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The webinar will explore whether shifts in the US government’s funding is a setback or an opportunity to rethink Africa’s reliance on Western aid.
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The University of the Witwatersrand‘s Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics presented a webinar featuring:
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In the summer of 2023, PrEP4All, AVAC, and HIVMA launched the #SaveHIVFunding campaign in response to an unprecedented proposal in the US House of Representatives to cut $767M in federal HIV funding. Securing emergency funds from the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA), and several national HIV partner organizations, the campaign generated millions of social media impressions through a press conference at the US Capitol, as well as online community mobilization and ad buys. Thousands of letters were sent to Congressional representatives asking that they do whatever they can to save HIV funding.
Ultimately, the defense of these critical programs was successful, and all $767M in proposed cuts were removed from the final FY24 spending bill. For FY25, new cuts were proposed in the House, and PrEP4All, AVAC, and HIVMA relaunched the #SaveHIVFunding campaign. Although we have yet to see the final outcome of our efforts as Congress is still debating funding issues, we have once again partnered with 120 organizations and generated thousands of petition signatures representing all fifty states. Far more of this sort of advocacy–with the capacity to rapidly plan, fund, and deploy responses to urgent threats–will be required in a new political environment that is rapidly changing and hard to predict.
Join Funders Concerned about AIDS for a discussion on the major threats being faced by the HIV field at the federal level, plans to expand the #SaveHIVFunding campaign, and how you can support this work to defend federal funding to end the HIV epidemic.
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Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AVAC
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Jenny Collier, Collier Collective
Michael Chancley, Communications and Mobilization Manager, PrEP4All
Noelle Esquire, US Portfolio Lead, Elton John AIDS Foundation
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Join AVAC, COMPASS and other partners to update CCMs on the PEPFAR freeze.
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This webinar has been cancelled because funding was pulled by the new US administration. Follow critical developments in US policies and their impact on global health via our new newsletter. Learn more here.
Join the IMPT and guest speakers from AVAC and Population Council for a discussion on the dual prevention pill (DPP)—a single pill that combines oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and oral contraception (OC) to prevent HIV and pregnancy. If approved, the DPP will be the first multi-purpose prevention technology (MPT) to be marketed since condoms.
The discussion will include real-time learnings to inform the broader MPT field on the DPP’s regulatory approval process, acceptability study results in South Africa and Zimbabwe, implementation updates, and lessons learned.
There will be a Q&A session following the presentations.
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The 32nd annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) that took place from March 9–12 in San Francisco, CA convened researchers, advocates and others under drastically altered circumstances, as the new US Administration’s assault on global health and research devastates the HIV response. Foreign aid programs are frozen, US agencies championing science and global health are being dismantled, and US leadership around the world is receding at a critical moment.
The CROI Community Liaisons, AVAC and the European AIDS Treatment Group organized a series of daily Community Breakfast Clubs which were open to all. These live webinars featured researchers and advocates exploring some of the most consequential science and discussions from CROI.
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The inaugural edition of the African Workshop on HIV & Women will take place in hybrid format on 27 – 28 February 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya.
The time zone that will be used for this meeting is East Africa Time (EAT). If you need to convert the times to your timezone, this website might be of interest to you: www.WorldTimeBuddy.com.
This exciting new initiative is a regional workshop paired to the annual “International Workshop on HIV & Women”. It is an outstanding opportunity for both local and international healthcare providers, researchers, government, industry, and community representatives to discuss and further increase their knowledge on the issues related to HIV and women living in Africa.
The primary purpose of this workshop is to support changes that will provide a better quality of life for women living with HIV and reduce HIV transmissions in the region.
The format of the workshop enables attendees to learn from renowned HIV experts, discuss challenges, gaps, and opportunities for further learning and research. The debates and roundtables are an especially important vehicle to discuss issues and challenge dogma.
The workshop also provides a forum for early-career investigators to present their research and to personally meet with experts they view as mentors and inspiration for their work.
The meeting organizers hope this workshop will catalyze forming a community, where attendees continue to participate yearly and form valuable relationships and partnerships that lead to collaborative projects and positive changes.
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HPTN 091, the I Am study, evaluated the impact of a multicomponent HIV prevention strategy to increase the uptake and adherence of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among transgender women. The strategy included HIV prevention services, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and peer health navigation.
This webinar featured Dr. Tonia Poteat, study co-investigator, who will review the study findings and discuss implications.
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This webinar featured Portuguese and Spanish translation thanks to HPTN.
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Join AVAC’s Jessica Salzwedel on Instagram Live as she breaks down one strategy being explored in HIV cure research.
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Forty years into the epidemic, people are still seeking accurate, reliable information about anal play that isn’t just about HIV and STI prevention. They want to understand how to engage in ways that maximize pleasure and reduce harms beyond infectious disease. Often, they end up encountering harmful myths rather than facts, and then learn by ‘trial and error’.
This 90-minute webinar is appropriate for HIV and STI clinicians, behavioral health workers, social workers, case managers, peers and anyone else with a responsibility for delivering or referring to HIV services like treatment, PrEP, testing and support services.
Participants learned the rationale for why addressing anal pleasure and health is essential in HIV service settings as well as ways to respond to frequently asked questions, including via a new client- and worker-facing website.
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