Drew Wood-Palmer STD/STI presentation at HIV Next Generation Conference 2019
This FAQ is meant to answer a set of common questions and answers intended to help you enroll in and better understand your coverage through Covered California. This guide is designed specifically to help people living with HIV and hepatitis C and people considering preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
The participants will acquire current information about HIV/AIDS, its transmission and assessing how great the risk for HIV is for the each of them. Then the participants will be in a better position to determine the pros and cons of getting an HIV test. This training encourages participants to envision a future achieving the goals they have set. Emphasis is placed on the youths’ potential for success and happiness, and how they can reach these goals.
In order to gain insight into the nature of how people discuss sexual topics such as AIDS with a potential sex partner, Snell and Finney (1990) developed the AIDS Discussion Strategy Scale (ADSS), an objective self-report instrument designed to measure the types of interpersonal discussion strategies that women and men use if they want to discuss AIDS with an intimate partner. The AIDS Discussion Strategy Scale (ADSS) was found to have subscales involving the use of six specific types of discussion tactics: rational strategies, defined as straightforward, reasonable attempts to discuss AIDS in a forthright manner with an intimate partner; manipulative strategies, defined as deceptive and indirect efforts to persuade an intimate partner to engage in conversation about AIDS; withdrawal strategies, defined as attempts to actually avoid any extended interpersonal contact with an intimate partner until this individual agrees to a discussion about AIDS; charm strategies, defined as acting in pleasant and charming ways toward an intimate partner in order to promote a discussion about AIDS; subtlety strategies, defined as involving the use of hinting and subtle suggestions in order to elicit a conversation about AIDS; and persistence strategies, defined as persistent and continuous attempts to try to influence an intimate partner to discuss AIDS.
Although considerable medical attention has been recently focused on AIDS, relatively little is known about the amount and nature of anxiety that this disease may be fostering in segments of society. To better understand the public’s reaction to AIDS, a multidimensional self-report measure of anxiety experienced about AIDS was developed, the Multidimensional AIDS Anxiety Questionnaire (MAAQ; Snell & Finney, 1996; Finney & Snell, 1989).
The AIDS-Risk Behavior Assessment (ARBA) is a structured interview designed specifically for use with adolescents to assess their self-reported sexual behavior, drug/alcohol use, and needle use associated with HIV-infection. It was derived from four well-established measures of sexual behavior and drug/alcohol use (Dowling et al., 1994; Institute of Behavioral Science, 1991) and assesses alcohol and drug use (e.g., lifetime use, method of use, frequency), needle use (e.g., sharing, tattooing, piercing), and sexual behavior (e.g., lifetime sexual intercourse).
The following instrument can be used a brief screener for HIV risk (Gerbert et al., 1998). The screener was intended for use in primary health care settings, and is self-administered. Developers: Barbara Gerbert, Amy Bronstone, Stephen McPhee, Steven Pantila, and Michael Allerton.