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The Distance Learning Project Of Teachers College Columbia University
is proud to offer:
AIDS EDUCATION- Online http://dlp.tc.columbia.edu/visitor/news_AIDS.htm
A New Course will be Starting in May 2002
The AIDS pandemic represents more than a threat to individual health and
requires more from educators than ever before. In the past AIDS education
meant telling people who are potentially at risk for infection with the
virus how to avoid infection. As a generation of young adults who have
never known life without the AIDS epidemic, our notions about what they --
and for that matter, every member of our society -- will need to know have
changed.
The course, therefore, 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. The
course will pose a series of questions and contemporary issues for
participants to digest and debate including:
- the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
- the basic biological structure of the virus, including the mechanisms
through which exposure, infection, and disease progression
function for HIV/AIDS.
- the manner in which race, gender, community (including sexual and
social identity), and socioeconomics influence the dynamics of the pandemic
- current therapies including Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatments
[HAART] and Protease Inhibitors [PTs]
- the theoretical basis for HIV prevention interventions and the role
that education plays in such efforts
- the policy issues that render an understanding of HIV/AIDS an
imperative to which a democratic republic is compelled to respond.
The Professors have between them more than two decades of experience in AIDS
education, research, and policy. Robert Fullilove, Ed.D. is the chair of the
CDC's Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and co-directs 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. Michael Poulson, MPH, is a behavioral epidemiologist
and educator focusing on the intersection of HIV and substance use in
communities of color. 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.
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