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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago's Service Providers Council (SPC) offers scheduled prevention conferences multiple times a year. HIV prevention providers, consumers, and advocates are encouraged to participate in AFC's HIV prevention conferences. Each prevention conference focuses on different target populations, offering strategies relating to various topics including HIV prevention policy, research, and risk-reduction. |
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8/20/2009 Intersection of Poverty, Homelessness, Economic Dependence and HIV |
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
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 Thursday, August 20, 2009 - The Intersection of Poverty, Homelessness, Economic Dependence and HIV
The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) and the Service Providers Council (SPC) along with the Women’s Collaborative of Greater Chicago and the Illinois Women of African American Descent and many organizations that primary mission is working with African American women are sponsored a women’s conference on the intersection of poverty, homelessness, economic dependence and HIV.
The one-day event focused on how poverty, homelessness and the lack of economic dependence play a critical role in the rates of HIV infections in African American women. The conference featured Lynn Todman, PhD, Director of the Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School of Professional Psychology and Chakena Conway, Youth Advocate & Activist, Center for Women & HIV Advocacy, HIV Law Project, NY.
View Dr. Todman's presentation (PDF) here.
View pictures from the event here. |
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