APHA Annual Meeting
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm:
PACT and PEER Center staff will be making a roundtable presentation of the training curricula for peers, entitled "Building the Capacity of HIV Peer Educators as part of Interdisciplinary Teams to meet the Needs of the Underserved". A Peer educator will discuss the successes and challenges encountered with training and strategies for sustaining the peer programs as part of HIV care. Techniques for evaluating the emerging role of peers in HIV care and preliminary results of a multisite evaluation exploring the impact of the peer training on participants’ knowledge and skills will be shared. View abstract