Can Peer Education Prevent Risky Sex? At the World AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, Dr. Donald Morisky, UCLA professor of public health, will share the results of how peer counseling influenced heterosexual men's sexual behavior in the Philippines. Morisky will address the conference on Wednesday, July 12.

Improving HIV Patients' Self-Care Gail Wyatt, a clinical psychologist at the UCLA AIDS Institute, discovered that HIV-infected people who receive one-on-one education show marked improvements in medication adherence, safer sex and psychological well-being. Wyatt will discuss her findings, which point to new clinical approaches for treating HIV-positive individuals, on Wednesday, July 12.

Ethnicity Influences STD Risk UCLA epidemiologist Nina Harawa found that having a non-monogamous partner more than doubled a woman's risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) - a predictor that spanned the ethnic spectrum. Yet the STD history of a woman who lived with her boyfriend or spouse varied dramatically by race, emphasizing the need to target men in certain cultures. Harawa will speak on Wednesday, July 12.

It Takes a Village Dr. Roger Detels, UCLA professor of public health and epidemiology, will describe the results of a unique community intervention program to reduce drug use in China. Detels addresses the conference on Monday, July 10.

COMPLETE LIST OF UCLA PRESENTATIONS

MONDAY, JULY 10

11:30 a.m. Dr. Roger Detels A community intervention program to reduce drug use in China Oral poster presentation: Tent C

Dr. David Hardy A pilot study of drugs abacavir, amprenavir, efavirenz and adefovir in HIV patients exposed to protease inhibitors and nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors Poster presentation: Track B

Dr. Nina Harawa HIV prevalence in foreign- and U.S.-born patients at Los Angeles County public STD clinics Poster presentation: Tent C

Dr. Ellen Thometz Recent STD trends at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center in Hispanic men who have sex with men Poster presentation: Track C

TUESDAY, JULY 11

Dr. Octavio Vallejo and Thomas Donohoe HIV/AIDS training for health care providers in Mexico Poster presentation: Track D

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

Noon Dr. Nina Harawa Relationship and partner traits among young women with sexually transmitted diseases Oral poster presentation: Tent C

4:30 p.m. Dr. Donald Morisky The effects of peer counseling on STD risk behaviors in heterosexual men in the Philippines Oral poster presentation: Hall ICC-III

Dr. Douglas Longshore Drug users' gender differences and psychosocial antecedents of sexual risk Poster presentation: Track D

Dr. Gail Wyatt A randomized clinical trial of a medical adherence and risk-reduction program with HIV-positive men and women Poster presentation: Track D

Dr. Adeline Nyamathi Compliance with tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis among the homeless Poster presentation: Track D

THURSDAY, JULY 13

Dr. Adeline Nyamathi Hepatitis C prevalence among homeless women and their intimate partners Poster presentation: Track D

Dr. Hongjie Liu Acceptability of voluntary HIV testing and result disclosure in Chinese rural residents Poster presentation: Track C Please check the conference program for additional times and locations.