Title:  Methamphetamines, MSM, & HIV

Description:  This webinar is a supplement to the National Core Curriculum recent work on Stimulants and their Impact on Brain and Behavior:  Best Practices and Approaches for Effective Treatment and Recovery.  This training focuses on MSM (men who have sex with men) and the connection with HIV and methamphetamines.  It presents epidemiology, reasons why methamphetamine use is prevalent in the MSM community and the effects of methamphetamines on HIV progression.

Goal:

1.  Increase knowledge & awareness of the correlation between methamphetamines and HIV, and the associated risk for particular demographic intersections

Objectives:

1.  Describe the confluence of HIV risk and prevalence of stimulant use, especially among MSM of color
2. Identify at least 3 reasons why methamphetamine use so prevalent, especially among MSM
3. List motivation for stimulant use from a bio-psycho-social  perspective
4. List the effects of methamphetamines on HIV progression
5. Describe the results of mixing methamphetamines and anti-retrovirals for HIV

Agenda:

1.  Epidemiology
2. Trauma and the correlation between trauma, HIV, and substance use disorders
3. ChemSex and reasons MSM use methamphetamines
4. Methamphetamines and the Brain
5. Methamphetamines and Anti-retrovirals
6. Best Practices

Methods:  lecture and inter-active chat sessions

Presenter: Mary McCarty- Arias

Thursday May 12, 2022

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM via Zoom - link provided upon registration.