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In this webinar, we were joined by Dr. James Kiarie, coordinator of the Human Reproduction Team at the World Health Organization. Dr. Kiarie presented new guidance from WHO on hormonal contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV. He also fielded questions from webinar participants.
This webinar builds on a March 10 webinar on this topic, which featured advocates and clinicians putting the guidance in context. A recording of that conversation is available here.
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD). As HIV prevention advocates, we find ourselves in new terrain when it comes to vaccine research—both in terms of scientific progress and the challenging political environment. We highlight these important issues in an HVAD webinar series leading up to and ending on May 18.
Recordings of the webinars available here:
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The HIV Vaccine Awareness Day 2017 webinar series kicked off with an overview of the Ad26/mosaic vaccine efficacy program from Janssen’s Maria Grazia Pau. This strategy is notable both for the science and for the active leadership from industry. Dr. Pau did a terrific job of explaining where the strategy fits into the broader vaccine field.
Recording Available: YouTube / Audio / Slides
This was one in a series of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day webinars. For details on all other calls, including recordings, visit here.
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Long-time vaccine researcher Barney Graham presented an excellent overview of the history and work of NIH’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC)—established two decades ago on the inaugural HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD) in 1997. Download the recording for an accessible overview of the HIV vaccine field, the connections between the work on HIV and other vaccines at the VRC and tips on what advocates and researchers should be calling for this HVAD.
Recording Available: YouTube / Audio / Slides
This was one in a series of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day webinars. For details on all other calls, including recordings, visit here.
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Dr. Fatima Laher, protocol co-chair of HVTN 702, provides an overview of the first HIV vaccine efficacy trial in seven years. Her presentation looks at the history, starting with partial success of RV144 in 2009, and talks about the role HVTN 702 as the field advances toward an effective vaccine.
Recording: YouTube / Audio / Slides
This was one in a series of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day webinars. For details on all other calls, including recordings, visit here.
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Where: Senate Hart Office Building – Room 902
When: Noon − 5pm
Additional details: Lunch will be served
For information, contact [email protected] or 571-286-5950.
Topics will include HIV/AIDS and the opioid epidemic, aging with HIV/AIDS, the national security implications of epidemics, and the need for cutting-edge research and services to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Speakers include:
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Dr. Lynn Morris, head of HIV Virology at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, provided an overview of antibody research for HIV prevention. She laid out the current landscape; provided a glimpse of what is to come in this dynamic field; talked about where antibody work fits in the larger field of prevention research; and described how the Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) studies – ongoing proof-of-concept trials of the broadly neutralizing antibody VRC01 – might advance HIV prevention.
This was the fourth in our series of HIV Vaccine Awareness Day webinars. For details on the full series, visit avac.org/hvad.
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For more information, including the At-A-Glance and full program, click here.
Where:
Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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The South African AIDS Conference (SA AIDS) took place June 13-15 at the International Convention Centre in Durban. SA AIDS is an energizing, biennial conference that brings together a cross-section of the people and organizations sustaining the HIV/AIDS movement in South Africa.
This year’s theme, The Long Walk to Prevention: Every Voice Counts, comes at a critical time for HIV research and rollout in South Africa. In a time of both great uncertainty, but also of exciting dynamism in the prevention field, AVAC is thrilled to see the conference focusing on this essential component of a comprehensive AIDS response.
We gathered a full roadmap of prevention research oriented events and presentations. Download our roadmap here, and the full conference program here.
AVAC posted live updates from the conference on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Blogs were posted on the WhatsUpHIV blog. The conference was on Twitter at @SAAIDS2017 and used the hashtag #SAAIDS2017.
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From the conference website:
Changing Faces, Changing Spaces is a Pan African Conference that brings together human rights activists and organizations, health and legal professionals, allies and donor partners from across Africa and beyond, undertaking and supporting African sex worker and LGBTIGNC activism. We deliberate, strategize and share the experiences that impact our movements. It is unique in the sense that it is a conference conceptualized and planned by a task force comprised by activists from the LGBTI and sex worker movements in Africa.