RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities
November 12-15, 2000
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Scientific Presentations
Tuesday, November 14, 2000
Afternoon Session

HIV/AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases

Invited Speakers

BIOMEDICAL MEANS FOR PREVENTING
SEXUAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV
Jeffrey Lawrence, Ph.D.
Weill Medical College
of Cornell University

PROGRESS IN HIV-1 VACCINE DEVELOPMENT
Julie McElrath , M.D., Ph.D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Oral Presentations
(click on titles for abstracts)

• HIV-Positive Orphan Children in Puerto Rico
  Dr. Agnes A. Rivera

• Patterns and incidences of primary drug resistance mutations among HIV-1 positive Puerto Ricans under treatment
  Dr. Nayra Rodriquez

• Survival of AIDS patients according to injecting drug use in a cohort of Puerto Rican AIDS patients
  Dr. Diana M. Fernandez

• Outcome of HIV+ patients undergoing open heart surgery
  Dr. Rosalyn P. Scott

• The impact of a culturally sensitive HIV prevention intervention for Mexican American women in Houston, Texas
  Dr. E. James Essien

• HIV prevention for indigenous people of the Amazon basin
  Dr. J. Gary Linn

• HIV sexual risk related behaviors among university students in Puerto Rico:1999
  Dr. Myriam Velez-Galvan

• Patterns of T-cell responses to HCV epitopes differentiate active HCV cases from “immune HCV
  Dr. Wanda Rivera

• Hepatitis C genotype and viral load in HIV/AIDS patients who are intravenous drug users
  Dr. Eddy Rios-Olivares

• Development of dengue 2 envelope expression vector for DNA immunization
  Dr. Idaliz Martinez

• An evaluation of the dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever surveillance system in Puerto Rico
  Dr. John Hayes

• Dengue 3 in Puerto Rico, 1998-1999: re-introduction after 20 years
  Dr. Jose G. Rigau-Perez

• Reconstructuring population history with JC virus: Amerinds, Spanish, and Africans in the ancestry of modern-day Puerto Ricans
  Dr. Richard Yanagihara