CODE Office Website

Hello Everyone:

The CODE Office has a new website:

*http://cfar-code.unc.edu*

Enjoy!

UPDATES

Hello Everyone:

Wonderful CAB Meeting last week... I will post the meeting materials shortly, thank you all again for attending.

I have updated the BLOG with the current issues of the CFAR newsletter, enjoy!

CFAR Newsletter

Hello Everyone:

The next installment of the CFAR newsletter has been posted (Volume 2, Issue 2).

Enjoy!

March: Friday Morning Conference Schedule

Hello CAB Members:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Weekend.

The UNC CFAR will continue its weekly Friday Conference Series. The conferences are held at the Lineberger Cancer Research Center on Campus in the ground floor conference room, from 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. A light breakfast and refreshments are provided.

Scheduled Conferences:
March 7th: Clyde Crumpacker, Harvard: "Human CMV Infection in the Transplant Recipient - Resistance, Prevention, and Treatment"
March 14: Shannon Galvin, UNC: "Implementing HIV Care in Africa"
March 21: HOLIDAY
March 28: David Webber, UNC: "Day Care Infections"

Hope to see you there!

February Friday Conference Schedule

Hello CAB Members:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Weekend.

The UNC CFAR will continue its weekly Friday Conference Series. The conferences are held at the Lineberger Cancer Research Center on Campus in the ground floor conference room, from 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. A light breakfast and refreshments are provided.

Scheduled Conferences:

February 8: David Celentano from Johns Hopkins

February 15: David Wohl / Joe Eron from UNC: CROI Update

February 22: Peter Gilligan from UNC: Microbiology and Lab Diagnosis of Ocular Infections

February 29: Ada Adimora from UNC

Hope to see you there!

CFAR Newsletter

Hello Everyone:

The next installment of the CFAR newsletter has been posted (Volume 2, Issue 1).

Enjoy!

CFAR CAB MEETING

Hello CAB Members:

The next CFAR CAB meeting has been schedule for Friday January 18, 2008 from 12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

The meeting will be held at UNC Chapel Hill in the Health Sciences Library, room 527.

This meeting will be catered by Nantucket Cafe and Grill. I will be sending out directions, map, and menu to everyone via e-mail shortly.

Please let me know if you will be able to attend. I hope to see you all there!

January Friday Conference Schedule

Hello CAB Members:

I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Break.

The UNC CFAR will continue it's weekly Friday Conference Series. The conferences are held at the Lineberger Cancer Research Center on Campus in the ground floor conference room.

Scheduled Conferences:

January 4:
Lynne Mofenson, NICHD
"Janet Fischer Memorial Lecture: Mother to Child Transmission of HIV"

January 11:
Giselle Corbie-Smith, UNC
"GRACE Project"

January 18:
Denise Jamieson and Maurizio Macaluso
Reproductive Health Branch, CDC
"Ongoing Research of the Reproductive Health Branch"

January 25:
John Rex, AstraZeneca

Hope to see you there!

The Chatham Social Health Council is seeking an Executive Director.

Executive Director. Local community-based non-profit agency providing education, advocacy, & support to prevent HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in Chatham County, North Carolina seeks Executive Director with experience in fund raising, outreach, and HIV testing. Send resume and cover letter to: Search Committee Chatham Social Health Council, PO Box 297, Pittsboro, NC 27312 or via email ChathamCouncil@aol.com.

No phone calls please.

WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT

CFAR Newsletter

Hello CAB Members:

I have uploaded the next installment of the CFAR newsletter to the BLOG (Volume 1, Issue 6).

Enjoy! Let me know if you have any questions.

Vanessa

Friday Morning Conference, October 19

Hi Everyone:

Joyce Barlow from Beth Israel Medical Center, will be speaking at the CFAR Friday Morning Conference on October 19, 2007.

The meeting will be held in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Auditorium at 8:30 a.m. Light breakfast and refreshments will be provided.

The topic of the lecture is "Management of Clostrida Diff Colitis".

I hope to see you there!

Please let me know if you have any questions,Vanessa

Free, Confidential, Rapid HIV Testing Event

Project STYLE, Campus Health Services, GBLTSA, LifeAIDS, Housing and Residential Education, and the LGBTQ Center are proud to offer a free, confidential, rapid HIV testing event on Wednesday October 10th from 10-4PM at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. The test does not involve needles or the collection of blood, and results are available the same day.

This event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and the broader community.

Take the steps to learn your HIV status. When you know, you take control.

Free, confidential, rapid HIV Testing event
No blood, no needles. Same day results.
Wednesday October 10th 2007
10AM-4PM
UNC-Chapel Hill F.P. Graham Student Union, Room 3411
Chapel Hill, NC

For more information contact Justin at
jcsmith@med.unc.edu
(919) 843-4722

This event is sponsored by Project STYLE, Campus Health Services, GLBTSA, LifeAIDS, Housing and Residential Education, and the LGBTQ Center

Friday Morning Conference, October 5

Hi Everyone:

Annelies van Rie, Epidemiologist, will be speaking at the CFAR Friday Morning Conference on October 5, 2007.

The meeting will be held in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Auditorium at 8:30 a.m. Light breakfast and refreshments will be provided.

The topic of the lecture is "IDSA, Infectious Disease Society of America".

I hope to see you there!

Please let me know if you have any questions,
Vanessa

Friday Morning Conference, September 28

Hi Everyone:

Audrey Pettifor, Epidemiologist, will be speaking at the CFAR Friday Morning Conference on September 28, 2007. The meeting will be held in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Auditorium at 8:30 a.m. Light breakfast and refreshments will be provided.

The topic of the lecture is " Gender, power and HIV risk among young South African Women".

I hope to see you there!

Please let me know if you have any questions,
Vanessa

"Sometimes I Cry" Production

CUAB and the Kappa Omicron Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. present "Sometimes I Cry": the loves, lives, and losses of women affected by HIV/AIDS as performed and written by Sheryl Lee Ralph.

The play will be held on Monday, October 15th at 7pm in UNC's Memorial Hall. This amazing performance was made possible by generous contributions from the UNC Center for AIDS Research, Carolina Union Activities Board, the Kappa Omicron Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Counseling and Wellness Services, Carolina Women's Center, UNC-CH NAACP, Sonja Hanes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, and Late Night Carolina.

Tickets will be free to students and $5 for the general public. Student tickets will be available with a onecard starting Tuesday, October 2nd. Tickets for the general public will go on sale on Monday, October 8th and can be purchased either over the phone by calling the Memorial Hall Box Office (919) 843-3333, or in person.

For more information on the performance please visit: www.sometimesicry.org

If you have additional questions, please email: kappaomicrondst@gmail.com or mmmonroe@email.unc.edu

9-18-07 CAB MEETING UPDATE

Hello CAB Members:

Just an update, our CAB Meeting has grown this time around and we had to switch conference rooms to accomodate our numbers.

The NEW meeting location is in the Breeland Conference Room, 1080 Old Dental Building in the School of Dentistry here at UNC - Chapel Hill.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

Vanessa

UNC HIV Conference - Vanessa White

Hello CAB Members:

I wanted to inform you of an intersting conference being held here at UNC. Audrey Pettifor, UNC Epidemiologist will be speaking on Friday, Septemeber 28th on Gender, power and HIV risk among young South African Women.

The meeting will be held at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) in the ground floor auditorium at 8:30 a.m. Light breakfast and refreshments will be provided.

Hope to see you there.

Please e-mail me if you have a question!

HIV/AIDS in the prison system- Judith Albert

As Dr. White informed us at our most recent meeting, prisons are extremely high-risk environments for HIV transmission. To our surprise, there were no condom distribution in place in the system because that would mean acknowledging that sexual encounter does occur and would offer an opportunity for illicit drug use by hiding in them the illicit material.
I was surprised by the lack of realism expressed by prison authorities in this respect. First of all, my surprise was that out of two evils to prevent, the prison officials chose the least deadly one: drug use. It is known that there are plenty of other ways to prevent illicit drug use other than not distributing possible hiding places for them (e.g. condoms), but there are no other avenues to prevent the sexual spread of HIV.

I was browsing public-health related information on the web on my home country, Romania, with the hopes to do a summer project there when I came across the World Health Organization's project proposal to prevent HIV spread in the prisons of Europe. This is the web-link to the project:

http://www.euro.who.int/Governance/resolutions/2002/20021231_4

I highly recommend looking at this report, it provides a lot of information on HIV/AIDS related projects in the EU Council.

Also, I have found here the joint proposal of the WHO and UNAIDS for HIV/AIDS Prevention,
Care, Treatment and Support in Prison Settings. To my understanding, this proposal is not only for EU countries but for all nations.
Among the many proposals are the following two recommendations:

‘Recognize that consensual sexual activity occurs in prisons, and ensure that consensual

sexual activity is not penalised as this will discourage prisoners accessing

condoms.’

‘Ensure the measures available outside of prisons to prevent transmission of HIV

through the exchange of bodily fluids are also available in prisons. This should

include providing access to the full range of prevention commodities to prevent HIV

transmission through unsafe sex, needle sharing, unsafe tattooing, and joint use of

razors in those countries where these measures are available in the outside community,

e.g., condoms, sterile needles and syringes, razor blades and sterile tattooing

equipment. HIV prevention measures should be accessible in a confidential and

non-discriminatory fashion.’

Hence, there is a general understanding at the international level of HIV spread through unsafe sexual encounters in the prisons. I wonder why our prison system fails to acknowledge that. I also wonder whether this is only the case in our state or other states as well?

Annual UNC HIV Symposium

Hello Everyone:

I would ilke to inform you about the annual UNC HIV Symposium to be held at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill on Monday May 7th from 9 AM to 3:30 PM.

Speakers and talks:

• Roy Gulick from Cornell on New Drugs
• Richard Chaisson from Hopkins on Immune Reconstitution Syndrome
• Peter Leone from UNC on HIV Primary Infection
• Patrician Rivera of UNC on smoking cessation
• Brad Gaynes of UNC on Depression and our usual case conference.

Addiontal talks will be given on the following topics:

• HIV disclosure
• Post traumatic stress disorder
• The combined session on smoking cessation and the role of case management in prisoner release.

The cost is $30 (which includes free parking, breakfast and lunch).

The course will offer free credits for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, counselors, case managers and psychologists.

We hope to see you there!! Please forward this information to anyone you might think would be interested.

For more informatio, or for online registration, please visit...

http://www.gahec.org/cme/