Safer Sex Campaign Launch Party

The HIV Working Group is launching its safer sex campaign this weekend at Town Friday and Saturday evenings.

The party will feature video from the new website, condom demonstrations, and FUKITs galore!

Join the HIV Working Group as it launches its new campaign!

Alpha Drugs Survival Forum VI

Alpha Drugs invites you to the latest presentation in their Survival Forum Lecture Series: HIV Update: New Treatment Options with an Emphasis on HIV Prevention presented by Dr. Michael Pistole, HCV/HIV Specialist.

This event takes place Wednesday May 27,at the Hotel Palomar (The Phillips Balroom), 2121 P St NW Washington, DC. Free Admission. Dinner Served. Registration takes place from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM. The Lecture and Dinner takes place from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

Sponsored by alphadrugs and PROTOMEDS INTERNATIONAL LLC

RSVP and Information Contact: leigh@alphadrugs.com or 202.265-5757

Follow Fight HIV in DC on Twitter

You can now follow Fight HIV in DC on Twitter. To see our tweets, visit: www.twitter.com/fighthivindc.

Want to be part of the conversation? Just add #hivindc to your tweets to share information on HIV/AIDS in DC or add @fighthivindc to your tweets to have them appear on our twitter feed.

Montgomery County Residents Needed

The Montgomery County School Board is looking for folks with an HIV background to serve on their Family Life and Human Development Committee for the next two years.
If interested, folks should contact:

Diane S. Watts
Office of the Deputy Superintendent of Schools
Montgomery County Public Schools
850 Hungerford Drive, Room 129
Rockville, MD 20850
301-279-3126

2009 Concert for Life May 15th

2009 Concert for Life
Friday, May 15th

Pre-concert VIP reception at 6:30 P.M. and Concert at 8:00 P.M.
Foundry United Methodist Church 16th and P St

Proceeds from this event benefit local HIV service organizations. For more information, please visit: http://concertforlife.org/

Free Training in Motivational Interviewing at Prevention Works!

Training in Motivational Interviewing
Wednesday, May 20th, 10am-4pm
Prevention Works!
2501 Benning Rd NE

This training is free!! Spaces are limited!!! Please sign-up now!!!!!

If you would like to attend this event, please respond asap via email to Mary Beth Levin mlevin@preventionworksdc.org

This is the third in our series of monthly trainings facilitated by technical experts from the Harm Reduction Coalition in New York.

The description is as follows: “Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative approach to working with people experiencing negative consequences from substance use and other challenging behaviors. It is a style of counseling that helps the person develop a schema about the positive and negative effects of their behavior, which facilitates readiness for change. Participants will learn MI techniques such as reflective listening, delivering feedback, summarizing, decisional balancing, and developing change plans. Strategies for translating MI principals in action will be discussed (e.g. expressing empathy, developing discrepancy, avoiding argument, and dealing with resistance). This session will also focus on the use of ambivalence in the counseling process and strategies for increasing motivation, self-efficacy, and optimism. This workshop will utilize case examples, role-plays, and peer feedback as methods to incorporate new skills learned.”

People to Know: David Catania

David Catania is an at-large member of the DC City Council. Councilmember David Catania chairs the Committee on Health and serves on the Committee on Finance and Revenue and the Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation. As Chairman of the Committee on Health, Councilmember Catania oversees the Department of Health, Department of Mental Health and a number of health-related boards and commissions.

Find out more. Visit the: David Catania Squidoo Page.

HOPE DC / DCYPS Social May 16th

HOPE DC and DC Young POZ socials will hold their May social event on Saturday May 16th starting at 8:00 PM. For address and details contact hope@hopedc.org or call 202 466-5783. The monthly socials are friendly social gathering for those living with HIV (the HIV-positive and those who care for or about them) in the greater Washington/Baltimore area.

The Socials are held in individual homes in DC, MD, or VA, typically once or twice a month, usually on a Saturday evening, bringing together 30 to 45 primarily single gay males.

Although the socials are intended primarily for HIV+ gay men, all are welcome.

People to Know: Shannon Hader

Dr. Shannon Hader is the current Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration within the DC Department of Health. Until her appointment by Mayor Fenty, she was on detail from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to the Department of State in the District of Columbia as the Senior Scientific Advisor for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). She focused on starting up the Public Health Evaluation Initiative for the $15 billion worldwide program which will inform evidence-based, cost-effective HIV/AIDS programming around the globe.

To find out more, visit the Dr. Shannon Hader Squidoo Page