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In this webinar you will learn about what the HIV/AIDS epidemic looks like in the Southeastern United States, who is affected, and concrete steps you can take to make a difference.  Southern states have seen a dramatic influx of new Latino residents in recent years.  These new immigrants are frequently isolated from healthcare systems.  It is therefore imperative that we as providers inform and engage policymakers and encourage them to allocate resources for HIV/AIDS in the communities that are most affected.  The Webinar will address the formation of the Southern HIV/AI

Free CME/CE! Live webinars with Q/A period!

Keeping Mobile Patients in Care Across and Between Borders | Focus on HIV, STD, TB, Addiction, & Family Planning Concerns
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 
(This webinar is offered at two different times. Each webinar is the same and will be 1.5 hours long. Webinar will be conducted via toll-free number and Adobe Connect)

Webinar 1: 12 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Central / 10 a.m. Mountain / 9 a.m. Pacific

Webinar 2: 12 p.m. Pacific / 3 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Central / 1 p.m. Mountain

Migrant Health Centers are the early pioneers of the Health Center Movement. The Migrant Health Program that was written into the Public Health Service Act of 1962 set forth new thinking in this country that health care is a basic human right. It was the precursor of major social change in a decade of the 60’s when the nation awakened to the poverty and hardship of a population for outside the mainstream.

In 2012, we will present awards to the following individuals for their contributions in the quest for farmworker justice:

Tropical medicine has typically been concerned with diseases that originate in warm, tropical climates, often associated with resource poor health care environments, and largely neglected by traditional medical training and clinical practice. In the Western concept, tropical disease is often associated with poverty, civil strife and migration.

Event Overview
The Congress is organized by URMPM and aims to improve and promote the science and technology of better safety in both risk and crisis management. The congress covers a wide range of topics such as patient safety, medication safety, infectious disease outbreak, disaster management, food safety, environmental health & safety, and other related subjects.