National Latino HIV and Hepatitis C Conference - National Latino HIV and Hepatitis C Conference

The 2018 National Latino HIV/Hepatitis C Conference

Vision:

The 2018 National Latino HIV and Hepatitis C Conference aims to create opportunities to share information and efforts around HIV and Hepatitis C in the Latino population by bridging the varied disciplines of education, advocacy, and clinical care, among others.

The conference goals are to:

Increase knowledge, communication skills and respectful attitudes towards Latinos living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C.
Increase awareness of the cultural and social barriers faced by Latinos in seeking/receiving treatment, care, and prevention services for HIV and Hepatitis C.
Increase understanding of the disproportionate impact HIV and Hepatitis C infection rates have among Latino communities.
Increase ability to develop culturally tailored medical practices and interventions that support Latino patients in achieving viral suppression.
Increase capacity of organizations to provide services that are both health equitable and health literate.

Topics Discussed:

Social Determinants of Health

Reproductive Health

HIV/HCV Prevention and Treatment

Access To Care

Violence and Exploitation

Health Literary and Equity

Las Jeringas - Intravenous Drug Use

Mujeres Poderosas

Poder Juvenil

MSM

Treatment as Prevention

Border Issues

CME Accreditation Statement:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) through the joint providership of Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Health System and Valley AIDS Council. Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Health System is accredited by TMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Potential Attendees:

Providers in care related to HIV, STDs, reproductive health, hepatitis, disease prevention, and health promotion

Primary and public health care providers

Clinical prescribers: physicians, advance practice nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists

Nurses, social workers, counselors

Mental health and substance use care providers

Outreach workers, case managers, patient navigators

Researchers exploring epidemiology, community, psychosocial, and physical aspects of sexual health

Educators

Health and Health Policy Advocates

Nursing Accreditation Statement:

"Doctors Hospital At Renaissance Health System is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the

Texas Nurses Association – Approver, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.”

“This CNE activity has been jointly provided by Doctors Hospital At Renaissance Health System collaboratively with Valley AIDS Council Westbrook Clinic.

Keynote Speakers

Edward M. Gardner, M.D. Dr. Gardner is the Medical Director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic and the Center for Positive Health at Denver Public Health, part of the public hospital system in Denver, CO (Denver Health). He is the director of HIV Clinical Research at Denver Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Gardner completed medical school at the University of Chicago – Pritzker School of Medicine and his internal medicine training at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. After four years in community health and correctional medicine he completed his infectious diseases training at the University of Colorado Denver in 2005. His main areas of research interest are engagement in HIV care, adherence to antiretroviral therapy, and antiretroviral resistance. His clinical interests include diagnosis, treatment, and management of HIV infection including the management of resistant HIV infection and the clinical complications of HIV/AIDS. In 2011, Dr. Gardner and colleagues published on the HIV prevention and care continuum.

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