Heard about PrEP & Truvada? Not sure if it’s right for you? Not sure how to get it with or without insurance? Let’s clear up some rumors and get the facts! Our panel of experts brought people up to speed on the latest information, facts, controversies, and answered burning questions.
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NY PrEP Update – What You Need To Know in 2015
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Women and HIV Prevention Research: Designing, testing and marketing products to improve adherence
The fourth webinar in AVAC’s Research & Reality series, a year-long dialogue about prevention research and advocacy, this call provided a forum to learn about and discuss key issues around women and the HIV prevention agenda, including challenges around marketing of and adherence to new prevention options.
View the full webinar here.
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Unpacking the New CDC Guidelines on PrEP for HIV Prevention
On May 14, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the US Public Health Service released new clinical guidelines on using daily oral TDF/FTC (also known as Truvada) as PrEP for HIV prevention. This type of guideline is used by the US government to set national norms for health providers. It is the first such national guideline issued anywhere for PrEP use. Representatives from the CDC provided an overview of the guidelines and answer questions about their content and implications. This was followed by a moderated discussion.
Watch the full webinar here.
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Pleasure, Protection, Love, Lust, And Listening to Communities: The Future of HIV Prevention is Here
A webinar in memory of HIV prevention pioneer and revolutionary Jeff McConnell. A respected and passionate sociologist, Jeff (who passed away at the age of 49 this past February) was also a gay man living with HIV, and his identity was an important component of the science he conducted. His brilliant, human-touch research on gay men’s sex, sexuality, and various prevention methodologies involving treatment and PrEP was groundbreaking, visionary, and way ahead of most of us.
Influential on a global scale, Jeff’s work has given us powerful insight into social and sexual networks – and love and pleasure – as important, necessary components of HIV prevention efforts. Panelists paid tribute and memorialized Jeff by reminding us of his pivotal contributions to science and sharing anecdotes.
They also discussed where we are today and the future of HIV prevention.
Watch the full flash webinar here.
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What are the HIV prevention needs of people who use drugs in Eastern Europe?
Hosted jointly by NAM and AVAC, the second webinar in the 2014 series covered harm reduction, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and Hepatitis C prevention in people who use drugs, with news from relevant studies and new initiatives in Europe.
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PrEP @ 2 years—and still counting women in…
The US Women & PrEP Working Group, SisterLove and AVAC hosted a webinar marking the two-year anniversary of the FDA licensing of Truvada as PrEP in the US.
This webinar provided an opportunity to share updates and resources in the field and discussed how far we’ve moved in getting women involved in the rollout of PrEP. The webinar reviewed what we know and don’t know about women’s motivations and barriers to consider daily oral PrEP as an intervention. Speakers included Karen Hoover from the US CDC, Judy Auerbach from the University of California at San Francisco, Alan McCord from Project Inform, and moderator, Dazon Dixon Diallo of SisterLove and the US Women & PrEP Working Group.
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Results of the iPrEx open-label extension (iPrEx OLE): PrEP uptake, sexual practices and HIV incidence
Get details on the iPrEx OLE study from principal investigator Robert Grant, who presented the data at AIDS 2014. The first open-label PrEP study to publish results, these data from iPrEx OLE begin to answer a number of questions on PrEP use in the “real world”.
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PrEP me, please: Understand PrEP’s role in women’s health & safer conception
Presenters:
- Shannon Weber, MSW, Director, Perinatal HIV Hotline, Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center
- Erika Arron, MSN, CRNP Assistant Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine
- Caroline Watson, volunteer outreach for BAPAC and PRO Men
- Dazon Dixon Diallo, MPH, Founder and President, SisterLove, Inc. (Moderator)
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PrEP Rally 4: What does PrEP mean for women?
A New-York based panel discussion featured doctors, PrEP users, activists, focusing on what PrEP means for women.
Guest Panelists:
Lynette Ford, MSW, GMHC
Jasmine, Woman currently using PrEP
Julie Lynn, Woman currently using PrEP
Poppy, Woman who was on PrEP when trying to get pregnant
Kimberleigh J. Smith, Harlem United Community AIDS Center
Shobha Swaminathan, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Rutgers, The State University Of New
Jersey New Jersey Medical School
Guest Moderator:
Terri L. Wilder, MSW, Mt. Sinai Institute for Advanced Medicine & ACT UP/NY Women’s Caucus
The discussion is free and all are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, email [email protected] or call (212) 367-1016. And spread the word! Flyer available for download below.
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PrEP: News from studies in Europe and elsewhere
The fourth webinar in our series addressed a range of topics in HIV prevention research, hosted jointly by NAM and AVAC, and looked at the current situation regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Europe and the US. Presenters discussed the ongoing IPERGAY study in France and the PROUD study in England, and reviewed progress in the NEXT-PrEP and demonstration studies in the US.
It also discussed the implications of the negative results of the recent VOICE trial. The presentations were followed by a question and answer session with our expert speakers.