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Geography of AIDS/HIV

The AAG and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) are jointly sponsoring a symposium on Geography, HIV/AIDS, and Drug Abuse, to be held on March 24, 2009, in conjunction with the AAG annual meeting in Las Vegas. The symposium will focus on the global geography of risk – specifically, drug use/abuse and the risk for HIV/AIDS in a globalizing world. Geographers, sociologists, medical researchers, epidemiologists, anthropologists, public health scientists, and others with active research in the geographical dimensions of drug use/abuse and HIV/AIDS will participate in the program.

Geography, HIV/AIDS, and Drug Abuse I

Tuesday, March 24, 1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Room:  TBA (Paper Session)

Description: This session focuses on place-specific factors that relate to HIV/AIDS and to risky behavior, such as drug use, that contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Organizer(s): AAG/NIDA; Douglas Richardson, AAG; Yonette Thomas, NIDA; Mei-Po Kwan, Ohio State University; Sandro Galea, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Wilson Compton, NIDA
1:00     Barbara Tempalski; Spencer Lieb; Charles M. Cleland, Hannah Cooper; Samuel R. Friedman, Ph.D., Geographic patterns of change in IDU-realted HIV prevalence rates across 96 metropolitan statistical areas (1992-2002).
1:20     Melanie Rusch; Kimberly C. Brouwer; Alicia Vera; Manuel Gallardo; Remedios Lozada; Steffanie A. Strathdee, Using descriptive mapping to identify sexual risk locations: comparison of syphilis distribution by location of residence, drug purchase and drug use.
1:40     Kimberly C. Brouwer; Melanie Rusch; Alicia Vera; Manuel Gallardo; Remedios Lozada; Steffanie A. Strathdee, Mapping a better understanding of HIV transmission among injection drug users in Tijuana, Mexico.
Discussant(s): Rashad Shabazz, University of Vermont, “Whirlpool of risk”: Transference, carceral circularity and the rise of the Black AIDS epidemic; Sandro Galea, University of Michigan

Geography, HIV/AIDS, and Drug Abuse II

Tuesday, March 24, 3:10 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
Room:  TBA (Paper Session)

Description: This session focuses on the distribution and spatial trends of HIV/AIDS (and related diseases) among IDUs in various areas around the globe.

Organizer(s): AAG/NIDA; Douglas Richardson, AAG; Yonette Thomas, NIDA; Mei-Po Kwan, Ohio State University; Sandro Galea, University of Michigan
Chair(s): Yonette Thomas, NIDA
3:10     Ty A. Ridenour, University of Pittsburgh; K. Ola Ahlqvist, Ohio State University, Do 10 to 12 year olds’ predictors of adolescent substance abuse cluster into neighborhoods?
3:30     R. B. Rothenberg; S. Q. Muth; T. Hoang, Personal geographic range and HIV/STD transmission.
3:50     Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, University at Buffalo-SUNY; Annitra Jongsthapongpanth, Geographic variation in mortality from AIDS in Chiang Rai, Thailand.  *** Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen is giving another paper at 1:44 on Tuesday
Discussant(s): Mei-Po Kwan, Ohio State University

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