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9th National Harm Reduction Conference FROM PUBLIC HEALTH TO SOCIAL JUSTICE HIV/AIDS, Life after Positive Diagnosis, Safe Sex, Risk Reduction to Lower the Transmission or Contracting Rate of Infection. HIV Statistic Rate in MSM ( Men that have Sex with Men), Women, IV Drug Use, How to Reduce the Risk of HIV HepC while Injecting Drugs, Importance of Needle Exchange Programs, What is Philadelphia FIGHT (Programs) Resource Guide, AIDS Library, AIDS Education Month. Philadelphia FIGHT Service’s and Being Positive State-of-the-art, Client-Centered Treatment- The Jonathan Lax Treatment Center practices primary-care HIV medicine in a “one-stop shop.” If you have HIV, our mission is to serve you for life, regardless of insurance or ability to pay. Philadelphia FIGHT (FIGHT) is a comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines. FIGHT was formed as a partnership of individuals living with HIV/AIDS and clinicians, who joined together to improve the lives of people living with the disease. Project TEACH (Treatment Education Activists Combating HIV) is an innovative health education program which trains people living with HIV/AIDS to act as peer educators, activists and advocates in the under-served communities hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic—low-income communities TEACH focuses not only on prevention but treatment education, outreach and advocacy. Peer Education and support groups. Nancy Gunnarson is a HIV Positive Women that works for Philadelphia FIGHT as a Tester and Counselor an outreach Former Heroin Addict an Methadone and clean for 8yrs. A Graduate of Project TEACH and TEACH Outside,Peer Educator, Graduate of AmeriCorps, Member of the Positive Women’s Network, ACT-UP Philly member, Advocate for the Homeless, Advocate for Philadelphia Needle Exchange Program, making a Difference in the Community. Co Presenter Roy Hayes Gustafson, Hadley, North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Carrboro, NC hadleyg23@gmail.com Media Activism for Harm Reduction Workshop Journalism is a powerful tool in the quest for human rights and social justice for some of the most vulnerable populations. There is an authenticity and persuasiveness in seeing people and hearing or reading their direct words, or first-person testimony, that cannot be matched. The North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition has used media to tell the stories of drug users, sex workers, law enforcement, and people of transgender experience, immigrant farm workers and more. Learn how you can use video, photography and written articles to educate about and advocate for harm reduction issues and further your mission, how to find subjects and get them participate, how to conduct a successful interview, and how to do everything on a budget. Hadley Gustafson believes that journalism is a powerful tool in the quest for human rights and social justice. In addition to being videographer for the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, Hadley is also currently a volunteer for the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. Hadley graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication with an MA in multimedia journalism (documentary storytelling and motion graphics) in December 2011. Robert Childs, MPH, has served as NCHRC’s Executive Director since 2009 and was just named one of five people who made a difference in HIV in the USA in 2011 by thebody.com. In addition to performing executive functions, he is involved in all program activities including service delivery, program design, innovation and evaluation, resource development and organizing. Tessie Castillo serves as NCHRC’s Harm Reduction Coordinator. Tessie runs NCHRC’s outreach (incarcerated, drug user, sex worker and migrant laborer), education and advocacy programs and is NCHRC lead reporter for NCHRC media pieces. 50
9th National Harm Reduction Conference FROM PUBLIC HEALTH TO SOCIAL JUSTICE Haase, Heather, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY hhaase@msn.com International Drug Policy 101 Heather Haase is an attorney and an advocate for harm reduction and drug law reform at the international level. In the last few years she has traveled to Budapest to study the international drug control treaties, and has partnered with Harm Reduction Coalition to advocate for overdose prevention and other harm reduction measures at the annual sessions of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna. She currently serves as Chair of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Drugs & the Law, and authors the blog FullCircle US, a light-hearted look at the UN and the international drug control system. When she is not making fun of the UN, she practices law at the New York office of Carlton Fields. Hall, Aunsha, Latino Commission on AIDS, NY, NY Coleman, Dorinda, North Jersey Community Research Institute, Newark, NJ ahall@latinoaids.org Ring the Alarm, We Have a Fire to Put Out!: Using a Harm Reduction Approach to enhance Protective Factors Among Black MSM Historically, HIV prevention has been operating from a risk based perspective. This risk based perspective zooms in on the deficits of individuals which can keep them in the pre-contemplation and not willing to overcome barriers to changing behaviors. A strength based approach enhances the protective factors of individual, therefore, allowing them to be transparent around traumatic experiences and using that as a fuel in moving them from pre-contemplation to contemplation. Incorporating strength based practices to deflect trauma can be a viable support for service providers who are implementing evidence based interventions to Black MSM. Overall this workshop focuses on addressing social and structural determinants while balancing risk based HIV prevention work with their strength based counterparts. Aunsha Hall is a capacity building specialist with Latino Commission on AIDS. Prior to that, Aunsha served as Manager of LGBT Services at North Jersey Community Research Initiative, one of New Jersey’s largest comprehensive AIDS service organizations, based out of Newark, NJ. Hall has been working in the non-profit for the past 10 years, primarily with those most at risk for HIV/ AIDS as well as with other populations that experience social and economic hardships. Currently Hall working on is Masters in Leadership and Public Administration at Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ, and is a proud graduate of the University of Kentucky where he received is B.S. in Family Studies. Dorinda Coleman is a Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator with North Jersey Community Research Initiative. Dorinda has dedicated her work to integrating HIV and substance abuse programming for various populations, while introducing a mental health component to that integration. A native of Newark, NJ, Dorinda has been an advocate to insure the social equality of minority populations and those that have been marginalized along the way. Ms. Coleman is a graduate of Kean University located in Union, NJ, where she received her B.S. in Psychology. Dorinda is also a certified alcohol and drug counselor with Straight and Arrow located in Paterson, NJ. Han, Jennifer, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, MD jennifer.han@baltimorecity.gov The Need for HIV Care Linkage through Syringe Exchange Syringe exchange programs (SEPs) are cost-effective and evidence-based interventions that reduce HIV and Hepatitis virus 51
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