GPP @ 10

A decade ago, UNAIDS and AVAC published the Good Participatory Practice Guidelines for Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials (GPP). Created to provide a consistent global standard for stakeholder engagement across the research life-cycle, GPP has emerged as a point of reference for how to engage stakeholders. It has also given rise to a robust community of practice.

After ten years of implementation, AVAC offers a look back at GPP and a vision for its future — and we explain why GPP’s true potential lies in the hands not just of research groups, but of civil society, trials participants, and an array of stakeholders in the research endeavor.

Px Wire July-December 2018, Vol. 11, No 3

As 2018 winds down, we’re struck by the many moments, and movements, in the past year that have depended on listening, without bias and also without loss of conviction. In that spirit, our year-end edition of Px Wire offers 10 questions for activists to pose, with curiosity and conviction, in 2019. What answers do you want, what do you hear, what needs to happen next?

HIV Prevention Research & Development Investments 2017: Investing to end the epidemic

This annual accounting of funding for biomedical HIV prevention research tracks trends and identifies gaps in investment. In 2017, reported funding for HIV prevention R&D decreased by 3.5 percent (US$40 million) from the previous year, falling to US$1.13 billion (Figure 2). This is the fifth consecutive year of decreasing annual investment, with 2017 levels representing the lowest funding since 2005.

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AVAC Report 2018: No Prevention, No End!

AVAC’s 2018 annual state of the field report, No Prevention, No End! looks at today’s prevention crisis and offers context, analysis and strategy to turn that crisis around.

Global Investment in HIV Cure Research and Development in 2017

In 2014, the HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Resource Tracking Working Group and AVAC began a collaboration with the International AIDS Society’s (IAS) Towards an HIV Cure initiative to review and allocate grants towards HIV cure research and analyze data on global funding. The working group released a report in July 2018, Global Investment in HIV Cure Research and Development in 2017: After Years of Rapid Growth Funding Increases Slow.

The Stories of HIV Vaccines in 2018—From science to stakeholder engagement

This four-pager explores stories about stakeholder engagement in the current suite of efficacy trials as well as stories around global support for vaccine research in the age of an expanded HIV prevention landscape.

Px Wire April-June 2018, Vol. 11, No. 2

In the new issue of Px Wire, AVAC gives our take on this year’s PEPFAR process for establishing the Country Operational Plans (COPs). These plans define what work will be done with PEPFAR money at the country level and how that work will be evaluated in each of the 63 countries that receive PEPFAR money.

Deprioritizing Women’s Lives in 2017

This short excerpt from our AVAC Report 2017 contains two stories: an update on hormonal contraception and HIV risk, including what to look out for in 2018, and an explanation of the damage caused by the Trump Administration’s expanded Global Gag Rule, preventing any organization receiving US global health funding from advocating for abortion as a family planning method.

Px Wire January-March 2018, Vol. 11, No. 1

In this issue of Px Wire, we take a hard look at a host of major milestones coming up toward ambitious global targets for ending the epidemic. We also include detailed infographics on showing the status of oral PrEP rollout in the countries where trial sites are located, explaining the demographics of Africa’s “youth bulge” and its implications for the global response and more.

What’s the State of the Field? AVAC Report 2017

On the eve of World AIDS Day 2017, AVAC published its annual report on the state of the field. AVAC Report 2017: Mixed Messages and How to Untangle Them is a must-read for anyone tracking the progress of HIV prevention around the world. In this month’s episode of Px Pulse, AVAC’s Director of Strategy & Content Emily Bass shares highlights from the report and calls for action on the unfinished work of scaling up prevention.