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Monday October 19 2009

12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Symposia, ACT UP

HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma

Symposium

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts @ 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

12:00–1:00pm, Lunch and Registration (online registration available)

1:00–1:10pm, Opening Remarks
Laura Bogart, PhD; associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston

Session I Presenters
1:10–1:35pm
"HIV Does Not Cause AIDS" and the Dangers of AIDS Denialism
Seth Kalichman, PhD; professor of psychology, Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention, University of Connecticut

1:35–2:00pm
HIV Denialism and HIV Conspiracies in South Africa
Nicoli Nattrass, MSc, DPhil; professor, School of Economics and director, AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town

2:00–2:25pm
HIV Conspiracy Beliefs as Barriers to HIV Prevention and Treatment
Laura Bogart, PhD; associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston

2:25–2:40pm, Coffee Break

2:40–3:05pm
Discrimination and Conspiracy Beliefs are Associated with HIV Vaccines Acceptability and Access to Care: Results from LA VOICES
William E. Cunningham, MD, MPH; faculty associate, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research; professor, UCLA School of Medicine

3:05–3:30pm
HIV Denialism and Human Rights
Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA; associate professor of health and human rights, and director, Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

3:30–3:55pm, Question and Answer Session

3:55–4:10pm, Coffee Break

Session II Community Panel Discussion
4:10–4:15pm, Panel Introduction
Rhoda Johnson Tuckett, M.ED; education and outreach manager, Infectious Disease Bureau, Boston Public Health Commission

4:15–5:30pm, Panel Discussion
Iris Rivera, community AIDS activist
Ben Perkins, MA, MDiv; director, Project Saving Ourselves (SOS), The Fenway Institute
Nancy Galloway, Boston Pediatric and Family AIDS Project, The Dimock Center
Reverend Franklin Hobbs, executive director, Healing Our Land, Inc.

5:30–5:45pm, Closing Remarks
Valerie Stone, MD, MPH; director, Primary Residency Program, and associate chief, General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital

5:45–7:00pm, Reception

Organized by the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health. For more information, please call 617-495-8231 or visit: cfar.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58622&pageid=icb.page268218.

Free admission.

The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City. Organized by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Harvard Art Museum. On view at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15–December 23, 2009.