The National Centre in HIV Social Research will be holding the 11th Social Research Conference on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases on 8-9 April 2010 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
‘evolving knowledge & practice’
The last decade has been marked by significant developments in scientific knowledge, biomedical technologies and research methods. We have seen improvements in the treatment of HIV, STIs[Sexually Transmissible (or Transmitted) Infection] Infections spread by the transfer of organisms from person to person during sexual contact. Also called venereal disease (VD) (an older public health term) or sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). and hepatitis C and, as a result, improvements in quality of life and life expectancy. But less is known about the ways in which these developments may have shifted understandings around risk and prevention, or what effects they might have on living with a chronic illness or on drug use. How is evolving and sometimes conflicting knowledge put into practice by affected communities and by the sectors working with these communities? What risk reduction practices and treatment strategies are currently recommended or should/can be recommended to communities and why?
Speakers are invited to explore how affected communities make sense of and negotiate evolving knowledges and biomedical technologies and their potential impacts on everyday sexual, drug use and health management practices. We also invite discussion of how researchers, educators, policy makers, health workers and the legal system respond to these scientific developments. We particularly encourage cross-disciplinary discussions of knowledge and practice in different cultural and sexual contexts.
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