HIV/AIDS Experts Available at Penn Nursing for World AIDS Day

Newswise — Experts in HIV/AIDS prevention at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing are available to talk with media for stories on World AIDS Day, which is on December 1.

Christopher Lance Coleman, PhD, MPH, RN, is an expert in HIV risk-related behaviors in African American men. He co-authored "Dangerous Intimacy: Ten African American Men with HIV," a collection of unscripted biographies on living with HIV. Dr. Coleman was nurse manager at Our House, the first AIDS hospice in Oregon, which still serves people with HIV/AIDS.

Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, RN, is a ground-breaking researcher in sex education and HIV/AIDS prevention. Her work on how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through communicating with teens in their own language using clues from their own culture has attracted tens of millions of dollars in federal research funding and has made her an HIV-prevention expert through work with the United Nations. Her curriculum has been adopted and replicated in other countries and her work continues in the U.S., South Africa, Jamaica, and elsewhere.

Anne Teitelman, PhD, CRNP, focuses on HIV/AIDS risk in teen girls, particularly young African American women, who are among the fastest growing population of new HIV cases in the United States. Her pivotal research has found the conversation on safe sex should begin with a discussion of healthy versus abusive partner relationships. “Those who are sexually active are at the highest risk for intimate partner abuse,” says Dr. Teitelman. “For teens to practice safe sex, they need to first understand the different types of partner abuse and how abuse undermines safe sex practices.”