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See also: The NPIN listing of conferences not directly related to HIV for medical professionals

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Fellowships & Grants opportunities

Medical News 

Peer-reviewed journal summaries and the latest in Research and Reports. See also the Care Section.

Patient Education and Risk Reduction Counseling

Treatment Resources

Latest treatment guidelines and more; Michigan Laws

Training

available for medical professionals 


Satellite Broadcast and Pod & Webcast Conferences & Trainings for credit

See also the Medical Briefs & Conference page listings


 

Michigan Conferences and Events

 


International Conferences

13th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research full text

Make a difference – sign up as a scientific writing e-mentor

Are you interested in sharing your research writing and publishing experience with young and/or less-experienced researchers in low- and middle-income countries?

If so, join the International AIDS Society’s (IAS) mentors network and be part of a global initiative to improve scientific literacy through e-mentoring.

The IAS’s Abstract Mentor Programme for the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) is now recruiting experienced HIV/AIDS and public health researchers to support young and/or less experienced abstract submitters as they prepare their abstracts for submission. As a mentor, you review draft abstracts and provide feedback on scientific writing and writing style, research methods and analysis, and which abstract categories to target.

E-mentoring is proven to increase the success rate of researchers from low- and middle-income countries. It is completely independent of the conference’s abstract review and selection process.

AIDS 2010 will be held 18 to 23 July 2010 in Vienna, Austria. Abstract submissions are open from 1 November 2009 to 10 February 2010.

The IAS is recruiting new mentors through 31 October 2009. If you are interested in joining the programme, contact the IAS at mentor@aids2010.org.

For more information visit:

www.aids2010.org/abstract_mentor.aspx

 


National Conferences and Meetings

See also Satellite Conferences on the Conferences and Events page.

 


Fellowships and Grants

Check the list of recently added sources to the NPIN funding database. And the career advancement opportunities.


Patient Education and Risk Reduction Counseling

Let's Start Talking
http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-05-00#S22X
A tool for patient education and risk reduction counseling. Offers
space on back for clinic information label.
Source: Mountain-Plains AETC

Risk Reduction Prescription Pad
http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-05-00#S22X
A patient education tool used in risk reduction counseling, formatted
like a prescription pad for easy use.
Source: Mountain-Plains AETC

Positive STEPS Posters for Exam Rooms
http://www.mpaetc.org/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=105
Poster designed to go into clinic exam rooms addressing risk reduction
and prevention. Mountain-Plains AETC Web site
( http://www.mpaetc.org/scripts/prodList.asp   ) offers 3 versions for
ordering.
Source: Mountain-Plains AETC

Positive STEPS Posters for Waiting Rooms
http://www.mpaetc.org/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=106
Poster designed to go in clinic waiting areas addressing risk reduction
and prevention. Mountain-Plains AETC Web site
( http://www.mpaetc.org/scripts/prodList.asp  ) offers 3 versions for ordering.
Source: Mountain-Plains AETC

HIV Prevention: Working with PWHAs in a Clinical Setting - A
Multidisciplinary Team Approach

http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-04-00#S11X
Date: 12/2004
Source: New York/New Jersey AETC
This is an interdisciplinary curriculum for clinicians and HSSPs.
Includes demographic information, risk reduction examples, and guidelines.


 


Treatment Resources - Guidelines

AIDSinfo's Publication Ordering Policy Goes "Green"

Starting in January, AIDSinfo will no longer provide hard copies of the HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines via ordering from the Web site. In the future, hard copies will only be available by contacting AIDSinfo directly via telephone (1-800-448-0440) or e-mail (Contactus@aidsinfo.nih.gov).

This step is being taken as part of an effort to reduce AIDSinfo's carbon footprint; the printing and shipping of thousands of copies of guidelines per year produce a significant amount of greenhouse gases. Additionally, the guidelines are updated frequently and constant reproduction of hard copies is not conducive to maintaining "living documents" such as the treatment guidelines.

Guidelines will continue to be available for download from the Web site or by e-mail from the Pubs Ordering section at no cost to users. (Or the environment!)

 

The Latest Treatment Guidelines
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/


More Treatment Resources


Michigan HIV Laws How They Affect Physicians and Other Health Care Providers Revised September 2002
This includes: reporting requirements, confidentiality issues, mandatory counseling and informed consent for testing, prenatal testing requirement, duty to warn and other notification, anti-discrimination laws and more.

Contact MDCH-HAPIS for a copy. (517)241-5900.

New resource booklet created by Planned Parenthood
"Providing Transgender Inclusive Healthcare"

Special Concerns About HIV Infection in the Older Adult
http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-01-00#S7X
Date: 01/2005
Source: New York/New Jersey AETC
Focuses on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS in older
individuals (those over age 50) and the specific issues concerning this population. 30 slides with speaker notes.
 

JournalView: A New Way to Keep Up With the Latest in HIV Medicine
The Body Pro, The Body's sister site for HIV healthcare professionals, has launched JournalView, a new, monthly analysis of HIV research authored by an HIV physician. Every month, JournalView will scour top medical journals and other publications, selecting key findings and providing expert commentary on their importance to the world of HIV medicine.
http://www.thebodypro.com/journalview

U of M HIV/AIDS Treatment Program
http://www.med.umich.edu/hivaids/

The amfAR Global Link
http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/td/index.html
This new site succeeds amfAR’s HIV/AIDS Treatment Directory. Its searchable databases summarize current research on treating HIV and HIV-associated conditions and include detailed descriptions of approved and experimental drugs. This unique treatment resource also features an extensive listing of active clinical trials in North America and worldwide.

National HIV/AIDS Clinician's Consultation Center
http://www.ucsf.edu/hivcntr/

  • Provider warmline
    National HIV Telephone Consultation Service 1-800-933-3413
    Assistance with HIV patient treatment
  • PEPline
    National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline 1-888-HIV-4911 (1-888-448-4911)

New National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service

HRSA/HAB has developed a new 24-hour clinical consultation service, the National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (PerinatalHotline). This service provides 24-hour advice from HIV experts on indications and interpretations of HIV testing in pregnancy as well as consultation on treating HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants.
The Perinatal Hotline not only answers callers' immediate questions and helps solve urgent perinatal HIV issues, but also assists clinicians in linking HIV-infected pregnant women and HIV-exposed infants to the mostappropriate care. Callers are referred to a national network of education, training and consultation services available from regional AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs). The Perinatal Hotline is an expansion of the HRSA National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC) at San Francisco General Hospital, which currently operates the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline) and the National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
Hotline (PEPline).

The NCCC is part of the AETC Program funded by HRSA/HAB in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and HAB's Division of Community Based Programs. The Perinatal Hotline (888-448-8765) and the PEPline (888-448-4911) are both available 24 hours, seven days per week.
The Warmline (800-933-3413) is available 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday.


THE AIDS KNOWLEDGE BASE
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=KB
A comprehensive textbook for medical professionals and researchers. Chapters include: Transmission, Testing, Natural History, Clinical Spectrum and General Management of HIV Disease, Clinical Management. One of the most important and comprehensive works on AIDS and HIV available today.


INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS IN AIDS CARE (IAPAC)
http://www.iapac.org
The IAPAC web site is an educational resource to introduce physicians, other healthcare professionals, and people with HIV disease to some of the clinical and scientific information developed by IAPAC. Review news summaries, current updates, special clinical reports, IAPAC consumer publications, schedule of seminars and meetings, and information about IAPAC services and membership.

JAMA AIDS-RELATED WEBPAGE
http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv/hivhome.htm
JAMA's HIV/AIDS Information Center is an easy-to-use, interactive collection of useful and high-quality resources for physicians, other health professionals and the public. Included are links to clinical updates, news, and information on a broad range of social and policy questions relating to HIV/AIDS.

The New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.nejm.org/content/index.asp

National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project
http://www.natap.org/

Related Resources

"The Practitioner's Handbook for the
Management of Sexually Transmitted Disease"

The Seattle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center at the University of
Washington announces that "The Practitioner's Handbook for the
Management of Sexually Transmitted Disease, 3rd Edition" by Connie L. Celum, MD, MPH, Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, Negusse Ocbamichael, PA-C, Anne Meegan and Walter Stamm, MD is now available online (complete with
downloadable color slides) at http://www.STDhandbook.org.
 


Training

Looking for training for you and/or your staff? See the training section. Providers include MATEC Michigan and Wayne State University's AIDS Research and Education Program, and now the Kent Co. Health Department provides training in west Michigan and southeast Michigan including: 

  • Prevention with Positives: an overview of prevention strategies for HIV positive patients and offer strategies for incorporating risk assessment, risk reduction and harm reduction services into services for persons with HIV
  • New Responses to Old Infections: competently discuss patients’ sexual health and provide risk assessment, risk reduction, HIV counseling, testing and referral services to persons at risk of HIV infection
  • Healthcare student trainings
 

Additional Trainings

HIV/AIDS Web-Based CME Program
Opportunity to Participate in the Development of an Innovative
 Interactive Online CME Program on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Diagnosis, and
 Treatment of Adults Aged 50 and Over. See Details.

CDC web-based training on Hep C

THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF PREVENTION TRAINING CENTERS (NNPTC)
http://www.stdhivpreventiontraining.org/

The National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training
Centers (PTCs) is a CDC-funded group of regional centers created in
partnership with health departments and universities. The PTCs are dedicated
to increasing the knowledge and skills of health professionals in the areas
of sexual and reproductive health. The National Network provides health
professionals with a spectrum of state-of-the-art educational opportunities,
including experiential learning with an emphasis on prevention.

HIV/AIDS Web-Based CME Program
Opportunity to Participate in the Development of an Innovative
 Interactive Online CME Program on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Diagnosis, and
 Treatment of Adults Aged 50 and Over.

 You may register for the program at any time at: http://www.hiv50.com   

 


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