Brief program reports requested for Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention's 2011 monograph on AIDS/STD prevention in rural America

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FYI… TO: NationalNetwork of Rural HIV/STD Prevention SpecialistsFROM: Bill Yarber, senior director, Rural Center for AIDS/STDPrevention (RCAP)DATE: May 26, 2010 RE: 2011 RCAP monographSUBMISSIONS SOLICITED FOR 2011 RCAP MONOGRAPHRCAP will be publishing itseighth monograph on AIDS/STD prevention in rural America in early 2011. To help inform rural HIV/STDprevention specialists about what others are doing, we will devote about one-halfof the monograph to brief reports of promising HIV/STD behavioral interventionprograms in rural communities, like those described in Chapter 7 BehavioralInterventions That Might Work of the RCAP publication, Tearing Down Fences:HIV/STD Prevention in Rural America. You can view a copy of FENCESon the RCAP website ( www.indiana.edu/~aids). This opportunity to describe a prevention program thatmight work in the monograph is open ONLY to programs not already described in FENCES. If you work in HIV/STDprevention in a rural community and have a promising HIV/STD behavioralintervention program that you would like to describe and possibly beincluded in the next RCAP monograph please consider submitting to RCAP (by July15, 2010) a one-half page abstract about your program. The directions arelisted below. The RCAP co-directors willreview all of the submitted abstracts and select about eight to ten to beincluded in the monograph. We will then invite the author(s) of theseabstracts to send in a more thorough program description (6-10 typed pages)that will be published in the monograph. Directions for abstractsubmission:1. submit atyped, one-half page description of the program and include it as an emailattachment or place it in the body of an email;2. includein the abstract: (1) title of the program, (2) intended audience and whereimplemented, (3) brief description of project and any evaluation, and (4)contact person(s) with contact information;3. submitto aids@... and place “RCAPmonograph†in email subject line. If an email is not possible, please fax to:812-855-3936;4. submitby July 15, 2010.RuralCenter for AIDS/STD Prevention Indiana University 801 East Seventh Street Bloomington, IN 47405-3085 (812)855-1718 voice (800)566-8644 (812)855-3717 fax aids@... www.indiana.edu/~aids