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Panel discussion-ACA and HIV
December 13, 2013
Hi All-
APLA and UCLA PAETC will be doing some ACA & HIV trainings in the coming year in different California cities.
One goal is to provide more than just the 60-90 minute updates most HIV providers have been receiving.
We will be piloting the training in LA at APLA next Monday, December 16 (see attached agenda.)
Is anyone with mental health expertise from the task force interested in being on the 2:00 pm panel?
We need someone who can talk BRIEFLY about MENTAL HEALTH and the ACA for people with HIV.
Someone who can speak to benefits and challenges of mental health services in MediCal Managed Care and Covered California plans would be great.
For example what co-pays might someone have to face who is going from Ryan White to a Covered California plan? What are the implications?
If any of you have feedback on this topic, please feel free to email the 3 me as well, even if you can’t participate in the pilot training.
Feel free to call me with any questions.
If someone is interested, please email me and include Luke and Brian in your response (copied here—I think you may know Brian from the HepC Task Force?) so we know who is confirmed for the panel.
If you are a yes, and want to participate in the full day, please let them know that as well.
Thank you!
Tom Donohoe
Tom Donohoe
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Director, UCLA/Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800
Los Angeles, CA 90024-4142
Voice (310) 794-8276
Fax (310) 794-6097
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UCLA AIDS Institute / CFAR Grand Rounds: This monthly lecture series, which is offered by the UCLA CFAR / AIDS Institute, consists of hour-long lunchtime lectures, delivered by invited guests or distinguished members of the Institute faculty, on a broad range of subjects. The aims of the program are to highlight important developments in AIDS-related research, encourage collaborations between UCLA investigators and invited speakers, interest young investigators in AIDS research, and provide information about new findings and new funding opportunities.
Grant N. Colfax, M.D.
Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy
“National HIV/AIDS Strategy and the HIV Care Continuum Initiative”
Friday, December 13, 2013
12:00pm to 1:00pm
CHS 23-105
Seminar supported by the Michael Gottlieb fund.
Hosted by the International Health Services and Policy Program Section
- A light lunch will be served promptly at noon.
- Admission is free but space is limited.
- To reserve a seat please click here
FYI: The referenced event will be held at:
UCLA Campus at the Center for Health Sciences building (CHS building, in room 23-105). See attached map of location. There is not a street address.
For directions from the 10 FWY:
- West on 10 FWY
- North on 405 FWY
- Exit on Wilshire Blvd (heading east)
- Turn left on Glendon Ave heading towards UCLA. Find street parking on either Glendon Ave, Tiverton Drive, or Le Conte Avenue. You can also pay for parking at PCHS, but there are no parking validations.
For directions from Sunset Blvd:
- West on Sunset Blvd
- Left on Hilgard Ave
- Right onto Le Conte Ave. Find street parking.
Dec. 5 – Participate in Text, Talk, Act To Improve Mental Health
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The pre-production draft of “When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach About Sexual Orientation” (to be published in Journal of Homosexuality this Spring 2014) is now available Learning Trans. Among other things, this article puts an end to Blanchard’s transphobic theories once and for all.
Talia Mae Bettcher, Ph.D.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FIRIpjIPC6UbnJAn2Avm/full#.Up1qP8RDuSo
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When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach About Sexual Orientation
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Abstract
In this article, Bettcher argues that sexual attraction must be re-conceptualized in light of transgender experience. In particular, Bettcher defends the theory of “erotic structuralism,” which replaces an exclusively other-directed account of gendered attraction with one that includes a gendered eroticization of self as an essential component. This erotic experience of self is necessary for other-directed gendered desire, where the two are bound together and mutually informing. One consequence of the theory is that the controversial notion of “autogynephilia” is rejected. Another consequence is that the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation is softened.
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Talia Bettcher (California State University, Los Angeles, Philosophy) just uploaded a paper on Academia.edu:
When Selves Have Sex: What The Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach About Sexual Orientation
from Tom Donohoe:
We are pleased to announce the release of the current issue of HIV Counselor PERSPECTIVES on HIV Stigma Today.
Despite our efforts as HIV service providers, stigma remains a significant barrier to HIV testing and treatment, fueling the epidemic. We hope that this issue will support you in your work with clients.
You can access the issue here:
http://www.ucsf-ahp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Perspectives_V21No3_HIV_Stigma_Today.pdf
In addition, we want to let you know about a training that AHP offers through the California State Office of AIDS, called ‘Assessing and Responding to HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination.’ This one-day training is a continuing education course designed for both new and experienced providers. For more information about the training, please contact Karin Hill, the HIV Prevention Training Coordinator at the California State Office of AIDS, at 916.319.9461, or Karin.Hill@cdph.ca.gov.
We are pleased to announce the release of the current issue of HIV Counselor PERSPECTIVES on HIV Stigma Today.
Despite our efforts as HIV service providers, stigma remains a significant barrier to HIV testing and treatment, fueling the epidemic. We hope that this issue will support you in your work with clients.
You can access the issue here:
http://www.ucsf-ahp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Perspectives_V21No3_HIV_Stigma_Today.pdf
In addition, we want to let you know about a training that AHP offers through the California State Office of AIDS, called ‘Assessing and Responding to HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination.’ This one-day training is a continuing education course designed for both new and experienced providers. For more information about the training, please contact Karin Hill, the HIV Prevention Training Coordinator at the California State Office of AIDS, at 916.319.9461, or Karin.Hill@cdph.ca.gov.
I am posting this because I am interested to learn about providers’ experiences with engaging Latino youth living with HIV into HIV care. I am interested in interviewing between 24 to 36 health care providers, such as primary care providers, mental health providers and case managers, who worked very closely with providing direct clinical services to Latino youth living with HIV. The purpose of these interviews is to learn about the strengths and challenges related to engagement in care for these youth. I also want to learn about ways that we can support youth during this process of engagement in care. These interviews will be for providers from selected urban/geographic egions (Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York). All interviews will be conducted in English. This study has been approved
Do you wish to participate?
You may e-mail me for more information about this study at dlemos@depaul.edu<mailto:dlemos@depaul.edu> or call me directly at (312) 593-2142. Please know that I will review the study with you, but the study is completely voluntary and confidential. I will not communicate to anyone else whether or not you choose to participate in the interview. Through these interviews we will learn about what facilitators and challenges Latino youth living with HIV are experiencing, however, we will not know that you specifically participated in the interview since it will be confidential. The interviews take about 45-60 minutes and that after the interview you would receive a $20 gift card as an incentive for volunteering your time.
Thank you and I hope that the information gathered will help us assist you in all the great you do!
Diana Lemos, MPH, PhD(c)
DePaul University Chicago, IL 60614 dlemos@depaul.edu (312) 593-2142“Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance” new article by Talia Bettcher is out!
November 22, 2013
“Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance” new article by Talia Bettcher is out!
Posted on November 22, 2013 by Susan Forrest
Click here to read the entire article, which will be available in Signs (Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter 2014).
Talia Mae Bettcher’s “Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance” reevaluates the two prevailing models of transsexuality—the wrong-body model and the transgender model—finding existing articulations of both unsatisfactory. Drawing from María Lugones’s “model of multiple meanings” and “recent literature on the transphobic representations of trans people as deceivers,” Bettcher reanimates the resistant potential of the wrong-body model from a transfeminist perspective, arguing that a reorganized version of this model has the capacity to resist the principle of reality enforcement and its centrality to “dominant ways of doing gender.”
Los Angeles County HIV Mental Health Task Force 
Written by Susan Forrest
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