Published Date: 09/13/2024
Expiration Date: 09/15/2025
Selected by attendees and the program planning committee as one of the best sessions of the ACTHIV® 2024 conference for the frontline HIV care team, this activity will focus on identifying causes of death that are direct outcomes of poor mental health among PWH, and provide guidance for the care team to better enable them to address mental health problems as a component of all HIV-related prevention, care and treatment approaches.
Francine Cournos, MD, is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology) at Columbia University and Co-Principal Investigator of the Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center. She has worked at the interface of HIV infection and mental illness since 1983, both locally and globally, in the areas of clinical care, education, research, policy, and guidelines. In the course of these activities, Dr. Cournos has published more than 180 articles and book chapters.
