Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 1:00-2:30PM EST / 10:00-11:30AM PST / 11:00AM-12:30PM MST / 6:00-7:30PM GMT / 7:00-8:30PM CET / 9:00-10:30PM IDT
Today’s International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in recognition of World AIDS Day observed globally on December 1st. The presenters will discuss, from their personal and professional perspectives, the intergenerational impact HIV has on families and the need for a person-centered HIV response. They demonstrate the importance of including people with HIV in determining and providing essential services to all people living with HIV globally.
Speakers:
Dr. Edouard Hazel
A former General Secretary of the Haitian American Physician Association, Dr. Edouard Hazel is a Clinical Epidemiologist, Board-certified internist, specialist in Infectious Diseases who served as HIV consultant for the United Nations Development Program, where he spearheaded Haiti’s 2002 applications to the UN Fund for Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV and to the US PEPFAR’s initiative. He strongly advocated against the US stigma against the Haitian community and the 1983 US FDA eight-year ban on blood donation by people of Haitian descent.
Marta Santiago
Marta Santiago is a Mexican-Puerto Rican health activist who was born and raised in the Midwest. She has a long history of fighting for equity for women and children and people of color who are affected by the HIV epidemic. She is the Chicago Community Advisory Board representative to the MACS WIHS Combined Cohort Study.
Henriette MUKANYONGA
Henriette MUKANYONGA, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis, worked as a senior counselor for Assistance Fund for Genocide Survivors (FARG) in Rwanda. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Kigali Independent University (ULK). She supported HIV/AIDS patients and coordinated the youth program at Women Equity Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx ) in KIgali. Currently, Henriette works at Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine (SARSSM) as Preventionist-Educator.
Dr. Mardge Cohen
Dr. Mardge Cohen is an internist with a long history of activism related to women’s health, health disparities, and fighting for high-quality-single-payer health care. In 1989, she founded the Women and Children HIV Program to provide comprehensive medical and psychosocial services to women, their partners, and children at a single site at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She has led multiple NIH research studies to better understand how HIV affects women and their children.
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli
A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder, Executive Director and Senior Representative to the United Nations of the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT); Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
