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Medical-Legal Partnerships: Building Effective Strategies for HIV Policy Initiatives

Scientific Development Workshop

AIDS 2014:International AIDS Conference

Melbourne, Australia

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

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Medical-Legal Partnerships: Building Effective Strategies for HIV Policy Initiatives

Using Case Studies to explore collaborative partnerships in Australia and the United States between physicians, nurses, solicitors and advocates that have advanced HIV public policy in order to identify replicable strategies for local issues.

Participants will: • build knowledge about the synergistic partnerships between medical and legal

professionals • understand the process for building these partnerships around a shared policy goal • identify the HIV policy issues in their environment that will benefit from similar

partnerships.

Faculty: Carole Treston Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), USA

Anna Roberts Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) Brad Sears The Williams Institute, USA

Michael Horberg HIVMA. Kaiser Permanente, USA

Darren Russell Queensland HIV Foundation, Australia

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Agenda:• Introduction/Overview• CS1: Bringing clinical expertise into the development of

federal strategies in Australia• CS2: Concerned US physicians against HIV criminalization• CS3: Engaging Physicians in the development of HIV

prosecutorial guidelines • BREAK• CS4: Mobilizing nurses in the US for syringe exchange

legislative advocacy• CS5: Creating clinical /community partnerships to influence

Australian immigration policies• Break out discussions• Closing Remarks