AIDS Education-Online

AIDS Education-Online

Columbia University. http://dlp.tc.columbia.edu Telephone: 212-678-3492 or 888.633-6933.
by the Distance Learning Project of Teachers College

This continuing education course is less about how to construct an AIDS education curriculum and more an orientation to the key issues that every educator should understand in order to help others make sense of the epidemic. It will pose a series of questions and a series of contemporary issues for participants to digest and debate. The objectives of the course are: "Students will be able to describe in writing the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, with specific attention to the sociogeographic characteristics of the disease, which will include the manner in which race, gender, community (including sexual and social identity), and socioeconomics influence the dynamics of the pandemic. Students will understand and describe the basic biological structure of the virus, including the mechanisms through which exposure, infection, and disease progression function for HIV/AIDS. Students will describe the manner in which current therapies function, including Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatments (HAART) and Protease Inhibitors (PTs). Students will understand and describe the theoretical basis for HIV prevention interventions and the role that education plays in such efforts. Students will understand and describe the policy issues that render an understanding of HIV/AIDS and imperative to which a democratic republic is compelled to respond."

The professors include Robert Fullilove, Ed.D, chair of the CDC's Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and co-director of the Community Research Group at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University. He also serves on the editorial board of the journal, Sexually Transmitted Disease, as well as on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy; and Michael Poulson, MPH, ABD, a behavioral epidemiologist and educator focusing on the intersection of HIV and substance use in communities of color. He is presently working with the Community Research Group of the Columbia School of Public Health, he is a member of the community advisory board of the Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies of the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as founder of ACCESS Harlem, a consortia to promote and facilitate socially responsible, culturally sensitive and ethnically appropriate interventions, research, and education.

Keywords: Continuing Education
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