FROM SCALPEL TO SCALE UP:

SHAPING PERCEPTIONS OF MALE CIRCUMCISION

Saturday, August 2, 2008

LINK TO CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

  Conference Goal: Define national or population specific frames to facilitate implementation of MC for HIV prevention

9:30 a.m.                     Keynote Speaker: Overview of Framing

Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Ph.D.
Director
Center for Communications and Community
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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For additional information on framing, please visit the Frameworks Institute website at: http://www.frameworksinstitute.org

10:45 a.m.                   Panel #1: Perceptions of Male Circumcision in Africa

Robert C. Bailey, Ph.D.  
University of Illinois at Chicago
School of Public Health
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Noah Kiwanuka, M.D., Ph.D.
Rakai Health Sciences Program
Entebbe, Uganda
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1:00 p.m.                    Panel #2: Perceptions of Male Circumcision for MSM in Latin America

Jorge Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H.  
Investigator
Investigaciones Médicas en Salud-INMENSA
Lima, Perú
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Jose Henrique Pilotto, M.D.
Instituto de Pesquisa Clinica Evandro Chagas - IPEC
Oswaldo Cruz  Foundation - FIOCRUZ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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2:30 p.m.                    Panel #3: Perceptions of Male Circumcision in Caribbean

Peter Figueroa, M.D., M.P.H.  
Chief Medical Officer
Ministry of Health
Kingston, Jamaica
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Brendan C. Bain, B.Sc., M.B., B.S., D.M., M.P.H.   
Community Health & Psychiatry-UWI-HIV/AIDS Response Programme (HARP)
University of West Indies
Kingston, Jamaica
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