educación sobre finalizar el seminario, los participantes podrán identificar tratamiento del VIH en el siglo XXI. (ID de sesión: 726) las diferencias entre una solicitud convincente y una que no lo es. Una historia alentadora demostrará cómo Disertantes: David Barr y Sam Avrett, The Fremont Center, incluso las agencias jóvenes pueden competir con éxito Nueva York, NY mediante una cuidadosa redacción. Esta sesión acabará Joseph Elias y Alex Garner, National Minority AIDS con el misterio y la consiguiente ansiedad del proceso Council, Washington, DC de redacción de solicitudes de fondos facilitando a Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 los participantes las herramientas que necesitan para Área: Tratamiento e Investigación competir en el nuevo frente de batalla y obtener el Nivel: Intermedio financiamiento para la Prevención de Alto Impacto.

Este es un seminario práctico en el que los participantes Sesión 2: De 2:30 pm a 4:00 pm trabajarán para completar las actividades y tareas de Taller los grupos de trabajo de la Iniciativa Nacional para la Educación sobre el Tratamiento del VIH y la Enseñanza Enlace con asistencia en el mismo día o en el día hábil de Conocimientos Básicos de Salud y Bienestar siguiente (ID de sesión: 25) (National Treatment Education, Health Literacy and Wellness Initiative). Se facilitará un plan del proyecto Disertantes: Steven Saunders, New Jersey Department of y se discutirán estrategias para su implementación y Health, Trenton, NJ difusión. Están especialmente invitados programadores, Loretta Dutton, New Jersey Department of Health, implementadores, educadores de tratamiento del VIH y Trenton, NJ líderes de la comunidad VIH (PLWH) Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 Área: Conexión con Asistencia en VIH y Atención Primaria Nivel: Intermedio

En la era del Tratamiento como Prevención, el conectar a las personas con VIH con asistencia que les ofrezca tratamiento ARV se ha convertido en una prioridad de los esfuerzos de prevención del VIH en Nueva Jersey.

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El uso de un algoritmo rápido de prueba rápida y la MARTES 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE utilización de “Navigators” (promotores de salud) para la prevención del VIH en las clínicas de mayor volumen de SEMINARIOS: De 8:30 am a 11:30 am NJ para ofrecer asistencia personalizada a las personas con VIH/SIDA de reciente diagnóstico, hacen posible Seminario sobre parejas de la Association of Nurses en español la conexión con asistencia en el mismo día o en el día in AIDS Care - ANAC (Asociación de Enfermeros para hábil siguiente. Los “Navigators” también se ocupan de Asistencia en SIDA): Criminalización del VIH - El impacto volver a conectar a las personas con VIH/SIDA que se en la relación Paciente - Proveedor (ID de sesión: 755) desvincularon de la atención, ofrecen servicios de prueba sin turno previo y brindan servicios de pareja (Partner Disertantes: Kimberly Carbaugh y Carole Treston, Services) para pacientes con VIH de las clínicas. Se han Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Akron, OH establecido colaboraciones locales de enlace a lo largo J. Craig Phillips PhD, RN, School of Nursing, University of de Nueva Jersey, de modo que los "Navigators" trabajen British Columbia, Vancouver, BC con las Organizaciones de Base Comunitaria (CBOs) para Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 la derivación inicial y para ayudar a localizar a aquellos Nivel: Intermedio que se desconectaron de la asistencia. En 10 meses, de 536 pruebas realizadas por los "Navigators”, el 18% dio La preocupación acerca de la criminalización en relación positivo, el 95% de estas personas fueron conectadas con a la transmisión del VIH puede afectar negativamente la asistencia en el mismo día o en el día hábil siguiente; un relación entre el paciente y el proveedor. Los invitamos a total de 479 personas con VIH/SIDA fueron conectadas escuchar los resultados de la investigación conducida por con asistencia. enfermeros de la ANAC, la cual describe cómo el temor a estas leyes restringe el diálogo sincero y obstaculiza el Sesión 3: De 4:30 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. importante rol de los enfermeros en brindar la educación Taller y el apoyo que necesitan las personas con VIH/SIDA para reducir el riesgo. Se identificarán estrategias “Zero Feet Away”: Un informe sobre VIH/SIDA, Sexo sin para el desarrollo de colaboraciones cruciales entre protección y Aplicaciones móviles (ID de sesión: 415) proveedores, pacientes y representantes para combatir la criminalización del VIH. Disertantes: Renato Barucco y Luis Freddy Molano, Community Healthcare Network, Nueva York, NY Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 Sesión 4: De 2:30 p.m. a 4:00 p.m. Área: Prevención de Alto Impacto Taller Nivel: Intermedio Enlace con la Asistencia: ¿Ahora qué? Como motivar la Los autores reunieron actitudes respecto al VIH/SIDA y adherencia al tratamiento de los clientes que viven con el sexo anal sin protección entre hombres que tienen VIH para una vida más prolongada (ID de sesión: 157) relaciones con hombres (MSM) que conocieron a sus parejas sexuales utilizando aplicaciones de red en sus Disertantes: teléfonos celulares. El número de hombres que usan esta Stephen Fallon, PhD, Skills4, Ft Lauderdale, FL tecnología para conocer a sus parejas sexuales estables Gregory Timmer, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL u ocasionales ha aumentado desde 1999. Resulta de Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 fundamental importancia recopilar información acerca de Área: Tratamiento e Investigación las actitudes de los usuarios de aplicaciones móviles en Nivel: Intermedio torno al VIH/SIDA y a las relaciones sin protección para diseñar iniciativas de prevención específicas y evaluar las La estrategia de Prevención de Alto Impacto de la CDC ya existentes. busca asegurar el diagnóstico y enlace con tratamiento de 125.000 personas más que actualmente viven con VIH. Para alcanzar este ambicioso objetivo, los profesionales médicos y el personal de apoyo de las Organizaciones de Servicio de SIDA (ASOs) y de Organizaciones de Base Comunitaria (CBOs) deben ahora trabajar en equipo. Esta sesión ofrecerá a los gestores de casos (“case managers”), al personal de prevención y a los especialistas en enlace con asistencia las herramientas que necesitan para informar y motivar a los clientes que

116 En Español piensan iniciar tratamiento o reingresar a la asistencia. A MIÉRCOLES 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE diferencia de la mayoría de las charlas sobre tratamiento de VIH, este taller utilizará ilustraciones y estudios de SEMINARIOS: De 8:30 AM a 11:30 AM casos claros y accesibles de manera que los profesionales no médicos puedan apoyar de manera significativa la Enfoques innovadores para mejorar las tasas de retención cascada de tratamientos. El taller incluirá una analogía y los resultados clínicos de pacientes VIH positivos en que muestra cómo las estrategias de tratamiento de Centros de Salud Reconocidos a Nivel Federal (ID de VIH han evolucionado con el tiempo. Además, mostrará sesión: 565) cómo los tratamientos modernos pueden prolongar vidas productivas. La sesión concluirá con un emocionante Disertantes: Thomas Siegmeth, MPH, CHES y Angel anticipo de estrategias de tratamiento radicalmente Rosario, AltaMed Health Services Corporation, Los nuevas en proceso de desarrollo que pueden cambiar Ángeles, CA en español todo lo que usted pensó que sabía acerca del tratamiento Michaela Hoffman, MPH y Shaddai Martinez-Cuestas, del VIH. MPH, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, San Francisco, CA Sesión 5: De 4:30 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 Taller Área: Retención en Asistencia/Atención Primaria y Supresión Viral Barreras y factores de riesgo que afectan el acceso a Nivel: Intermedio la asistencia o a los servicios de prevención: Historias y estrategias de un panel de hombres jóvenes, latinos La retención en la asistencia juega un papel cada vez más y afroamericanos VIH+ y VIH-, que tienen relaciones importante en la estrategia para acabar con la epidemia sexuales con hombres (ID de sesión: 246) de SIDA; por consiguiente, el desafío consiste ahora en asegurar que las organizaciones puedan identificar Disertantes: Obed Caballero, Jose Javier y Gregory y eliminar las barreras estructurales que obstaculizan el Timmer, Latinos Salud, Wilton Manors, FL compromiso. Los sistemas de información de salud están Lugar: Strand 13A, Nivel 2 prometiendo herramientas para identificar sistemática Área: Conexión con Asistencia en VIH y Atención Primaria y eficientemente a clientes que se encuentran sin Nivel: Inicial asistencia y también a quienes están siendo asistidos de manera deficiente. Conozca de qué manera dos Centros Todos hemos escuchado la frase “hacer la prueba y Reconocidos a Nivel Federal, Mission Neighborhood tratar” / "test and treat." Sin embargo, existen muchas Health Center en San Francisco y AltaMed Health Services razones por las que algunos hombres jóvenes, latinos Corporation en Los Ángeles, han establecido estrategias y afroamericanos YMSM, tienen dificultades para para mejorar las tasas de retención: 1) mejorando el acceder a la asistencia y a los servicios de prevención o Registro Electrónico de Salud (EHR) y los sistemas de para permanecer en los programas una vez inscriptos. información, 2) participando en programas de retención En este taller podrá escuchar a hombres jóvenes — tales como la campaña In+care, y 3) adaptando la latinos y afroamericanos YMSM, que representan a estructura organizacional y las estrategias de retención las comunidades VIH + y VIH –, y recibir información para promover el compromiso con la asistencia y mejorar de primera mano no solo sobre sus experiencias en el los resultados clínicos de pacientes VIH positivos. trabajo con sus pares sino también sobre sus historias personales en relación a las mismas barreras que enfrentan los clientes. Al finalizar el taller, los participantes estarán en condiciones de identificar las barreras comunes que afectan las decisiones de los hombres jóvenes YMSM o incluso su capacidad de acceder a la asistencia y a los servicios que podrían ayudarlos, y también de describir las estrategias por implementar para ayudar a superar estas barreras. Los facilitadores concluirán con un debate abierto para que otras personas compartan sus desafíos y estrategias a nivel local.

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS Presented by: Michael Anderson-Nathe and Joseph Sedillo, Cascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR Monday, September 9, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm poster presentations Getting to Zero in Minneapolis, Minnesota: Reducing Tuesday, September 10, 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm HIV Infections in African Americans through Community Mobilization Location: Empire Foyer, Level 2 Presented by: William Larson, Park House, Minneapolis, MN A Comprehensive Case Management Approach to Linking and Retaining Hard to Reach Populations in Care HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Treatment for Asian Presented by: Shamell Lavigne, Lindsay Allen and Danette Americans: Advancing Evidence-based Practices for Brown, Volunteers of America Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Underserved Ethnic Communities in Los Angeles Rouge, LA Presented by: Stacy To, APAIT Health Center, Los Angeles, CA Atlanta’s Collaborative HIV/AIDS Network for Growth and Empowerment (CHANGE) Project – A coordinated Improving Access to Condoms for At-Risk Youths in New effort to integrate multidisciplinary services for individuals Orleans with HIV/AIDS and a mental health and/or substance Presented by: Petera Reine and Mary Freyder, NO AIDS abuse disorder Task Force, New Orleans, LA Presented by: Donato Clarke, Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA Integrated HIV Screening in Emergency Room & Outpatient Operations: Lessons Learned Best Practices: HIV Linkage to Care Program Presented by: Elijah Cheek, Providence Hospital, Presented by: Peter McGrath, University of Rochester/ Washington, DC Center for Health and Behavioral Training, Rochester, New York Integrating Routine HIV Testing In an Urban Chicago Hospital Emergency Department Using a Hybrid Testing Characterizing gaps in the HIV care cascade: An example Model from a New York City HIV housing program Presented by: Octavia Richmond Presented by: Laura McAllister-Hollod, MPH, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, Knowing Your Status is a Beautiful Thing: Preliminary NY results from the implementation of Beauty in Knowing, an HIV prevention program for African-American women in a Community Partners/Working with HIV/AIDS Community cosmetology school setting Advisory Boards Worldwide Presented by: Dafina Ward, AIDS Alabama, Birmingham, Presented by: Russell Campbell, Office of HIV/AIDS AL Network Coordination (HANC) Katie Pittenger, Collaborative Solutions, Atlanta, GA

Effectiveness of Yoga of the Breath for People Living with Linkage to care, retention and viral suppression in HIV Program for Increasing Self-Efficacy and enhancing persons tested at public HIV testing sites in Louisiana Quality of Life for PLWHIV Presented by: Deborah Wendell, Louisiana STD/HIV Presented by: Dr. Francesca Jackson, Yoga of the Breath, Program, New Orleans, LA Washington, DC Living with HIV at the US-Mexico Border: Low Levels of Engaging Black Immigrant Communities of Philadelphia in Sexual HIV Risk Among MSM HIV Testing Presented by: Bryan Kutner, University of Washington, Presented by: Rahab Wahome, AIDS Care Group, Sharon Seattle, WA Hill, PA Helena Kwakwa, Philadelphia Department of Public Mobilizing the House/Ball Community around Health, Philadelphia, PA Preventative and Therapeutic HIV Clinical Research Presented by: Stephaun Wallace and Damon Humes, Fred Expanding Clinical Capacity of Community-Based Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA Organizations

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Online Institutes: Using Innovative Multi-Week, e-Learning Performance: lessons from five medical care programs in Courses to Build HIV Prevention Capacity the District of Columbia Presented by: Jeremy Holman, JSI Research & Training Presented by: Christie Olejemeh, Doh/HAHSTA, Institute, Boston, MA Washington, DC Elena Thomas Faulkner, JSI Research & Training Institute, Denver, CO Utilizing the Response Team Model in Regional HIV Quality Improvement Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection Among HIV- Presented by: Justin Britanik, DC Department of Health - Infected Adults in the United States HAHSTA, Washington, DC Presented by: Benjamin Grin, Providence, RI Working in the Garden: Culturally Appropriate and Outcomes of Evidenced Based Group Interventions for Sensitive Rapid HIV Testing at the Bathhouse Minority women Coping with HIV and Childhood Sexual Presented by: Ethan Giang and Malaya Arevalo, Asian

Abuse Americans for Community Involvement, San Jose, CA poster presentations Presented by: Eula W. Pines, DNP, PhD, PMHCNS, BC, San Antonio, TX Improving the Reach of HIV Testing in Jails Presented by: Anne Spaulding, Emory University, Atlanta, Pattern of Cognitive Deficits Among People Living With GA HIV on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Workforce Challenges for High-Priority Prevention in Presented by: Andrea M. LaPlante, PsyD and Phillip T. Resource Limited Times Griffin, PhD, LSUHSC HIV Outpatient Clinic, New Orleans, Presented by: Deborah McLean and Alfredo Hernandez LA EDC, Waltham, MA

Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization among HIV-positive and HIV-negative injection drug users Presented by: Nina Leung, UTHSC - School of Public Health, Houston, TX

Racial Disparities in Bacterial Vaginosis and Associated Risks for HIV-1 Acquisition Presented by: Donald J. Alcendor, Project SAVED, Meharry Medical College, Nashville TN

Skills-Based Training for CBO and HD Presented by: Ann Verdine, Keith Bletzer and Frank Olivas, National Community Health Partners, Tucson AZ

SPIRIT Study: Switching to the Singlet-Tablet Regimen (STR) Rilpivirine/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir DF (RPV/FTC/ TDF; Complera®) from a Ritonavir-Boosted Protease Inhibitor (PI+RTV) Regimen Maintains Virologic Suppression and Improves Patient Satisfaction Presented by: Bethsheba Johnson, MSN, CNS, GNP-BC, AACRN, Houston, TX Ruben Gamundi, San Francisco, CA

STaR Study: Single Tablet Regimen Complera (Rilpivirine/ Emtricitabine/Tenofovir DF) Has Non-Inferior Efficacy Compared to Atripla (Efavirenz/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir DF) and Improves Patient Reported Outcomes Presented by: Staci Bush Wooley, PA-C, Foster City, CA Amadou Diagne, New York City, NY

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The M∙A∙C AIDS Fund’s mission is to serve people of all organization that is the custodian of The AIDS Memorial sponsors ages, all races and all sexes affected by HIV and AIDS. To Quilt and its associated document and media archive. The partner with the bold, the visionary and the brave who mission of The NAMES Project Foundation is to preserve, confront the epidemic in countries and communities where care for, and use the AIDS Memorial Quilt to foster people are most neglected, off the radar and at highest healing, heighten awareness, and inspire action in the risk. Responsible, agile and alert, MAF funds innovative struggle against HIV and AIDS. programs that deal directly with the most marginalized, stigmatized and under-heard victims. MAF celebrates humanity, life, creativity and individuality. Making a NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL difference one VIVA GLAM lipstick at a time. AIDS DIRECTORS (NASTAD) 444 North Capitol Street, NW Suite 339 NATIONAL AIDS HOUSING COALITION Washington, DC 20001 727 15th Street NW, 11th Floor Tel: (202) 434-8090 Washington, DC 20005-2168 Fax: (202) 434-8092 Tel: (202) 347-0333 www.nastad.org www.nationalaidshousing.org The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS The National AIDS Housing Coalition is a national Directors (NASTAD) represents the nation's chief state nonprofit housing organization founded in 1994 in the health agency staff who have programmatic responsibility belief that people with HIV/AIDS have a fundamental for administering HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis healthcare, right to decent, safe, affordable housing and supportive prevention, education, and supportive service programs services, responsive and appropriate to their self- funded by state and federal governments. NASTAD is determined needs. NAHC works to end the HIV/AIDS dedicated to reducing the incidence of HIV/AIDS and viral epidemic by ensuring that persons with HIV/AIDS have hepatitis infections in the U.S. and its territories, providing quality, affordable and appropriate housing Financed by comprehensive, compassionate, and high-quality care to member dues, foundation grants and individual donations, all persons living with HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis, and NAHC is governed by a diverse board of directors ensuring responsible public policies. NASTAD provides representing communities in 12 states and the District of national leadership to achieve these goals, and to educate Columbia, with vast personal and professional experience about and advocate for the necessary federal funding as AIDS housing developers, providers, residents and AIDS to achieve them, as well as to promote communication housing advocates. NAHC’s contributions to AIDS housing between state and local health departments and HIV/AIDS include training, educating and sharing experiences and viral hepatitis care and treatment programs. NASTAD through work in coalitions, AIDS housing institutes, supports and encourages the use of applied scientific research summits and workshops at conferences across the knowledge and input from affected communities to guide country as well as on-going advocacy with policymakers the development of effective policies and programs. in Congress, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget and other relevant agencies to ensure that government policies are responsive to the housing and service needs of people with HIV/AIDS, including those who are homeless or unstably housed.

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NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN AIDS PREVENTION Terry Estes CENTER (NNAAPC) Eric Evans 720 S. Colorado Blvd. Katherine Eyester Suite 650-S Sergio Farfan Denver, CO 80246 Kenyon Farrow Tel: (720) 382-2244 Laura Finnegan sponsors Fax: (720) 382-2248 Julie Fitch www.nnaapc.org Jasmine Fournier Jessica Fridge The mission of the National Native American AIDS Kira Radtke Friedrich Prevention Center (NNAAPC) is to stop the spread of Peter Gamache HIV/AIDS and related diseases among American Indians, Carol Giles Alaskan Natives and Native Hawaiians and to improve DeAnn Gruber the quality of life for members of our community who are Craig Hankins infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. Darlene Hargrove Deon Haywood The work we do is extremely important and we welcome Earl Richard Hicks the involvement and participation of all persons who have Kerry Hughes a commitment to fight this epidemic. Mark Johnson Monica Johnson Christy Jones USCA HOST COMMITTEE Opal Joseph Jeff Kiemen Dorian-Gray Alexander Shamell Lavigne Karen Bennett Fran Lawless Darreen Berniard Melanie Lawrence Lynn Besch Bridget Lee Jacky Bickham Susan Levingston Rocy Block David Little Cassandra Bookman Stephen Loria Shaquita Borden Kaitlyn Marchesano Brandi Bowen D'Ann McGary Danette Brown Issa Moquete Gina Brown Kim Moss Ty Bryant Nicholas Parr Sam Burgess Crystal Payne Amy Busby Robin Pearce Carlos Butler Tamara Pierre Rainey Campbell Melanie Powers Jack Carrel Jean Redman Eddie Cavin Steve Rivera Vatsana Chanthala Rheneisha Robertson Carlos Choucino Billy Robinson Megan Coleman-Watkins Sr Marcy Romine, OSF Chan Crawford Millie Sarpy Kirsten Darbyshire Annie Sawyer-Williams Chris Daunis John G. Simms Drew Davenport Wayne Sizemore Tamachia Davenport Erika Sugimori Sharon DeCuir Sabrina Taylor MarkAlain Dery Noel Twilbeck Danielle Detiege Megha Upadhyaya Natalie Dietz Allison Vertovec Christina Duhon Christopher Walker Liana Elliott Tonja Walston

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Gerald Watson Vicki Weeks Debbie Wendell Susan Wible Ronald Wilcox Lisa Wiley Mary Elizabeth Wilkes Cendra Williams Trina Evans Williams Della Wright sponsors

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