This two-day training will help to increase providers’ confidence, knowledge and practice skill in facilitating groups, such as the Centers for Disease Control’s evidence-based behavioral intervention VOICES/VOCES. As a result of this training, participants will be able to: increase their understanding of group process and how it influences behavior change; identify qualities of an effective group facilitator; increase skills in facilitating STD/HIV prevention intervention groups; identify strategies for handling group problems; and learn the importance of training, supporting and evaluating group facilitators.
Prerequisite: None.
Audience: Group facilitators, counselors, health educators, peer educators, health care professionals and other public health prevention providers who conduct group level STD/HIV prevention interventions.
Fall 2011 Dates: September 21 & 22, 2011 (9am-5pm daily) Hawthorne
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Group Facilitation Skills for STD/HIV Prevention Interventions, Day 2
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Group Facilitation Skills for STD/HIV Prevention Interventions
Thursday, July 7th, 2011This two-day training will help to increase providers’ confidence, knowledge and practice skill in facilitating groups, such as the Centers for Disease Control’s evidence-based behavioral intervention VOICES/VOCES. As a result of this training, participants will be able to: increase their understanding of group process and how it influences behavior change; identify qualities of an effective group facilitator; increase skills in facilitating STD/HIV prevention intervention groups; identify strategies for handling group problems; and learn the importance of training, supporting and evaluating group facilitators.
Prerequisite: None.
Audience: Group facilitators, counselors, health educators, peer educators, health care professionals and other public health prevention providers who conduct group level STD/HIV prevention interventions.
Fall 2011 Dates: September 21 & 22, 2011 (9am-5pm daily) Hawthorne
A Cure for HIV?
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010The HIV/AIDS community is buzzing this week with news that an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Known as the “Berlin Patient,” he received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy (and highly expensive) treatment course for leukemia. His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved” While this treatment is experimental, the case paves the way for future possible cures for HIV infection through genetically-engineered stem cells.
For more information on this breakthrough report, visit AIDSMeds.com. As well-known HIV/AIDS nutrition expert Nelson Vergel points out in a Q&A forum on TheBody.com this week, we’re a long ways off from the real-world applications of these findings.
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