Margarita Breakfast Club Session 3: The Data Gap: Filling in the Missing Perspectives on Women and Children in HIV Research

Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00–8:00am PT

AVAC, the CROI Community Liaison Subcommittees, European AIDS Treatment Group, and other partners hosted virtual Margarita Breakfast Clubs (MBCs) for the 2023 CROI meeting. Speaker details, recording, and resources for the third 2023 MBC below.

  • Moderator: Dawn Averitt, The Well Project, Women’s Research Initiative on HIV/AIDS
  • Speakers: Professor Lee Fairlie, WITS RHI, Imelda Mahaka, Pangaea Zimbabwe AIDS Trust, Jane Kabami, Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration Uganda

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Margarita Breakfast Club Session 2: Moving Forward: Upcoming Strategies on STI Prevention

Tuesday, February 21 at 7:00–8:00am PT

AVAC, the CROI Community Liaison Subcommittees, European AIDS Treatment Group, and other partners hosted virtual Margarita Breakfast Clubs (MBCs) for the 2023 CROI meeting. Speaker details, recording, and resources for the second 2023 MBC below.

  • Moderator: Jim Pickett, AVAC
  • Speakers: Dr. Jean-Michel Molina, University of Paris Cité, Jonathan Ayala, NMAC, CROI Community Educator Scholar

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Margarita Breakfast Club Session 1: Moving Forward: Upcoming Strategies on STI Prevention

Tuesday, February 20 at 7:00–8:00am PT

AVAC, the CROI Community Liaison Subcommittees, European AIDS Treatment Group, and other partners hosted virtual Margarita Breakfast Clubs (MBCs) for the 2023 CROI meeting. Speaker details, recording, and resources for the second 2023 MBC below.

  • Moderator: Ntando Yola, Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation
  • Speakers: Dr. Susan Buchbinder, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Richard Jefferys, Treatment Action Group

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COMPASS Africa Newsletter (February 2023)

Year End Newsletter

In this issue: five end of the year SPARC stories, eight topline findings from the coalition health score card, in-country strategy labs and the all COMPASS strategy lab.

Decolonizing Global Public Health – What Will it Take to Dismantle Racism and White Supremacy?

Thursday, February 16 at 9:00am ET / 2:00 pm GMT
Moderator: John Meade, AVAC
Featured speakers: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, University of Global Health Equity; Tori Cooper, Human Rights Campaign; Tian Johnson, African Alliance; Dr. Peter Kilmarx, Fogarty International Center
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Ready, Set, CROI 2023 – Prepare for the 30th Year of CROI

Monday, February 13, 2023

Featured CROI Community Liaisons, CROI 2023 program co-chairs, IAS-USA, AVAC, The Choice Agenda, and other community partners and researchers and designed to help CROI registrants prepare for this exciting, intense and sometimes overwhelming meeting.
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Trans Inclusion: Charting HIV Research into the Future: A Manifesto and Scorecard for Advocates and Researchers

Thursday, January 26, 2023

This webinar featured Leigh Ann van der Merwe — Founder and Director: Social, Health & Empowerment Feminist Collective of Transgender Women of Africa; Brian Minalga — AVAC consultant, Trans Inclusion Initiative; and Cindra Feuer — AVAC Senior Program Manager: Partnerships & Capacity Strengthening.

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Participant Application Form

Download the application here or click the link to the right of this page. Please note, you will need to download and fill the application on a laptop or desktop computer. It is not possible to use a mobile phone to fill out the application.

The Advocacy Navigator is an AVAC initiative combining training and mentorship to young and emerging advocates in the field of HIV prevention advocacy. The program involves three months of coursework and project development, followed by three months of “implementation” whereby Navigators implement all or a portion of their Community Advocacy Project plan with the support of their mentor. More information at www.avac.org/navigator.

Celebrating the Role of Communities: A focus on choice in HIV prevention

Presentation given by Rosemary Mburu, Executive Director of WACI Health, on World AIDS Day 2022 describing her organization and providing a short overview of the field.

ViiV’s Community Stakeholder Engagement Strategy for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2022-2024)

ViiV’s 2022-2024 strategy for community stakeholder engagement in low and middle income countries pledges a commitment to Good Participatory Practice Guidelines and more.