National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

USCA Program - Session Category and Track Descriptions

USCA Categories

• Seminars: A seminar is an in-depth, three-hour presentation on an AIDS-related topic relevant to one of the following populations or communities: children/adolescents, deaf individuals, drug users, heterosexual individuals, prisoners, lesbian/gay/ transgender individuals, people of color or sex workers.
  

   

• Workshops: A workshop is an in-depth, two-hour presentation on a topic relevant to one or more of the conference tracks.

   

• Roundtables: A two-hour, informal participatory session at a table of ten participants concerning a topic relevant to one or more of the conference tracks. The roundtable leader facilitates discussion among the session attendees. Due to the smaller venue, the number of roundtable presenters must be limited to one or two people. Audio visual equipment will not be provided for roundtable presentations. Please Note: Roundtable sessions will be scheduled to occur simultaneously with the workshop sessions.

   

• Poster Presentations: Poster presentations are placard-type exhibits relevant to one or more of the conference tracks displayed in a special exhibition area at the conference that often are accompanied by related handouts or materials.

USCA Tracks

• USCA TracksBuilding Healthy Organizations: This track seeks advanced-level abstracts that address the needs of Executive Directors and seasoned professionals. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: financial management, grant writing, organizational management and managing staff burnout.
  
  

• Care and Primary Care: This track explores the challenges of providing competent care to patients infected with HIV. Topics may include screening and counseling, secondary HIV prevention, diagnosing and treating complications of HIV infection, and managing ever-changing therapeutic regimens. In addition, management of co-morbidities, such as substance abuse, mental illness and hepatitis C, may be addressed as well.
  
  

• Housing: The Housing track brings together a diverse group of HIV/AIDS housing advocates, consumers, providers and developers to share what has worked in their communities. Possible topics include national, statewide and local HIV/AIDS organizing and policy advocacy; development of regional and local HIV/AIDS housing continuums; housing special populations; and developing, operating and sustaining programs.
  
  

• International Issues: The International Issues track welcomes abstracts on a wide range of international HIV/AIDS activities that cover prevention, treatment, care and the impact migration. Priority is given to abstracts that show examples of cross learning between projects in the US and other countries. Possible abstract topics include: dealing with stigma, funding, treatment protocols, orphans and vulnerable children, peer education, palliative care, various prevention approaches, HIV vaccine trials, developing international policy and partnering with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
  
  

• Prevention: The Prevention track provides an introduction and overview of innovative models, methods and strategies for planning, evaluation, developing and implementing HIV prevention programs for a wide range of target populations and risk exposures. The track also seeks interactive abstracts that address HIV prevention issues that community planning members, community-based organizations and health departments can use in order to optimize and enhance their prevention program efforts. Additionally, abstracts containing vital information on research and innovations for conducting services and programs for persons living with HIV are welcomed.
  
  

• Public Policy: This track informs community advocates, service providers and people living with HIV/AIDS of the ongoing and changing arena of HIV/AIDS policies and politics. Abstracts from this track should focus on either local, state and federal initiatives that affect programs that provide services to people affected and infected with HIV/AIDS, access to care, treatment, prevention and research funding. They also may deal with emerging community and population issues.
  
  

• Special Issues: The Special Issues track seeks abstracts that represent a wide spectrum of issues of importance to persons living with HIV disease that would not be reflected in the other tracks. Topics range from population-based issues such as transgenders, heterosexuals and faith-based initiatives to issues related to maintaining employment. In addition, the Special Issues track seeks abstracts related to nutrition for persons with HIV/AIDS. The track provides a venue for people to present issues and studies that would not otherwise be included in the conference.
  
  

• Treatment and Research: The Treatment and Research track seeks abstracts that present stateof- the-art treatment advances; treatment controversies and challenges to treatment of particular relevance to communities of color; identify models of treatment education, advocacy or intervention that would be of use in communities of color; and provide updates on the recent advances in HIV treatment and its impact upon HIV infection within communities of color.
  

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