Targeted Paths to HIV Prevention - CDC - Grand Rounds

CDC's Grand Rounds Webcast Targets HIV Prevention on Thursday, December 16, at 1 p.m. (EST).
Next Presentation: Targeted Paths to HIV Prevention

Grand Rounds

The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly series created to further strengthen CDC’s common scientific culture and foster discussion and debate on major public health issues. Each session of the Public Health Grand Rounds will focus on key issues and challenges related to a specific health topic, including cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different interventions. The sessions will also highlight how CDC is already addressing these challenges and discuss the recommendations for future research and practice.

Thursday, December 16

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. E.S.T.
Targeted Paths to HIV Prevention

Watch the live broadcast at:
http://cdc.wl.miisolutions.net/live/cdc/6

For slower or dial-up connections:
http://cdc.wl.miisolutions.net/live/cdc/7

NOTE: presention will be archived 48 hours following the live event

On June 5, 1981, the MMWR became the first scientific publication to report cases of a mysterious disease that came to be known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). During the next 30 years, this pandemic claimed as many as 25 million lives. In the United States, where the HIV epidemic has taken the lives of more than 600,000 Americans, we now have a new National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which is leading a more coordinated Federal response. This strategy aims to ensure that new prevention methods are identified and that prevention resources are most strategically aimed at persons and communities at high risk.

The Federal response to the global fight against HIV/AIDS, through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, has resulted in tremendous public health impact and strengthened health systems—resulting in life-saving antiretroviral treatment for over 3.2 million people worldwide. Although there have been great strides in the fight against this epidemic, today there are still more than 33 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Now, more than ever before, global prevention efforts need concentrated scale-up of evidence-based interventions that can be used to substantially impact the epidemic.

This session of Grand Rounds will address the renewed focus on prevention and the importance of evidence-based, tailored HIV prevention strategies and interventions targeting specific settings and populations globally and here at home.

Presented by:

Debbi Birx, MD
Director, Division of Global HIV/AIDS
Center for Global Health, CDC
Title: Prevention - Why Again and Why Now?

Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH
Director, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC
Title: New Approaches to HIV Prevention in the United States

James A. Mercy, PhD
Division of Violence Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
Title: Targeting Vulnerable Populations—a Focus on Gender-based Violence

Thomas Farley, MD, MPH
Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Title: Effective Implementation of HIV Prevention Efforts at the City Level


Facilitated by:

Tanja Popovic, MD, PhD, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Shane Joiner, Communication Manager, Public Health Grand Rounds

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