Save the Date!  HIV/STD/TB/Hepatitis Symposium and Hepatitis C Training Workshop: April 10 - 12, 2012

Save the Date! The 2012 HIV/STD/TB/Hepatitis Symposium will be held April 11 and 12, 2012, at the Radisson Inn in Bismarck,  N.D. A pre-conference hepatitis C training workshop will be held at the Radisson on April 10, 2012.

The symposium will include both plenary and breakout sessions, and the following topics will be presented:

• HIV/STDs/TB/Viral hepatitis in North Dakota

• Support group development

• New hepatitis C treatments

• Sex, drugs and HIV

• Cultural differences of TB clients

• Aging of HIV patients

• Rapid hepatitis C testing

• MSM partner services

• Advances in TB

• Expedited partner therapy in North Dakota

• Men’s sexual health

The audience for the symposium includes all health-care workers, social workers and addiction counselors who provide services to individuals with HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis or viral hepatitis. The symposium will provide an opportunity to receive education and resources to improve the capacity to provide these services.

Prior to the symposium, there will be a hepatitis C training workshop on April 10, 2012, at the Radisson Inn in Bismarck, N.D. This training is targeted to health educators, HIV/STD counselors and testers, medical providers, substance abuse counselors, case managers, support group leaders, patients and other health professionals who will provide education, support and advocacy for people and populations affected by hepatitis C.

The topics presented at the hepatitis C training workshop will include:

• The liver.

• Hepatitis C transmission and prevention.

• Diagnostic tools.

• Symptoms and disease progression.

• Disease management.

• Treatments.

• Complementary medicine.

Continuing educations credits are being requested for the HIV/STD/TB/Hepatitis Symposium and the hepatitis C training workshop from the North Dakota Board of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Addiction Counseling Examiners and the North Dakota Board of Social Workers.  Registration forms and additional information on the trainings being offered will soon be available at http://www.ndhealth.gov/disease/Hepatitis/Training/HepC.htm. 

For more information, please contact Julie Wagendorf or Sarah Weninger at 701.328.2378 or 800.472.2180. 

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