AIDS in the African Diaspora

Text Box: Kathy Sanders-Phillips, Ph.D. Professor of
   Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Howard
University, DC; Executive Director, DC-
   Baltimore Research Center in Child Health
   Disparities
Faye Belgrave, Ph.D. Professor & Director,
   Center for Cultural Experiences, Department of
   Psychology,Virginia Commonwealth University,
   Richmond,VA
Lula Beatty, Ph.D. Chief, Special Populations Office National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD
Kristal Owens, Ph.D. Project Director,
   Amani Project, Progressive Life Center, Washington, D.C.
Keith Crawford, R. Ph., Ph.D., Clinical Director,   National Minority AIDS Education and Training, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Latoya Conner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, George Washington University;                 Children’s National Medical Center; Washington, D.C.
Adrien Nginamau Ngudiankama, Ph.D.
    Consultant on HIV/AIDS, Center for Youth &     Family Research, Bowie State University, MD

Student Roundtable:
Rahisha Bivens, Vice President, Black Student Union
   (BSU)
Haylen Frasier, Parliamentarian, BSU
Teresa Johnson, Vice-President, United Caribbean
   Club (UCC)
Miguel Miranda, President, Latin American Student
   Organization (LASO)
Martha Escobar, Vice-President, LASO

Conference Schedule

Text Box: Topics include:
§         HIV Prevention Among African American Women
§         “HIV Prevention for Women in South Africa: Lessons Learned.”
§         “HIV Disease in Africa and the African Diaspora: Triumphs and Challenges"
§         Mechanistic/reductionistic approaches in HIV/AIDS prevention: rediscovering the African therapeutic philosophy of wellbeing".
§         Risk Reduction and Medication Adherence among HIV + youth
§         Student Roundtable discussion
§         ”Drug Abuse, HIV and Criminalization in African
       Americans: Using Research for Change."
§         Using a Comprehensive Rites of Passage Program as a HIV Prevention Approach for Youth.

Student Roundtable:

Rahisha Bivens, Vice President, Black Student Union

(BSU)

Haylen Frasier, Parliamentarian, BSU

Teresa Johnson, Vice-President, United Caribbean

Club (UCC)

Miguel Miranda, President, Latin American Student

Organization (LASO)

Martha Escobar, Vice-President, LASO

Conference Schedule

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