AIDS 2012 - Programme-at-a-Glance ▲ CDC e-HAP FYI Updates: Attending IAS 2012? Don’t Miss DHAP’s Satellite Session on High-Impact Prevention.

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YOU’RE INVITED

AIDS 2012 SATELLITE SESSION

High-Impact HIV Prevention:

Reducing the Epidemic in the United States

A Discussion with CDC, White House, and other HIV Prevention Leaders

SUNDAY, JULY 22

3:45 to 5:45 pm ET

Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Session Room 5

XIX International AIDS Conference

(Conference registration required)

Reducing the burden of HIV in the United States is a daunting goal, but one that can be achieved.

Please join the nation’s HIV prevention leaders at a special AIDS 2012 satellite session, for an engaging discussion about the future of HIV prevention in the United States and to hear about exciting new strategies that are enabling us to work smarter with limited resources.

The National HIV/AIDS Strategy, recent scientific breakthroughs, and growing leadership in hard-hit communities provide great hope for the future of HIV prevention. But the challenges remain significant – over 1.1 million people are living with HIV; 50,000 Americans become infected every year; one in five Americans living with HIV is unaware of their infection; and poverty, complacency, and stigma continue to fuel the epidemic.

CDC’s High-Impact Prevention approach – prioritizing resources toward the most cost-effective, scalable interventions, aligned with the epidemiology and geography of the epidemic – is being adopted around the country. This approach is essential to achieving the goals of NHAS and ultimately the vision of an AIDS-free America.

The session will feature case studies, innovative ways to use surveillance and modeling, discussion among expert panelists, and audience Q&A.

Speakers:

Jonathan Mermin, MD, MPH; Director, CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP)
High-Impact Prevention and the Future of the HIV Epidemic in America

Grant Colfax, MD, MPH; Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy; former Director, HIV Prevention and Research, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Ongoing Implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Wayne Duffus, MD, PhD; STD/HIV Medical Director, South Carolina Department of Health
Implementing High-Impact Prevention in South Carolina 

June Gipson, PhD; CEO, My Brother’s Keeper (Mississippi)
The View from a Community-Based Organization

Irene Hall, PhD; Branch Chief, DHAP HIV Incidence and Case Surveillance Branch
Using HIV Surveillance to Achieve High-Impact Prevention

Stephanie Sansom, PhD, MPP, MPH; Team Lead, DHAP Prevention Economics Team
Modeling to Identify Optimal Combinations of Interventions and Allocation of Resources

Moderated by Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD; Director, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention

To add this session to your AIDS 2012 itinerary planner:

  1. Visit the Program-at-a-Glance

  2. Log in with the username and password you created when registering for the conference

  3. Search for the session number “SUSA58” (without quotes)

  4. Click the box under “Itinerary.”