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PrEP, Sexual Health, and Recently Incarcerated Women

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Published Date: 11/15/2022

Expiration Date: 09/13/2024

CE Credit: CME:1

Description

This presentation will review the needs and resources available to women recently released from incarceration. It will increase participants’ knowledge about HIV and other STI risks of women recently released from incarceration, and will discuss strategies to address these problems.

Presenter(s)

Diane S. Morse,MD

Diane Morse, MD is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her work examines barriers and facilitators for justice-involved women (including Drug Treatment Court, probation, and re-entering from incarceration) for physical and mental healthcare and social services access as a means of addressing the totality of their needs to prevent reincarcertion and attain health. She has utilized efficacious intervention strategies such as those grounded in Self-Determination Theory; Trauma, Recovery and Empowerment; and Women on the Road to Health. She is also collaborating with larger local and national organizations to modify systems of incarceration. Her research has been supported by organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services organization.

Learning Objectives

Develop familiarity with the needs and resources available to women recently released from incarceration.
Increase knowledge regarding HIV and other STI risks of women recently released from incarceration.
Increase knowledge of strategies to address these problems.

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