Comments on: National HIV Prevention Conference – Highlights of Final Day http://blog.aids.gov/2011/08/national-hiv-prevention-conference-highlights-of-final-day.html HIV Policy & Programs. Research. New Media. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:58:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: AIDS.gov http://blog.aids.gov/2011/08/national-hiv-prevention-conference-highlights-of-final-day.html#comment-18651 AIDS.gov Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:11:49 +0000 http://blog.aids.gov/?p=3628#comment-18651 Hi Sharon,

Thank you for your comment. The National HIV Prevention Conference is open to the public, and it is held every other year. There is a registration fee, but competitive scholarships have been offered in past years. Visit the website at http://www.2011nhpc.org/ or follow NHPC on Twitter or Facebook for updates on the 2013 conference.

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Best,
The AIDS.gov Team

]]> By: Consuelo Beck-Sague' http://blog.aids.gov/2011/08/national-hiv-prevention-conference-highlights-of-final-day.html#comment-15888 Consuelo Beck-Sague' Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:08:43 +0000 http://blog.aids.gov/?p=3628#comment-15888 How moving Phill’s comments must have been. It would be so cool to get a pod-cast or video of the closing session. I’m inspired. And I’m keeping on, at least one more day…

]]> By: Taxi Sacramento http://blog.aids.gov/2011/08/national-hiv-prevention-conference-highlights-of-final-day.html#comment-15575 Taxi Sacramento Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:08:38 +0000 http://blog.aids.gov/?p=3628#comment-15575 It is also important to appreciate that AIDS is not simply another shock to rural livelihoods, and that
AIDS morbidity and mortality differ from illness and death due to, for example, malaria. Barnett &
Whiteside (2001) and many others point out that HIV and AIDS differ because (among other reasons)
• The long incubation period means the disease remains invisible while it spreads and the burden
cumulates
• Stigma: which manifests itself in a range of forms of denial (silence, unwillingness to speak,
from village to national levels), discrimination (land-grabbing, loss of work, loss of income as
vendors are shunned) and psychosocial stress (depression).
• The lack of treatment or even adequate care for the ill, aggravating the burdens on others and
speeding up the progression to late-stage AIDS.
• Since infection was equated with death, before rapid tests, good care, and treatment, people greet
the disease with fatalism
• Concentration in a household: because of sexual transmission as the primary mode of
transmission in Africa, it enters through the male or female head, and spreads. The “ABC”
approach (abstinence, be faithful, or use a condom) approach to prevention was incompatible
with aims of fertility and inacceptabilty of condom use within marriage, thus the disease has
spread rapidly.
• The disease affects the community, through burdens of care, funerals, orphans, and elderly and
breakdown of networ and work groups; as well as stigma

]]> By: Sharon http://blog.aids.gov/2011/08/national-hiv-prevention-conference-highlights-of-final-day.html#comment-15307 Sharon Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:25:55 +0000 http://blog.aids.gov/?p=3628#comment-15307 I would like to attend the next National HIV Prevention Confrence. I just learned about it today through an email. Who can attend and what must I do to become involved? I am passionate about HIV Prevention and would like to advocate on behalf of others who may not have a voice or afraid because of stigma and fear of rejection. I would like to become an activist. Please add me to your mailing list and emails. I pray that someone reponds to this comment.

]]> By: Lisa Britt http://blog.aids.gov/2011/08/national-hiv-prevention-conference-highlights-of-final-day.html#comment-15249 Lisa Britt Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:48:14 +0000 http://blog.aids.gov/?p=3628#comment-15249 This was a wonderful conference that have attended. I came to the preconference on Saturday at the Marriott Marquis. I realized that there are a lot of people that really care about this patients like myself. Networking with the Domestic Violence Against Women is a bridge that needs to continue to take place to help each other. My organization challenge the Butterfly Girls, LLC is about enhancing lives of adults and children who have been infected and affected with HIV/AIDS with education, motivation, and sharing my testimony.

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