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CHAIR: KOESTER, Kimberly (Ctr for AIDS Prev Studies, UC-San Francisco)

Patient Narratives on What Constitutes Meaningful HIV Prevention Counseling. Talking about sexual practices, preferences and problems during a routine clinical encounter is not common. In fact, many patients and healthcare providers report feeling uncomfortable managing even a cursory discussion of sex. Moreover, for people living with HIV, frank discussions about sexual expression with a healthcare provider are complicated by legal issues, concerns about feeling judged, and the underlying belief that such discussions are incongruent within the medical setting. Through ethnographic interviews with HIV specialty care providers and their patients we explored the “black box” of meaningful prevention discussions. kimberly.koester@ucsf.edu (W-13)

GOMEZ, Angela (St. George’s U)

Engaging Faith-based Communities in Grenada: A Process Approach.

This paper explores the efforts of a community organization to partner with the faith-based community as one of their strategies for the prevention of HIV/AIDS and further stigmatization of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV/AIDS) in Grenada. The process began with an exploration of the beliefs and perceptions of the faith-based community regarding HIV/AIDS, followed by a meeting in which representatives from the faith-based community came together to discuss their shared values and ways in which these could be articulated into the community-wide strategy. angelagomez16@yahoo.com

AMAYA-BURNS, Alba (U Florida)

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Address Maternal Mortality, HIV/AIDS and TB in Guatemala.

Multi-level partnerships among a Guatemalan Maya organization, Ak’ Tenamit, governmental institutions, national universities, and the University of Florida have established a base for sustainable solutions to address health issues in Izabal, Guatemala. We use an intercultural framework to link Maya, Garifuna, and other stakeholders to develop interventions to reduce the incidence and prevalence of maternal mortality, tuberculosis, and the co-infection with HIV/AIDS. We discuss how health promoters and an indigenous clown association implement sound gender and culturally competent interventions. Data was drawn from the author’s personal working experience, multilateral organizations working in Guatemala, and from Guatemala’s Ministry of Health reports. aaburns@phhp.ufl.edu

SIBLEY, Candace (U S Florida)

I Love the Camera, and the Camera Loves Me: Explorations into the Lives of Porn Actresses and Actors.

Existing literature has neglected to explore the lives of porn actors and actresses; while scholars have tracked the distribution of disease in this population, they have failed to explore issues that contextualize risk for HIV in this population. This project uses a 2004 epidemiological study on an HIV outbreak in the porn industry in Los Angeles to explore HIV risk, stigma, social and economic inequality among porn actors. Using a political-economic lens, this project will create a health education and promotion program to discuss HIV Risk in the context of these workers lives. csibley@health.usf.edu

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Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2009.