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SWIRL student scholars to present at 2021 Florida HIV CPR Conference

USF School of Social Work

Two of our current SWIRL Student Scholars who were supported by the Florida Education Fund (FEF) during the 2020-2021 academic year have received notice that their abstracts submitted to the Florida HIV CPR Conference 2021: Connecting Community, Providers, and Researchers (Virtual) have been accepted. The 2021 Florida HIV CPR Conference is hosted by Florida Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research and USF Health.

Iliana Ruiz and Kira Pettus, both undergraduate students in social work will present "Gender Differences in Experience of Sexual Violence, HIV Knowledge, and Rape Empathy in a Community Sample of Urban Haiti." We are grateful for Dr. Jerome Galea's recommendation that our students submit an abstract.

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