{"id":2056,"date":"2018-01-22T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2020-02-14T02:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:16:47","slug":"department-of-internal-medicine-keynote-speaker-discusses-community-involvement-with-hiv-prevention-at-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/department-of-internal-medicine-keynote-speaker-discusses-community-involvement-with-hiv-prevention-at-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE: Keynote speaker discusses community involvement with HIV prevention at annual conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2056\" class=\"elementor elementor-2056\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-147316b0 elementor-section-boxed 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with HIV prevention at annual conference<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e05e657 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"7e05e657\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-46f67bb elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/author\/hi-vizibility-marketing\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-user-circle\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item 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class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b1fdf9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b1fdf9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"UHMedNowTitle\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>January 22, 2018 &#8212;<\/strong> <em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Pictured: Elizabeth Crutsinger-Perry, deputy director of the infectious disease prevention program of Washington State Department of Health, speaks about the department&#8217;s HIV prevention efforts.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div><p><strong>By Tina Shelton, Deborah Manog and Vina Cristobal, UH Med Now<\/strong><\/p><p>Get politically involved. That was a key message brought to Hawai\u2019i this week by an expert on the movement to eradicate HIV and AIDS. HIV-AIDS related organizations, community members and researchers in Hawai\u02bbi convened at the University of Hawai\u2019i medical school on Janury 16 and 17 in their annual conference on the effort to stamp out AIDS in the islands.<\/p><p>The conference is hosted by the\u00a0Hawai\u02bbi Center for AIDS, a UH affiliate dedicated to HIV prevention efforts.<\/p><p>The expert from Washington State said when their governor signed on to the \u201cEnd HIV\u201d movement there, it made a huge difference.<\/p><p>\u201cI think in Washington we were very fortunate because our governor signed onto our End HIV proclamation in December of 2014, so his political power behind that decision has really opened a lot of doors for us to work with other agencies, other state agencies, we got some additional funding,\u201d said Elizabeth Crutsinger-Perry, with the Washington State Department of Health. \u201cSo, I think using your political power and getting legislators or leaders of agencies to join your effort is how this is going to be successful because just the Department of Health or just community providers is not going to be enough, it has to be a community wide effort.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"jabsomVideo\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DpetvjFWm8w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div><p>Washington State also developed a compelling public message about AIDS prevention called \u201cThe Four Gets\u201d.<\/p><p>\u201cSo the \u2018four gets\u2019 are get insured, get tested, if you are negative get \u2018prep\u2019 and if you are positive get treatment,\u201d said Crutsinger-Perry. \u201cPrep\u201d refers to the fact that there is a way now for people who do not have HIV but who are at substantial risk of getting it to prevent infection by taking a pill every day. The pill, with the brand name <em>Truvada\u00ae<\/em> contains two medicines (tenofovir and emtricitabine) that are used in combination with other medicines to treat HIV.<\/p><p>In addition to eight visiting speakers, participants in the Hawai\u2019i HIV\/AIDS Conference included the Hawai\u2019i Center for AIDS, the Chow Project, the State of Hawai\u2019i Department of Health, the Life Foundation, M\u0101lama Pono, the Maui AIDS Foundation and the Hawai\u2019i Island HIV\/AIDS Foundation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ab1cf02 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ab1cf02\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6ed9b7a0\" data-id=\"6ed9b7a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-156d000f elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"156d000f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/news-all\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">&lt;&lt;   &nbsp;Return To News<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 22, 2018 &#8212; The annual Hawai\u2019i HIV\/AIDS Conference included a keynote speaker from the University of Washington, who emphasized community involvement in HIV prevention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21740,"featured_media":2058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-department-of-internal-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/HIV2018Conference.jpg?fit=632%2C399&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/12879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}